"This is the best packaged set I've ever, ever tested."
Rick Shiels Golf · 3.06M subs · Oct 2025 · Stix x Nicklaus Compete
Direct from Stix · No PGA Tour markup
Most golfers never break 90. So why are we all paying for tour gear?
You don't need workability and feedback — you need forgiveness, and a set that could make this the day. Pro-level clubs without the Tour-pro markup.
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P02 Perform
12 Club Set
Same clubs. Half the price. Order below.
Most complete sets are one-size-fits-all. Yours isn't. Dial in your dexterity, shaft flex, and length — the custom fit you'd normally only get buying clubs one at a time, built into a full set at less than half the price of the other guys.
P02 Perform
12 Club Set
With Bag
FJD
Current price: $3,057
from $195/mo
The math you came here to do
What "Tour Tax" actually pays for.
A premium-brand 14-club set at retail is roughly $4,500. Same bag from Stix is $1,499. The $3,000 difference isn't going into the clubheads — it's the Tour Tax. Here's where it lands.
OEM Cashflow · #1
PGA Tour endorsements.
Big OEMs pay top pros tens of millions a year to play their clubs. That cost is built into the retail price you pay at the pro shop.
OEM Cashflow · #2
Pro-shop wholesale margins.
Big OEMs sell wholesale to pro shops at roughly 50% off retail. The pro shop's margin is your markup.
OEM Cashflow · #3
Brand & apparel spend.
Big OEMs spend hundreds of millions on TV ads, branded apparel, and Tour event sponsorships. We spend ours on club components — heads, faces, shafts, grips.
Earned, not paid
The reviewers who matter — on Stix.
"The best player's distance iron for accuracy is a surprise — Stix Golf Compete Hollow Body."
MyGolfSpy · 2025 Most Wanted · 9.3 / 10 · Best for Accuracy + Best Value"I think I've found the best value package set of 2025."
Golf Monthly · Sam De'Ath · May 2025 · 4.8 / 5 · UK's oldest golf magazine, est. 1911
When you're cross-shopping
What you're choosing between.
Callaway
Strata Plus / Edge · $599.99+ at retail
Beginner kits priced to be replaced.
Strata Plus 14-piece is Callaway's $599 entry kit at PGA Tour Superstore — value-grade components, factory-assembled to a price, openly positioned for first-time golfers. First-bag economics: bought cheap, swapped out fast — not the bag you grow into.
Stix instead
Nicklaus Essentials 10 lands at $699 — Nicklaus-partnered build, MyGolfSpy Most Wanted putter head, the bag you keep playing.
TaylorMade
RBZ 2.0 11-piece set · $1,399.99–$1,499.99
TaylorMade's only adult complete set, at retail.
RBZ 2.0 is TaylorMade's single adult complete-set offering as of May 2026. Pricing runs higher for fewer clubs than ours because they're protecting retail-channel margins.
Stix instead
P02 Perform 12 lands $400 below RBZ 2.0 with more clubs and full customization.
MSRPs and channel verified as of May, 2026. Pricing references publicly stated prices. Specs vary brand-to-brand; we claim category parity at the build level, not head-for-head identity.
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