Custom Fittings are OVERRATED?

[Fourputt]

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Originally Posted by Fourputt

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Originally Posted by Duff McGee

False dichotomy fallacy.

Why not try to offer some assistance to whoever you were replying to, instead of showing off the new words you learned today while saying nothing intelligible?

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Originally Posted by Mac62

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Originally Posted by Kenny Lee

So, everyone these days in on the custom-club-fitting bandwagon. However, I don't see much benefit.

I play golf with around 10 guys on a regular basis. All 10 have been fitted for clubs over the last 3 years. A few of these guys also spent roughly $600 for Edel putters, too.

And they have something else in common (other than custom fitted clubs)-

THEY ALL STILL SUCK AT GOLF.

It's damn funny when someone arrives at the course for the first time with their custom clubs and/or putter, only to watch them slice their drive OB, blade their mid irons, chunk wedges, and 3-putt with their $600 putters.

And they all say, "I love my new clubs/putter." But their scores suck.

Perhaps time and money would be better spent on lessons and time at the range, or practice green?

I'm 6'6" with a 35"/36" sleeve length.  I'll bet custom fitting makes a lot more difference to a guy like me than it does to a guy who's 5'9" and fits comfortably into standard length/lie clubs.  When I play off-the-rack clubs, I look like a baseball catcher squatting down to pick a ball up off the ground.

A lot more depends on how your body is proportioned than your height vs. arm length.  I am 6'2" with a 33" arm, but I also only have a 30" inseam, so I've been able to get away with a more or less standard length and lie.  I'm now awaiting delivery of my first set of fitted irons, but even after fitting, they are only 1/2" longer than standard, with only a 1 degree upright lie.  It's entirely possible that you may only need a lie adjustment, or only a minimal length increase - impossible to say just from a conversation.  A proper fitting may make quite a difference, or it may not - the clubfitter measures you just standing to see where your arms hang from the ground, and then makes makes some swing measurements as well.  During my fitting at Golfsmith, I probably hit 150 balls on the launch monitor along with the lie and impact tape measurements.

I have a 36" inseam.  I was fitted for my current irons at 5 degrees upright and +1 1/2" (using static measurements, a lie board and a launch monitor).  That's a pretty significant difference from off the rack clubs.

My point was simply that it's ridiculous to issue a blanket condemnation of custom fitting.  It's not a magic pill to fix a bad swing, but there are certainly many people who benefit from it.

No argument there - I've been basically saying the same thing.  When it doesn't add anything to the cost of the clubs, then why not take advantage of it?  Even if I had to play a bit more, I still would have had a fitting this time.