Clubmaking Equipment
Golf Tips On Finding The Right Gift
If you're buying golf clubs as a Christmas gift, consider a gift certificate to a clubfitter's shop instead. All players benefit from fitted clubs, although may be not to the same degree. Unfortunately, the players who benefit the most from fitted clubs—those sporting high golf handicaps, golf lessons notwithstanding—are the least likely to buy them.
Buyers have four options when it comes to buying fitted clubs. They can see a PGA professional, club manufacturer, golf shop, like Golfer's Warehouse, or custom golf fitting studio. Each has its advantages and disadvantages, and each provides its own benefits. Before choosing one, buyers ought to consider several factors that can help them find the right fitter.
Find A Fitter With A Launch Monitor
Not long ago clubfitting was tedious, expensive, and inexact. But the advent of computers changed that. Clubfitting is now fast, accurate, and affordable. Instead of being based on experience and educated guesswork, clubfitting is founded on precise information, thanks to digital equipment like computerized launch monitors. Using high-speed digital cameras, launch monitors record a shot through impact and display it on a computer screen.
Computerized launch monitors measure what happens before and at impact. They provide information like launch angle, ball seed, spin rate, clubhead speed, angle of attack, and swing path. The monitor's computer then determines carry and roll. It also determines the exact distance left or right of target. In other words, it tells you if you're hitting the ball on the sweet spot and how often. And the numbers don't lie. They also improve the chances of fitting clubs exactly to your swing.
Expect A Precise Process
Expect a precise process at the clubfitters. Once a clubfitter determines your specs, she needs find the right clubs. With some clubfitters, the process is trial and error. With others, it's more exact. In either case, the clubfitter takes a step-by-step approach finding the right clubs for you by examining one variable at a time. For example, the clubfitter has you hit a few balls to determine loft. Then he has you hit a few balls t to determine club length. And so on.
The step-by-step process enables the clubfitter to see the impact that changing one club variable makes on your swing. If he changes more than one—like loft and ball flight—at simultaneously, he won't know which variable caused a change in ball flight. That approach is confusing and disconcerting. The goal with the step-by-step process is to tweak everything until the clubfitter gets it right. It's the same process that tour players use to fit themselves.
Other golf tips found by our research:
* Think of labels as guides only.
Specs from club manufacturers differ. They all have their own measurement systems. Plus, there's no industry standard. Don't anything about transferring specs.
* Check the clubfitter's qualifications.
Go to the Professional Clubmakers Society or the Golf Clubmakers Association to check on a clubfitter's qualifications.
* Pare down the options.
Pare down club options as quickly as possible. If you go to a clubmaker that offers many lines of equipment, the process usually goes a lot faster and quicker.
* Go inside or outside.
It doesn't matter if you hit balls inside or outside. You might even do both. The goal is narrowing down the choices and determining the your specs.
* Make sure all gear fits.
Don't stop at buying fitted clubs. The right shafts, balls, and grips are critical as well. Get fitted for those, too.
Buying a set of custom-made clubs isn't tedious and laborious anymore. With help from digital cameras and high-speed computers, clubfitting is much faster nowadays. A clubfitting session usually takes about an hour. If you work with an accredited and experienced clubfitter carrying many lines of equipment, the session will probably take less.
Fitted clubs benefit all players, but especially those with high golf handicaps. So if you're buying new clubs for someone during Christmas, consider a gift certificate for a clubfitting session. It's as much an investment as a gift.
About the Author
Jack Moorehouse is the author of the best-selling book How To Break 80 And Shoot Like The Pros. He is NOT a golf pro, rather a working man that has helped thousands of golfers from all seven continents lower their handicap immediately. Free weekly newsletter available with the latest golf tips, lessons and instructions.
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