What's New: Fitting Tips

For 2025, you should set your sights lower...scores that is! 

A golf club fitting, when done properly, will custom fit golf clubs to your swing. By properly, we’re talking applied science – deep insights into shaft dynamics plus Trackman data, not trial and error with just a handful of off-the-rack shafts. Looking ahead to 2025 season, it’s not that far away. Your swing is grooved now, even if there are areas where you struggle. What areas (putting, chipping, fairways) cost you strokes against where you want to be? What is your typical miss (slice, hook, thin, fat)? Which club do you love and which one do you carry but stop hitting? Our expert golf club fitting explores more than just your golf swing. We take time to understand your goals, your objectives, your misses and with which clubs. Explore Our Club Fitting Process Here When is the best time to get a golf club fitting? Get fit while you feel like your swing in the groove. For most golfers, that’s now. Instead of waiting until Spring as the 2025 season is getting started, or worse mid-season, get custom fit for golf clubs now. Here are 5 reasons to consider: 1. Consistency in the swing improves accuracy in the Golf Club... Read More

  Get fit or fix my swing?  This is probably the most asked question we get in our fitting studio.  The very short answer? Do Both!   We work with several of the top instructors and we can make recommendations for the best coach in your area.  But first of all, we really do suggest you get fit for your clubs! What Our Golfers Want From a Club Fitting The most common response when we ask our customers what they want from their golf game is CONSISTENCY! This is a crazy sport where you can have up to 14 clubs to hit one ball.  The chances of all of those clubs matching your swing?  Slim to none!  The five most important club attributes are club length, shaft weight, shaft flex, shaft profile (trajectory and spin), and swing weight.  The most common attributes golfers look at are length and weight.  The lightest, longest and stiffest club in your bag is your driver.  The shortest, softest flex and heaviest clubs will be your wedges.  In between, the clubs will vary by weight, flex and length. Below is a chart of what we may see in a golfers bag when testing these five attributes... Read More

Measuring Golf Swing Dynamics is a very important part of the golf club fitting process.  In our in-person fitting sessions, we utilize the Mizuno Shaft Optimizer to measure tempo, transition, kick point and release.  This information is fundamental to our BGF Fitting System and TrueFitClubs Fitting Wizard to make more accurate shaft recommendations. Swing Dynamics – Tempo, Transition and Release Most golfers are not actually sure about their swing dynamics.  They think their tempo is fast when actually it is probably pretty standard.   In our fitting recommendations, it is very clear how the swing dynamics of Tempo, Transition and Release can impact shaft selections. In general, the smoother your swing, the softer and lighter shaft you can play to optimize distance, accuracy and consistency.  We call this a “Swinger” type of swing.  On the other had, if you have a faster tempo, short and aggressive back swing, you will need a firmer, and potentially heavier shaft to optimize your results.  We call this a “Hitter” type of swing.  See more on this topic at this blog on swing dynamics. Mizuno Shaft Optimizer Mizuno has been at the forefront of the effort to help determine the proper shafts with their Shaft... Read More

The Best Fitting System – AI Before AI Was Cool!  Ok, it really is a Predictive Modeling Fitting System, but it is the BEST! Choose an Elite Club Fitting for You The best golf club fitting system will recommend the proper length of club, shaft weight, shaft flex, shaft trajectory, shaft spin and swing weight for every club in your bag.  If you have been through a fitting and these club characteristics were not specifically detailed, your fitter is just guessing at what will work for you. We believe that our BGF (Better Golf…Faster) Fitting System is the most accurate and reliable fitting system in use today.  The system was first developed in 2005 and has been used to fit well over 20,000 golfers around the world.  The unique part of this fitting system is that it takes into account four different aspects that all work together to create a proper fitting recommendation:  Physical Characteristics (height, weight, wrist-crease-to-floor), Swing Dynamics (tempo, transition and release point), Strength (distance for 6 iron and driver) and Shot Tendencies (height and direction). Recommendations for Every Golfer Using these swing and shot measurements, the BGF Fitting System will make recommendations for golfers of all ages and... Read More

These five 2024 Championship Golf tips can give you the confidence and consistency to rise to the top. The LPGA and PGA Tour Opens trigger crunch time to ensure your game is ready for your club championship golf.  Bryson DeChambeau won the 2024 U.S. Open and  Amy Yang won the 2024 Women’s PGA Championship.   And The Open is just a couple weeks away!  If you’re like us, these performances get us all revved up for the 2024 championship golf season. A couple tournament wins can get you on your Ryder Cup team. And we’re just a couple weeks away from Club Championships. Personal fitness, mental preparedness and practice are important to ready yourself. But all too often, golfers neglect the quality and state of their equipment. Ask yourself: What’s the condition of your wedges? How are the grooves, gapping, swing weight, and your grips? How are your grips? If you haven’t regripped within the last year – you’re overdue! What’s your FIR (fairways in regulation) percentage? If you aren’t hitting at least 70% of fairways in regulation, scoring gets very difficult. Improving your strokes gained off the tee by hitting more fairways is a top 3 way to drop... Read More

The Best 2024 Driver and shaft combinations is based upon our fitting results so far in 2024.    The Best of the Best are Highlighted in Red! The usual suspects were on the 2024 Golf Digest Equipment Hot List , but a the biggest news is the Maximum MOI – 10K drivers from almost every manufacturer.  Various forums, and ourselves as well publish a list of the best drivers.  Some are very independent and some are not.  Doesn’t matter.  What our customers are looking for is what are the best driver and shaft combinations that we have fit so far in 2024, even though it is early in the season.  In addition, we believe that the shaft is the part of the club that has the most impact on distance, consistency and accuracy, so that is why we are including our shaft recommendations in this list. This list will be updated throughout the year as new shaft offerings are released.  We have four distinct categories based upon swing speed and distance.  Swing Speed 106+, Distance > 250 yards Swing Speed 95-105, Distance 211 – 250 yards Swing Speed 80 – 94, Distance 175 – 210 yards Swing Speed Under 80,... Read More

The third step to hitting more GIR should be knowing your distances and distance gaps.  This will allow you to approach your shot to the green with confidence.

In a professional iron fitting, the results should be a 50% reduction in shot dispersion and a 5-10% improvement in distance over your current set.