Golfsmith and my Golf teacher disagree on my Length and lie

[Smarf]

I know I'm not an expert player, but I would tend to trust the golf pro for two reasons:

1) He's not biased and trying to sell you something. For all you know, you could have been "fitted" at +1/2 inch because they had one set left they were trying to sell.

2) A golf swing seems to be individualized to each person, even if they do try to copy a certain tour pro. It's possible that the +1/2 inch would work for every other 6 foot 3 person, but something about you is different.

Both of these two people want to sell you something. One a set of clubs that doesn't care how you swing or play. The other is selling his reputation for teaching you, and cares about your swing and how you play. Which one should you trust?

[TMO]

I am going to say this as nicely as I can. The guy at golfsmith does not know your swing like your teacher does. If your teacher says one thing and the guy that was trained for a few hours on club fitting says another, I would go with your teacher.

[jamvr10]

Went back, used a different fitter. He thought i was more like +1 inch but he did think +1.5 and 2up would work too. Kinda reluctantly agreed with my golf teacher.
He did take the time to look at my grip, im glad he did since he told me i need oversize grips as well.
Cost comes out to $170 to add 1 inch of length, change all the irons to 2 up, and then regrip and weight them...for that price i think im going to just have a custom set ordered from their site. I see you can build some great sets to custom. any of you ever use that on their site? the builder said if i used the site and added length the weight on some of the clubs would not be correct. is that true? Wow, this is complex!!!

Any of you ever hit or like the Callaway Big Bertha 08? Im leaning to those vs the sumos.

[Beretta_Shooter]

Try golfworks.com . IMHO they have better equipment and are currently running a $5 per club custom install deal.

[golf_junkie27]

Adding length to an existing shaft is going to change the swingweight. You have to find out how many points, though.

From personal experience, go to a personal fitter. Have them measure you and examine your swing. Hit clubs that have different weights and find what feels comfortable. Then have your set built based upon that, wedges included.

You can have a custom built, high end set of irons built to spec for roughly $80 a club. If you'd like, send me a PM. I can send you a list of really good personal fitters that will build you an amazing set of irons.

[rick1000]

What is probably happening is you are hunching over to compensate for your height and thus hitting the ball correctly. The Golfsmith employee was more than likely just looking at the impact tape and or lie board if you were using it, and not trying to analyze your swing. Your instructor who is trying to fix/adjust your swing recognizes that you are compensating and is correct in his assumption. But like others have said, nothing beats getting out and hitting your clubs to determine what is right for you. Everytime I hit a new driver in the store I crush it straight down the middle.....

[jamvr10]

What is probably happening is you are hunching over to compensate for your height and thus hitting the ball correctly. The Golfsmith employee was more than likely just looking at the impact tape and or lie board if you were using it, and not trying to analyze your swing. Your instructor who is trying to fix/adjust your swing recognizes that you are compensating and is correct in his assumption. But like others have said, nothing beats getting out and hitting your clubs to determine what is right for you. Everytime I hit a new driver in the store I crush it straight down the middle.....

I went with the +1.5 and 2 up...hit a few balls with a club like this at the store..no more hunched back...but need to wrok on my swing even more now...atleast i feel more comfortable.. i ordered callaway big bertha 2008 irons in my specs...added the oversized grips too! cant wait to try em

[cphpaco]

u hav to understand that club fitting benefits any player! Is ur pro a professional club fitter too? if not are the golfsmith workshop ppl professional fitters? the reason they ask u to swing with impact tape is to see how the sole of ur club makes contact with the ground... But rmbr it is better to hav a perfect swing then use the club to compensate rather than compensate the club with a bad swing... my advice... bring ur pro along with u to golfsmith and get things sorted

[paperclip]

I would follow the recommendations of the instructor and the pro, their ideas make sense; I am 6'3" and my specs are +1" and 2-up from Titleist's standard as determined by a session at Titleist FittingWorks. Had my irons adjusted to that and wow, what a difference!