Equipment
Grip Size: The Fitting Variable Almost Everyone Skips
Ask most golfers what a fitting session covers and they will list shaft flex, head design, maybe lie angle if they have been paying attention. Grip size rarely …
Club Fitting
Equipment
Bounce and Grind, the Wedge Fitting Almost Nobody Bothers With
Most golfers buy a wedge the way they buy a loaf of bread. They look at the number stamped on the sole, decide they want a fifty-six, and take whichever one the …
Equipment
What a Driver Fitting Actually Changes
There is a particular kind of golfer who walks into a fitting bay convinced he already knows the answer. He wants the head the longest hitter on Tour is using, …
Equipment
Gapping Your Set: The Yardages Hiding Between Your Clubs
Ask most golfers how far they hit their seven iron and they will give you a number with great confidence. Ask them how far they hit the club between their …
Equipment
Hybrid, Five-Wood or Driving Iron: Sorting Out the Top of Your Bag
There is a stretch in almost every bag, somewhere between the fairway wood and the seven-iron, where the average golfer makes a decision out of habit rather …
Equipment
The Adjustable Hosel: What All Those Settings on Your Driver Actually Do
Most amateurs who own an adjustable driver have used the wrench exactly once, on the day they bought it, and have been faintly afraid of it ever since. The …
Equipment
The Mini Driver: The Club Quietly Replacing the Three-Wood
The mini driver, for most of the last decade, was a club category most amateur golfers had heard of without ever seeing one in person. The category existed in …
Equipment
Wedge Bounce: The Number on the Sole You Have Probably Never Checked
There is a number stamped on the back of every wedge, usually next to the loft, that almost no recreational golfer has ever consciously checked. The loft is the …
Equipment
Steel or Graphite Iron Shafts: Why Age Is the Wrong Way to Decide
There is a moment that happens in nearly every iron fitting at nearly every reasonable fitting bay in the country. The player, who is somewhere between forty …
Equipment
Regripping: The Cheapest Stroke You Can Save
There is a specific kind of amateur golfer who will spend three thousand dollars on a new set of irons, eight hundred on a putter fitting, and four hundred on a …