What's New: Fitting Tips

The holy grail for most golfers is increased distance off the tee, but what driver length should you play to optimize distance?  With the USGA governing the rebound effect off the face of the driver (CT), it seems logical that adding length to the driver creates a longer swing arc and therefore more club head speed.  In our experience over the last twenty years, we have seen off-the-shelf driver lengths go from 43 inches to 46 inches, the maximum allowable by the USGA in most tournaments, and back to somewhere around 45 inches.  But, if you do not hit the sweet spot on the face of the driver, you will actually LOSE distance because the efficiency (smash factor) will drop and you will generate less ball speed.  The average driver length on the PGA Tour is 44.5 inches.  Check out our list of 2026 stock drivers at the end of this blog and their respective stock lengths. So, how do you determine YOUR optimum driver length?  There are several factors that you should consider: Schedule Your Driver Fitting Now! Arm length and Posture. In both our BGF Fitting System and the TrueFitClubs Fitting Wizard, we use wrist-crease-to-floor measurement to determine... Read More

  Getting your Golf Set Make-Up right for you is key to having fun and scoring well on the course!  With 14 clubs in your bag, including your putter, selecting the right 13 clubs is key! Twenty years ago, the traditional set make-up was Driver, 3 wood, 5 wood, 3 iron through pitching wedge, sand wedge and a putter.  That left an extra spot for another iron or wedge.  Wow, are those days gone! Here is what has happened in the last several year: Hybrid clubs (thank Adams Golf for these!) Gap Wedges (stronger lofted irons made these a necessity) Higher Lofted Fairway Woods (Remember the Callaway Heaven Wood?) Mini Drivers (Can’t hit a 3 wood?  Need More Control off the tee?) Our recommendations below are based upon three things:  Strength, Skill Level and Comfort. Strength Stronger players will typically play lower lofted drivers, maybe a mini-driver, a fairway wood, hybrid, 4 iron – PW and a couple more wedges.  Stronger players have no trouble getting the ball in the air so it is more about distance control.  Slower swings require higher lofts to get the ball airborne and be able to land the ball softly on the green. Skill... Read More

When you go through a professional golf club fitting, you can get overwhelmed with the numbers a launch monitor can spit out.  We are going to break it down to the most important club fitting numbers and how they affect your distance, accuracy and consistency! Before I dive into the numbers, I do want to clarify that we believe the shaft can make THE most significant difference in performance.  The proper length, shaft weight, shaft flex, trajectory, spin and swing weight will help you cut 2 to 20 strokes off your game! We use TrackMan for our club fitting so we will use their terminology to be consistent.  TrackMan has 36 different parameters but we will only use the 12 most important numbers based upon our thousands of fittings.  We will assume a right handed golfer in these notes. Book a Lifetime Complete Fitting! Attack Angle  This is the upward or downward movement of the club at maximum compression.  Ok, you must swing up on a driver and putter to get optimum spin, but swing down on all other clubs (fairways, hybrids, irons and wedges) to get maximum compression for distance.  A good Attack Angle for a driver is +1... Read More

    We have updated the list with QUITE A FEW NEW shafts for 2025 and we have removed iron shafts that are NO LONGER AVAILABLE in 2026. Best Iron Shafts 2026 – With Specific Recommendations based upon distances, trajectory and spin. Selecting the best iron shaft or iron–shaft combination for your game starts with knowing your game. The newest irons and shafts in 2025-26 are producing greater distance, forgiveness and accuracy for our customers because we properly tune the iron and shaft combination to your handicap and swing dynamics. We’ve put the newest iron shafts from Aerotech, ACCRA, Fujikura, Project X, True Temper, Graphite Design, KBS, OBAN, Mitsubishi, Nippon and others through rigorous testing. Choose your handicap range or swing speed to see how each iron shaft stacks up: (Our More Popular Shafts are Highlighted in Red) • Professionals/ low handicaps (6 iron distance is 200+ yards with swing speeds 90+ mph) • Low to Mid-handicaps (6 iron distance 175 – 200 yards with swing speeds between 80-90 mph) • Higher handicaps (6 iron distance 150 – 175 yards with swing speed less than 80 mph • Seniors, Juniors, Ladies (6 iron distance under 150 yards) If you want... Read More

