Testimonials – Gotta Love Them!

I was fortunate that two of my clients recently wrote great testimonials on the clubs I built for them. For me, this is like extra pay – it is great to have someone say that they really love what you do for them.

What got me thinking a bit more about these lately is that I know there are a lot of the major club companies who are advertising that they do “clubfitting” at demo days. And to be truthful, most of these folks now have some very sophisticated equipment that they can use – particularly TrackMan launch monitors, the cadillac of the launch monitor.

I wondered though – do you think any of the folks who have been fitted at these demo days write a testimonial on the quality of the work and the results? Maybe some do, but I would be surprised if this is the case. Can a truly professional fitting be done in a case where most likely something like 40 to 50 people hit some clubs and get some launch monitor specs?

When I and other AGCP professional clubfitters do a fitting, it takes at least 1-1/2 hours of testing. Then in almost all cases I build a test club and we do some final testing and mods to ensure that the fit is REALLY the fit. Finally (as I started tonight for a client) I build the clubs to as close as possible to the exact specs that I measured in the fitting. To do this takes time and attention to detail.

Is this worth it in the final analysis? Well, I think that the testimonials on my web site from clients speak for themselves. And it is a blast to know that someone is playing a lot better golf using the clubs I built for them.

Tony