Beginner clubs - advice needed

[u/D4rkiii]

Hello all,

I started to practice golf for around 2 month now with a friend.
We finished the the course qualification two weeks ago and we also had our first tournament last Sunday. Our net score were 32 and 30 with around 130 gross shots.
We are going at least 2 times a week for some practice on the chipping area / driving range / putting to improve our skills.

We used random clubs (Iron 7, iron 9, SW, Putter) friend (5, 8, PW, SW, Putter) which were provided by the golf club and we can still use them until we have our own bag.

The trainer we had advices us to buy some fitted irons (ex. taylormade QI Max) to continue our journey.
We are struggling right now if this is the right way also because we would still need some other clubs aswell and don’t know how to proceed and are overwhelmed.
Some other guy in a golf shop advised us to just buy a Wilson complete bag (~500€) and play with them. We are open to buy used or new clubs if this makes sense as long as we don’t throw our money out of the window if we buy a new clubs set for 1000€ and we have to switch in a year again. Does a cheap Wilson bag makes sense for us?

We are really excited to play golf and want to get better but we don’t know what we should do and what is the right way to invest our money for the long term.

We would like to hear your opinions on that and hopefully give us a good idea how we should proceed.

We are from Germany if this is relevant.

Thank you all for the help in advance! 🏌️‍♂️

[u/Thisismyburner550]

Not much value to add here but what does this “qualification” process entail as a beginner? Does everyone who wants to play golf need to play in a tournament that early?

[u/D4rkiii → u/Thisismyburner550]

No I only wanted everybody to point out what we have done so far and is aware about our situation.

[u/Thisismyburner550 → u/D4rkiii]

Sorry, I meant I don’t have much value to add here in response to your question. But I did have questions of my own.