Over the last couple of posts I distinctly separated two options of fitting golf clubs to players, those being based directly on one’s swing performance and directly to ball travel. The conclusions are quite clear. While each approach in and of itself could essentially be utilized on its own to fit clubs,
Last post I pointed out how so critically important it is to fit golfers’ clubs to the way they swing, yet at the same time revealed how this really cannot and should not be done to the exclusion of all other clubfitting factors. Think now about fitting golf clubs based on ball travel alone while completely neglecting one’s swing. Can this be done?
Here I begin to consider the two extreme-end approaches on the Lifeline of Clubfitting as stand-alone processes to see how potentially effective each alone may be in the fitting of golf clubs. First think of fitting clubs only to one’s golf swing without regard to any other elements of play, which I reemphasize here can be attempted and accomplished with virtually every golf club specification. Why attempt this? Well if the fit of one’s golf club(s) allows one to swing to the best of his or her ability, then one’s best capacity for distance, control, and consistency hitting golf balls with the given club(s) becomes available. What other reason do you need for desiring to fit golf clubs directly to one’s swing? Should clubs be fit based on one’s golf swing alone? The answer is
I now return to the only two major and direct ways of fitting golf clubs to golfers: golf ball travel and swing performance. With just two approaches to examine at the start, various side-by-side comparisons can be more easily made and explained. I have no current plans to offer any aiding illustrations in the totally free version(s) of my work, so begin by intellectually visualizing a single straight line. Established at one end of this line is the proposition of fitting golf clubs to golfers based exclusively on
Last post I talked some about fitting one’s golf club length using a clubfitting ruler. Most people in golf know that changes in club length can cause discernible differences in ball travel, but fewer may be aware that changes in length can also be responsible for altering one’s golf swing, due to both the club length itself and/or other golf club characteristics that become different as a result of any length modifications. Choosing club length is an instrumental part of fitting, but using a clubfitting ruler to select length is another issue, as the method does not address
Another indirect method for fitting certain golf club specifications is by way of using a “clubfitting ruler” for determining one’s golf club length. This common gadget measures the distance between the ground and a part of your hand when standing erect with arms hanging at your sides. The measurement used to be figured to the fingertips or maybe the knuckles, but now many may do it to one’s wrist. One’s “optimal golf club length” is read off the ruler. Whereas with many other golf club parameters I have learned and evolved tremendously from being a beginner until now, I can honestly say that my verdict on the clubfitting ruler
After the two major and direct ways of fitting golf clubs to golfers, there are a number of instructed, “indirect” concepts whose merits rate from suitable to worthless. A few may be considered fair supplemental ways to help achieve the two primary goals of golf club fitting, if properly utilized. But because they are often “roundabout” in nature, they can be very problematic, especially in inexperienced hands. One such method is
Last post I discussed how golf swing performance and desired golf ball travel are all too often not coupled to each other. In addition to the multitude of times I have personally experienced this phenomenon in the past, I went through this again extensively just this year. I began the year putting the
The second direct means of fitting golf clubs to golfers is just about as transparent as fitting by ball travel that I discussed in my previous post. This is the fitting of golf clubs to
There are two and only two fundamental ways to directly analyze and fit golf clubs to golfers. The first is a no-brainer, rather obvious to even the most inexperienced of players (and clubfitters) after being involved in the game for only a very short period of time. This is, of course, by