If you want to play great golf in 2026, start with the best equipment fit for YOUR swing!   As you reflect on 2025 and look forward to 2026, if you are like most of us, there is room for improvement!  Even the tour pros spend a lot of time with their coaches analyzing their rounds and making a plan to improve.  We know it takes proper technique, practice and the right equipment fit to YOUR swing.   Analytics and More One of the top degrees coming out of college these days is Data Analyst.  The era of “Big Data” is here, even in the golf industry.  When Mark Broadie wrote “Every Shot Counts” in 2014, it was used very little on the PGA Tour.  Now, Strokes Gained is used and commented on regularly by tour players, analysts, and commentators.   Golf Digest recently published this article on how analytics are being used on tour!   The results have been pretty dramatic for several players!  So, take a look at your scorecards and find out where you are losing strokes.  Missed fairways?  OB?  Poor iron shots?  Short-siding your wedges?  Putting letting you down?  If You Have ARCCOS Golf, USE IT! The use of... Read More

Solving the hybrid vs. long iron fitting dilemma should not be a difficult decision.  In general there are a couple of factors to consider. Check out our Comments in a Golf Digest Article Here… Book a Lifetime Iron/Hybrid Fitting! First, how comfortable is the golfer in hitting hybrid clubs?   I would say 20-30% of our golfers going through a fitting have trouble hitting their hybrids consistently.  Usually, it is because of the fact that the hybrids are not very well fit to them in terms of shaft flex and weight (Learn More).  Unfortunately, sometimes this becomes a mental block that is difficult to overcome.  We get past that by having the golfer hit a hybrid that is matched to their swing and compare it to their existing hybrid.  This usually gets rid of the fear factor! Second, how well does the golfer hit their long(er) irons? This is a little bit of a trick question as most golfers want to keep a longer iron, like a 4 or 5 iron, in their bag to get out of trouble if they are under a tree branch.  But that is a total waste of a club.  I can easily knock down... Read More

Finding the right hybrid shaft is very important, especially when replacing long irons.  According to our current poll, 35% of our golfers say the WORST club(s) in their bag are their long irons.  So, maybe new hybrids are in order.   (see our related blog on long irons here).  The Problem With Off-the-Rack Hybrids While buying a hybrid off-the-rack is the most common purchase, the shafts offered very likely do not fit the majority of golfers.  Most hybrid shafts that we test during a fitting are too soft (flexible) and too light of weight.  This can cause very poor ball contact, wide shot dispersion and a loss of distance.  So how do we determine which shaft is best for your swing dynamics?  Our BGF Fitting System and Fitting Wizard has modeled thousands of golfers swings and will dynamically recommend the proper shaft length, weight, flex, swing weight and profile (trajectory and spin) to optimize your hybrid performance based upon your unique swing dynamics. Book a Lifetime Iron/Hybrid Fitting! Shaft Weight The longest, lightest, yet stiffest club in you bag is your driver.  The heaviest, shortest and most flexible clubs will be your wedges.  As clubs get shorter from driver to fairway woods to hybrids, the... Read More

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The question of "should you play forged or cast irons" is becoming quite a bit less controversial these days due to modern technology. 

  We always advise you on what happens when golf shafts are not right for your swing.  A lot of golfers that have never been through our fitting process, think that the majority of their miss-hits are caused by their swing.  Fortunately, that is not always the case!  I will make some predictions for misses based upon a right-handed golfer.  Of course the swing direction makes a big impact.   Let me summarize what we see by type of club with the wrong shafts: Driver:   Misses both left and right:  Shaft too flexible in butt section (A flex when should be an R, for example).  Misses mostly right(push or slice):  Shaft may be too stiff in the butt section (S flex when should be an R) or shaft is too heavy.  Misses mostly left(pull or pull hook):   Shaft is too flexible in the butt section and/or shaft is too light.  Misses off the Top of the ClubFace:  Too steep of swing (negative attack angle) or way too soft of butt section or tip section causing toe droop at impact.  Misses mostly low:  Too much positive attack angle (swinging up on the ball with tee height too low) or shaft... Read More