Getting custom fitting

[old man1953]

I am getting custom fitted in October or early November. I have already read the go into it with an "Open Mind" concerning  the clubs or brand I want( and I think I can do that ) I am also going to hit the practice range a few times before I set up my appointment...I am  going by to talk to the person that will be doing the fitting a couple of weeks before to just meet him and kind of get a feel of the whole process............is there anything you guys or ladies would suggest or recommend besides the things I already mentioned I do before and during this process .... he told me it would be at least two trips ( one for woods and one for irons and if needed another for putter if we couldn't get it all done in two....

Thanks for any input

[rcwkent]

I was fitted for irons last year and they have been superb!

I was very surprised about the brand I bought....was not even on my list if I had just bot off the shelf.

I was surprised at the shaft results too.  Wouldn't have picked out that one either.

Overall, very rewarding experience. I'll never buy another club without it.

I picked my fitter from the Golf Digest list of the top 100 fitters. I had watched a guy

get "fitted" in a retail store earlier and was not impressed.

[old man1953]

  rcwkent said:

I was fitted for irons last year and they have been superb! I was very surprised about the brand I bought....was not even on my list if I had just bot off the shelf. I was surprised at the shaft results too.  Wouldn't have picked out that one either. Overall, very rewarding experience. I'll never buy another club without it. I picked my fitter from the Golf Digest list of the top 100 fitters. I had watched a guy get "fitted" in a retail store earlier and was not impressed.

I did my research on the fitters near by. Any advice? Anything you would have done differently? Or did you just go into it with the trust and knew that once the info was there you would be paired up with right clubs? I am 62 and told fitter I was quite willing to do a analysis before hand if it would " maybe" make a difference. He told me it would really be a waste of money. To go to practice range a few times to make sure I was bringing my real swing, then come in with an open mind and trust the results. Did you find that to be the case?

[Kenny Lee]

Go to Miles of Golf in Ann Arbor, MI.

Miles of Golf is one of the top Club Fitting Facilities in the Country and is designated as a Golf Digest Top 100 Club Fitter, a Titleist Regional Club Fitting Center (one of 4 in the country), was the first off-course Ping National Club Fitter of the Year and has been recognized as one of the Best 100 Golf Shops in the country by Golf Digest/AGM since 1999.

[old man1953]

  Kenny Lee said:

Go to Miles of Golf in Ann Arbor, MI. [COLOR=777777]Miles of Golf is one of the top Club Fitting Facilities in the Country and is designated as a Golf Digest Top 100 Club Fitter, a Titleist Regional Club Fitting Center (one of 4 in the country), was the first off-course Ping National Club Fitter of the Year and has been recognized as one of the Best 100 Golf Shops in the country by Golf Digest/AGM since 1999.[/COLOR]

Thanks. Didn't look at them

[rcwkent]

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I did my research on the fitters near by. Any advice? Anything you would have done differently? Or did you just go into it with the trust and knew that once the info was there you would be paired up with right clubs? I am 62 and told fitter I was quite willing to do a analysis before hand if it would " maybe" make a difference. He told me it would really be a waste of money. To go to practice range a few times to make sure I was bringing my real swing, then come in with an open mind and trust the results. Did you find that to be the case?

I'm also 62, kinda short and a slower swing speed.

They had Flightscope and Trakman....they had indoor and outdoor facilities. Tried out 6  GI models...Callaway,Ping,Titleist, Mizuna, TM, Cobra.

I hit with them all. Quickly started eliminating......I hated a couple for the way hey looked from above. Another cuz I didn't like the feel. that was 10 minutes. My results with another was inferior to the last two...With the results of the last 2 pretty much the same..I chose the one that I felt looked and felt better.  Like I said before I was very surprised at the brand it turned out to be.

Then we worked on the shaft type. Stiff was not an option for my swing speed. I assumed I'd get a "senior"shaft...but the results were clear that I was performing much better with the regular shaft...another surprise.  He determined the kick point too.   Then we worked on the lie angle.

We talked about grip model and  size...went with factory equipment

Took about 90 minutes...and I ordered the set right then. They deducted the cost of the fitting from my set. No way I could have come up with these clubs on my own.

[dennyjones]

I went to Carl's Golfland two years ago.  It was a two day process with the Irons on day 1 and the driver on day 2.   I still have the trackman numbers.    I ended up buying a driver but I can't say it was custom fit for me.   Maybe I wasn't quite good enough to justify a fitting but the numbers on several clubs that I tested weren't as good as the set I was using.

One thing I do remember though, day 2 was physically demanding.   I swung so many times on Saturday that I was sore the next day.

Good luck.    I've heard some very good things about Miles of Golf.