2020 Brand Perception Survey
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2020 Brand Perception Survey

2020 Brand Perception Survey

It has been nearly two years since we last asked you to take what we call the One Word Survey. As brand perception surveys go, it’s simple and doesn’t leave much room for nuance. It’s more a word association game than a deep introspection into your feels about the leading brands in golf. (We’ll do that one later).

Despite its simplicity, the results are compelling and never fail to capture the attention of the golf equipment industry.

Given the rollercoaster the industry has ridden through COVID and all of 2020, we thought it was time to do it again.

As we sift through the results, we’ll not only look at what you had to say this time around but we’ll take a closer look at how perceptions have changed over the three surveys in this series.

Which brands are trending up? Which brands are trending down? Those are the questions we hope to answer.

The Quick Details

For the sake of consistency, we haven’t changed the existing survey questions, though we have added two additional questions this time around. Some of the words are unquestionably positive; language that golf companies want consumers to associate with their brands. Other words are unquestionably negative; language golf brands prefer you to associate with their competitors.

As always, we’re not interested in how brands position themselves. We want to know what you think about the leading brands in the golf equipment market today.

Give us just a tiny amount of demographic information. Then, for each word presented, choose the brand you most associate with that word. We’ll share the results in a few weeks.

Thanks in advance for helping us out with this survey.

TAKE THE SURVEY

Click here to take the survey.

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Tony Covey

Tony Covey

Tony Covey

Tony is the Editor of MyGolfSpy where his job is to bring fresh and innovative content to the site. In addition to his editorial responsibilities, he was instrumental in developing MyGolfSpy's data-driven testing methodologies and continues to sift through our data to find the insights that can help improve your game. Tony believes that golfers deserve to know what's real and what's not, and that means MyGolfSpy's equipment coverage must extend beyond the so-called facts as dictated by the same companies that created them. Most of all Tony believes in performance over hype and #PowerToThePlayer.

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      Trusty rusty

      6 years ago

      I left more blank this year than in the past

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      Robert E

      6 years ago

      Love the survey, I had a little issue answering some of the questions . I do not classify companies as dishonest or hype as much as marketing. I think some companies adjust the look or looks of a clubs (drivers) and new language and call it new to sell them. As you guys have proven there is really no difference from year to year in clubs as far as performance . My vote is to buy what you like looking down at and get fitted to them.

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      Scott

      6 years ago

      I think golf equipment as a whole ( drivers ) are have gone as far as they can within the rule allowed by the USGA. Modern Irons go farther but they also have stronger lofts. my newer set the 6 iron was 26* loft my old irons it was 29* . You could only pick one answer and most of the questions there was one then one answer. .

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      mackdaddy9

      6 years ago

      I would like to have had an all of the above option.

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      Jason Phelps

      6 years ago

      Good job on the questionnaire. I understand many companies were not included in this that could have been. However, I also understand making questionnaires is really difficult. If you add too many options or make it too long, people get fatigued and you sacrifice your results. While there maybe room for growth by including more companies, what was included feels like we’ll see some accurate and telling results. Thanks!

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      Mike

      6 years ago

      I’m curious what will “win” most dishonest and/or deceptive. Tough question, because each brand is a company that sells golf clubs, which, when probably fitted, will work for some people. There are so many club & shaft combinations that I bet that if I had all the time in the world I could find a winning combo for all the brands shown. I think people will mark dishonest and/or deceptive for any brand they’ve had a bad experience with, and I think that’s the wrong way to do it. I had a totally worthless experience at club champion early this year, yet at no point did I feel they were dishonest or deceptive.

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      Jeff

      6 years ago

      Why is PXG included but DTC guys like Sub70, Oncore, Snell, New Level, TourEdge, etc. not? This would give a much more well-rounded view. I get wanting to compare year to year as you mentioned, but things change year to year as well in terms of who’s in the marketplace so that needs to be accounted for as well. If not adding these brands for 2020….when will you?

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      Kansas King

      6 years ago

      I have a feeling it is largely related to market share. Sub70, Ben Hogan, and other DTC manufacturers probably don’t even show up on the market share radar. It also appears they only included club manufacturers and didn’t include the ball only companies. Many MGS readers and anyone who is on the forum would be considered a golf enthusiast relative to the average golfer. Putting a low market share company like Sub70 or even Maltby may really skew the results and wouldn’t be representative of the actual market.

      I really like the DTC and custom club companies but they couldn’t come close to supplying the demands of the golf industry, even if they were all combined. The physical amount of product the large OEMs makes the DTC companies look like a drop in the bucket.

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      Mike

      6 years ago

      While I think this is a worthy endeavor in keeping with the theme I believe the result will be: DECEPTIVE

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      Dominic DeBellis

      6 years ago

      Thanks for giving us golf nuts a forum to voice our opinion and “verify” company claims with “real world” data. We very much appreciate the dedication!

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      Jeremy Ireland

      6 years ago

      What’s with the 1-answer responses for everything? Not going to get good survey results with this design, there should be at least availability to rank some brands against others.

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      Willie T

      6 years ago

      First time participating. Would like to say that if Honma had been included, I would have named them for a couple of the categories as well. All in all, good fun!

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      Joe Domill

      6 years ago

      Hi, everyone at golf spy did a great job during this tough year. Stay healthy and have a great new year.

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      Lou

      6 years ago

      Thank you to the Staff of MyGOLFSPY for all the hard work you have done in 2020!. Truly it was a difficult year for everyone but so happy to see you didnt allow a pandemic to keep you from delivering information to your followers! You guys are amazing and I want to wish you all, a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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      Mike

      6 years ago

      Second

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      Chet

      6 years ago

      I would have liked Homna to have been an option. I felt like I often wanted to answer Homna. Especially when it came to words like over-hyped or gimmicky.

      Just one man’s opinion.

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      David

      6 years ago

      100% agree!

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      Steve

      6 years ago

      Hey, to each his own, but for the record it’s “Honma”, not Homna. And I’m old enough to have hit a few shots with their tour blades back in the 80’s, and they were brilliant. Not the same company now, but like Wilson their legacy is real.

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