Fitting Golf Clubs

Golf clubs can be custom fitted

Hello again fellow golfers. In this week’s article I want to talk about the process of custom golf club fitting. This is the system used to make adjustments to the way a golf club is made. The ultimate goal is to produce a set of clubs that fit you personally as a golfer. It is no secret that every player has a different swing, so why should people play the same set of clubs that come out of the assembly line? The business of club fitting has skyrocketed with success in the past decade. It has become much more available to the public course golfer and the entire process has become relatively simpler. I think the fun thing about club fitting is that you can get as technical as you want with your adjustments or just change a few characteristics of the club to help your game. The two most crucial specifications of a club used when custom fitting you for a new set of irons are the optimum length and lie angle of the club and then to determine the correct shaft that is most beneficial to your swing. I’d like to focus this article on length and lie angle. Next week will discuss different shafts and shaft characteristics. The length of your golf club is mostly determined by your height, but other influences could be the way you stand over the ball before your shot, the length from your wrist to the floor when your hand is at your side. A certified custom club fitter will first look at physical attributes first such as gender, height, arm length, and hand size. I am a 6-foot-1 inch male with a wingspan of 68 inches and the distance from the crease of my wrist to the tip of my middle finger is 9 inches. These characteristics give a great guide as to the first type of club to put in your hand. Clubs can be shortened or length with ease in most cases. But honestly the more important specification is the lie angle. Lie angle is defined as the measurement of the angle between the sole, or bottom, of the golf club and the shaft. Setting the lie angle correctly is similar to the sighting on a rifle. It must be correct for the shot to be accurate. This attribute looks at how flush your club sits on the ground as you address the ball for your swing. Lie angle is mostly used with irons, but is being used increasingly more with the technology advancement in drivers and fairway woods. For now I will be talking about an iron. The clubhead of the iron can sit flush, too upright, or too flat in relevance to the ground.

Are Custom-Fitted Golf Clubs Worth It?

You often wonder:  What is the big deal about custom-fitted golf clubs?  Well, the truth is, only your golf game if you want it put it simply.  If you haven’t considered having your clubs properly fitted to your swing style and game, then you’re still giving away strokes for yourself and to the competition.

If you are passionate about your game of golf and want to improve it, you need to have this done.  The great thing about it is, you don’t need to get a new set of clubs.  Your existing clubs will do.

What exactly does it mean to have custom fitted golf clubs?  As we all know, most golf clubs sold are fairly generic when they are produced at the manufacturer and then sold to the consumer.  Since there are various types of golf swings for each person,  it is significant for your club to be fitted to suit your particular swing style to maximize performance.

So why is it important to have custom fitted clubs?  It is like buying a pair of pants.  You often want them to be altered to fit your body height and size, so they are as comfortable as possible.  The same thing holds true with golf clubs.

Recently, this fitting phenomenon has been strongly pushed or marketed to the general public, although the idea itself has been around a long time.  All PGA pros have been doing it for a while now.

However, golf manufacturers are always trying to improve their clubs to help you improve your game, that’s why you might think custom fitted clubs are not necessary.

This custom fitting is basically a natural progression for the game itself.  By not having it done, you are most likely leaving yourself behind against your fellow competitors.  When you get custom fitted golf clubs, you’re getting clubs that fit your swing like a glove.

When you decide to get the custom fitted clubs, go to any local golf fitting center, golf store, or driving range that has a launch monitor.  It is a computer system that records readings about your golf swing through a trajectory, launch angle off the club face, swing speed, golf ball spin, and number of other things.  It analyses all these data while you hit a few balls into a net or on the range.

These data will then be converted and allows the golf specialist what shafts you should have in your clubs, the angle your clubs should be sitting at, and the proper lofts and lies to get you the optimum launch angle for maximum controlled ball flight.

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