Rooting For YOUR Golfing Success!
You CAN Shoot Lower Scores, And Achieve Your Golfing Dreams!
Hopefully when you opened this blog post, you noticed the new banner design on my web site. Why change, you might ask? Well, I have been doing a lot of soul-searching about what my personal motives are for being a custom club fitter. And I think the new banner portrays "what juices me" about helping golfers play their best.
Yes, I spend a lot of time learning about how to be the best club fitter and club builder that I can be. And while that is important, it in my view is not the entire story.
I simply get excited and delighted when someone gets to play better golf as the result of working with them to improve their golf clubs. A great illustration of this happened this past weekend. I met with a golfer who was struggling big-time to hit his irons well. He felt like his lie angles might be wrong, but a major issue with his clubs is that they were way too long for him. As a first step to helping him to be the best golfer he can be, I am going to shorten his present irons about an inch – and reweight all of them to get the best feel and performance for them. Once he develops a bit more consistency with irons that are the right length for him, we will then work to do a full custom iron fitting to get him in clubs to produce more distance, best feel, more consistency, and less shot dispersion.
In addition though, I had him show me how he putts. His present putter is at least 2 inches too long for him, its lie angle was way too flat, it had too much loft, and its grip was not close to on straight. I increased the lie angle and loft for him, and put a new grip on correctly. At least for the present time he will grip this putter down about 2 inches when he putts. I can almost guarantee that he will start making more putts and feel more confident on the greens with these improvements.
So yes – I am a golfer's cheerleader! – I love it when golfers decide to learn the truth about their present golf clubs, make a commitment to playing with clubs that truly fit them, and get to shoot lower scores and have more fun when they play golf.
Rooting For YOUR Golfing Success!
Tony
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