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How To Find The Best Custom Clubfitters
With the advent of adjustable hosel drivers and special order fitting options from the big golf club companies, a growing number of golfers are becoming aware that custom clubfitting exists with claims that it is a way for them to improve their play. The problem with this type of awareness among golfers about custom fitting is that it becomes too easy for uneducated golfers to be fooled into going to be custom fit by people and businesses that cannot perform the type of custom fitting that can deliver visible game improvement. Using an...
read moreClubhead Cup Face and How it Affects Performance
All driver heads as well as some fairway wood and hybrid heads are manufactured from a number of separate pieces which are welded together to complete the final construction of the clubhead. Most common are driver heads which are manufactured from 4 separate pieces, as shown by this illustration below. Of the separate pieces which make up the complete clubhead, one is always the clubface. Within such types of driver, fairway wood and hybrid head construction, the face can be formed to be welded to the body in two different ways, one called...
read moreWedge Backspin – Create Backspin with Micro-Groove Wedge
Who isn’t amazed at the ability of the men and women tour players to stop the ball on the green? Without question, elite players can generate more backspin first, because of their swing technique. When a slight downward angle of attack, when the face is dead square to the swing path, when the wrist cock angle is unhinged very late and when the clubface able to contacts the ball first before driving into the turf, more friction is generated between the ball and the clubface and more backspin will occur. Unfortunately, not all of us can master...
read moreDriver Clubhead Size and Performance – Who Wins?
I’m well aware there are a number of golfers who can’t stand looking down at drivers which to them, look so large in size they seem like a “grapefruit on the end of a stick.” Golf equipment information forums will occasionally have threads in which golfer’s plea for the companies to develop and introduce sub 400cc drivers. Within such comments invariably is the question, “can a smaller size driver perform as well as a larger one, and if so, why haven’t the golf companies offered at least an alternative smaller size...
read moreUsing a Solid Set Makeup to Play SMART Golf?
Everyone who plays this game with even a speck of passion knows that to play your best, you have to play SMART golf. To most golfers, smart golf is all about course management; knowing when to “go for it” or when to hit the conservative shot. But playing smart golf isn’t always about studying each hole to know which club to hit when and where to aim it. It’s also about what complement of clubs you choose to play, something in the world of custom clubfitting which is called being custom fit with the right “Set Makeup.” Remember,...
read moreHybrid Club Fitting – More Headcovers in the Bag Indicates a Smarter Golfer
Not long ago I was asked my opinion of what have been the most significant advances in golf club technology over the past century. Such a list has to include improvements such as steel shafts replacing hickory, perimeter weighted irons and metal woods replacing blades and wooden heads, titanium driver heads with their higher COR, and graphite shafts to lighten the total weight of golf clubs, just to name a few. I also believe the latest entry on such a list should include hybrid clubs, but only if the hybrids are correctly fit to golfers for...
read moreGolf Shaft Fitting – Selecting the Shaft so You Don’t “Get the Shaft”
Here’s a little fact of life the golf industry never talks about when the subject of custom Clubfitting comes up. There are no established standards within the golf equipment industry for shaft flex. The R flex from one company may have the same stiffness as the S flex from another company, or the A flex from yet some other company. The result is a lot of golfers walk away from their club buying experience without the right fit for the shafts in their new clubs. Accurate shaft fitting has to consist of four important steps: Measure...
read moreIron Fitting – Iron Out The Details
Since all golfers’ full complement of “irons” should include a mix of hybrids and irons, here are a number of other important elements of iron set fitting that can help ensure golfers are custom fit for the best overall iron set. Iron Lengths and Length Increments The starting length of the combined hybrid/iron set starts with a measurement of the golfer’s wrist to floor dimension. Final length is then a process of swing evaluation to determine the maximum length each golfer can control while still being able to address and swing at...
read moreCustom Clubfitting is MORE Beneficial for Mid-High Handicap than Low Handicap Golfers
One of the most common misconceptions about custom clubfitting is that most middle and high handicap golfers believe they are “not good enough to be custom fit.” Here’s an absolute fact about custom fitting – the less skilled the golfer, the MORE they need to be accurately fit to play to the best of their ability. Because of their superior athletic and kinetic skills, low handicap golfers could play almost as well with quite a wide variety of different golf club specifications. Middle and high handicap golfers do not have the same...
read morePutter Fitting – The Most Important Club to Custom Fit
Golfers use the putter more than any other club in the bag, yet it Putter fitting rarely gets the attention it deserves. 43% of the average golfer’s shots are struck with the putter. Yet how do most golfers buy a putter? By trial and error, with the emphasis put almost entirely on the “look” or the design features of the putter head, instead of the 4 critical putter fitting elements which, if properly fit, could strip strokes off your score. Granted, it’s a fact – if the golfer isn’t confident with the look of the putter...
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