Sessions / Fitting by Club
Every Gauge Session, One Page, No Guessing Which Link to Click
We used to split this across six separate pages. It made sense on paper and was useless in practice, because most golfers arrive with a question that touches two or three clubs at once. Jump to the club you care about, or read straight through — the method is the same one described on the session walkthrough.
Your Best Drive Is Not the Number That Matters
One flattering swing in an afternoon proves nothing. What actually governs how a driver performs across a season is how it behaves on the swings that miss the middle, so the session opens with the face taped and every contact logged against a coordinate and a velocity. Candidate heads are ranked on how much speed each preserves in the zones you genuinely strike, not on the peak number.
Order of work is fixed: length first, because nothing relocates a strike pattern like a shorter shaft; head second, scored on holdover rather than the best single shot; shaft third, screened once the pattern has stopped moving; loft last, since the adjustable hosel setting interacts with everything upstream of it.
- Candidate heads3–4
- Shafts screened4–6
- Recorded swings~70
- Length & lie workIncluded
Tested Off Turf, Not Off a Tee
Put a fairway wood on a low tee and it will produce agreeable numbers no matter what. Nothing asks the sole to do anything, so we test off turf first — sole width, camber and leading-edge height decide whether you can commit to the shot at all, and that only shows up on real ground.
The second half of the session is gapping. We measure the carry gap between your driver and your longest iron and work out how many clubs genuinely belong in it; a surprising number of bags carry two fairway woods eight yards apart, which is one club and a passenger.
- Clubs covered1–2
- Turf contact workIncluded
- Gapping checkIncluded
The Gap Gets Measured Before the Club Does
Half the hybrids we see sit on top of a club the golfer already owns. We start with a distance ladder — carry for the fairway wood and the longest iron on either side of the proposed slot — and if the gap is eleven yards, no hybrid fits usefully into it. We would rather say that in the first twenty minutes than sell a club that never leaves the bag.
When the gap is real, address geometry decides the rest: offset, topline and sole sit angle are measured against your irons, because a hybrid that looks nothing like its neighbours is a club you will hesitate over.
- Gap auditIncluded
- Address geometry checkIncluded
- Clubs covered1–2
Fitted as a Set, Measured at Three Points
Fitting a 7-iron and extrapolating to fourteen clubs is quick, not right. We measure lie, length and shaft response at a long iron, a middle iron and a short iron, because lie in particular drifts through a set — a golfer who needs standard in the 7 frequently needs a degree upright in the 4, and nobody discovers that from one club.
Progression is the second half of the session: offset, topline thickness and leading-edge position as they change through the ladder, which decides whether the 6-iron inspires the same confidence as the 9 or feels like a stranger dropped into the bag.
We Read the Divot Before Anyone Says Bounce
A divot is a free, repeatable, physical record of what the sole just did — more informative about wedge fit than any single launch-monitor number. Depth, direction, taper and entry point tell us whether you need more bounce, less bounce, or a different sole geometry entirely, and central Alabama's swing between dormant bermuda and lush summer turf makes that reading matter twice a year, not once.
The second half maps your loft ladder from your actual pitching wedge loft, not the number stamped on the sole, since modern sets have crept strong enough to leave a twelve-degree hole exactly where short par-four approaches land.
- Wedges covered2–4
- Divot geometry loggedYes
- Loft ladder into setChecked
Length and Lie Before Anyone Looks at a Head
The standard thirty-four inches on a rack is a manufacturing convention, not a fitting decision. We measure where your eyes actually sit relative to the ball and how your forearms hang at address; length and lie fall out of those two readings, and only then does a head get chosen — matched to a stroke arc traced across forty putts rather than to how the club looks in a display case.
Most putter sessions end with the same putter shortened and re-lied. Fitting the head to your arc, not the reverse, is the whole point.
- Putts recorded~40
- Eye line & arcMeasured
- Length & lie changeIncluded
Not Sure Which Club Is Costing You Shots?
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