Golf Club Rentals: Find One That Fits to a Tee

Golfers click on a club that interests them and, almost as fast as you can say FedEx, it arrives.

You then get five days to try out the equipment -- on the range, on the course, anywhere. When those five days are up, you can return the club in a prepaid package, or apply the rental fee toward the purchase of the club.

"At this point, testing lots of clubs is something of a hobby for me," Jusick says. "As a golfer, I'm always interested in improving. But as a physics teacher, I'm also interested in the way technology works. This is a way to satisfy both of those interests in an efficient and cost-effective way."

Greener Pastures

Launched in 2006, GolfClubDemo is the brainchild of Larry Tedesco, a former professional golfer and Atlanta businessman whose own career has shifted from the green grass of the practice range to the digital links of the Internet.

The son of a firefighter, Tedesco grew up playing municipal golf in Connecticut -- a blue-collar kid in a blue-blood sport.

A turning point came when he landed a college golf scholarship at Furman University in South Carolina. His freshman roommate -- and golf teammate -- was Steven Spencer, whose father was head professional at Augusta National, home of the Masters and one of the most esteemed courses in the world.

"It was pretty surreal," Tedesco says. "Like a lot of kids, I'd grown up watching the tournament. And before you know it, I'm out there with the son of the head pro, getting a tour of the course on a cart."

After college, Tedesco played for several years on regional golf tours, but he grew weary of the travel and the skimpy paychecks. While in school, he'd worked at Augusta during Masters week, helping organize the warehouse-size quantities of merchandise on sale during the event. Now, with his competitive drive waning on the course, he returned to Augusta, this time to work as an assistant pro.