Golf copycats land in the roughUS golf equipment makers, backed by the Chinese authorities, are cracking down on illegal counterfeiters, writes Florian GimbelAsk any Shanghai taxi driver about the best golf equipment deals in town and he will almost certainly drop you off at a bustling retail complex known as Shanghai Mart.
Yet after making your way up to the top floor, where there are golf stores galore, you might be in for an unpleasant surprise, because the “best bargains” the “perfect imitations” and cheap knock-offs may no longer be available.
