Equipment
MOI Matching: Why Your Irons Are Built Differently Now
For most of the modern era, iron sets have been built to a single, simple target: matched swing weight. Every club in the bag, from the 4-iron down to the …
Club Fitting
Equipment
Groove Wear: The Reason Your Wedges Stopped Spinning It
There is a particular kind of disappointment reserved for a wedge shot that used to sit and now does not. You catch it clean, the same strike you have made a …
Equipment
Swing Weight: The Number on the Spec Sheet Nobody Explains
Pick up two drivers that share the same head, the same shaft model and flex, the same length and the same grip, and there is a decent chance they will still …
Equipment
Regular, Stiff, Whatever: Why Your Shaft Flex Label Barely Means Anything
Ask most golfers why they play a stiff shaft rather than a regular one and the answer usually comes back the same way: because someone once told them their …
Equipment
The Fitting Number Nobody Asks For: Why Lie Angle Decides Left and Right, Not Just Distance
Most amateurs who go looking for a fitting are chasing distance. They want to know if a stronger loft or a stiffer shaft will add ten yards, and those are …
Equipment
Grip Size: The Fitting Variable Almost Everyone Skips
Ask most golfers what a fitting session covers and they will list shaft flex, head design, maybe lie angle if they have been paying attention. Grip size rarely …
Equipment
Bounce and Grind, the Wedge Fitting Almost Nobody Bothers With
Most golfers buy a wedge the way they buy a loaf of bread. They look at the number stamped on the sole, decide they want a fifty-six, and take whichever one the …
Equipment
What a Driver Fitting Actually Changes
There is a particular kind of golfer who walks into a fitting bay convinced he already knows the answer. He wants the head the longest hitter on Tour is using, …
Equipment
Gapping Your Set: The Yardages Hiding Between Your Clubs
Ask most golfers how far they hit their seven iron and they will give you a number with great confidence. Ask them how far they hit the club between their …
Equipment
Hybrid, Five-Wood or Driving Iron: Sorting Out the Top of Your Bag
There is a stretch in almost every bag, somewhere between the fairway wood and the seven-iron, where the average golfer makes a decision out of habit rather …