Custom fitting for golf clubs is incredibly important if you’re looking to optimise your performance and enjoy a better golfing experience. Here’s why:
1. Improved Accuracy
Custom fitting ensures that your clubs match your swing style and body type, helping you hit the ball more accurately. If your clubs are too long, too short, or have the wrong lie angle, you may not be able to consistently hit the sweet spot, leading to inaccurate shots.
2. Better Distance
Finding the right shaft flex, length, and loft for you can increase your ball speed, leading to more distance. A custom fitting allows us to give you a club that helps you to make solid contact with the ball and maximise the energy transfer at impact.
3. Enhanced Comfort and Confidence
When your clubs are properly fitted to your swing, you’ll feel more comfortable and confident during your round. This can reduce discomfort and fatigue, allowing you to play longer without feeling strained.
4. Helps Swing Flaws
If you have certain swing flaws, such as an over-the-top move or a slice, custom fitted clubs can help you counteract these issues. For example, an adjusted lie angle or can promote a better start direction, helping to straighten undesirable shot shapes.
5. Personalised to Your Unique Needs
Everyone has a different body type and swing, which means one-size-fits-all clubs aren’t always ideal. A custom fitting takes into account factors like your height, wrist-to-floor measurement, swing speed, and ball flight preferences, ensuring you get clubs that suit your specific needs.
6. Maximises Your Potential
Even if you’re a beginner or an experienced golfer, custom fitting ensures that your clubs work with you—not against you. By optimising factors like shaft material, grip size, and club length, you’ll be able to perform at your best and improve your game over time.
7. Prevents Injury
Improperly fitted clubs can cause strain on your body, particularly on your joints and muscles. By ensuring the right fit, you’re more likely to prevent injury and reduce unnecessary stress on your body, especially during long rounds.
The Fitting Process:
- Customer Blueprint: We start by gathering information on your Static Physical measurements such as height and wrist to floor length. We then look at what you have in the bag and see where we can improve.
- Assessment of Player, Current Clubs & Swing Characteristics: Here we analyse how you swing your club as an individual and build a database of information such as club-head speed, spin rate etc with your current set of clubs using Trackman 4 Outdoors.
- Build Demo Clubs: Once we have gathered all relevant information we use our Professional knowledge and experience to assemble demo clubs built specifically to your characteristics. We then compare and contrast these club heads & shafts in order to optimise your ball flight and carry distance.
- Loft and Lie Angle Adjustments: We also adjust loft and lie angles to optimally suit your launch angles and start direction. This allows us to dial in carry distances and ensure your golf ball starts on target.
- Grip Size: The right grip size affects how comfortably you hold the club. We ensure to get the correct material and thickness to suit your hands! We even have a grip to help players with arthritis!
- Set Make-Up: This is the final step, we sit down and make sure that you have adequate clubs and or wedges to suit how you play. This is to ensure you have no major gaps in yardages from club to club.
We stock all major brands including; Titleist, TaylorMade, Callaway, Ping, Mizuno, Srixon and Wilson. Check out our online store here: www.birrgolfshop.ie
Conclusion:
Getting your clubs Custom fitted is an investment, it’s one that can significantly improve your game and help you enjoy golf more. If you’re serious about lowering your scores and playing your best, getting fitted for your clubs is definitely worth it. Even slight adjustments can lead to better results!
Written by Caolan Smith
PGA Professional,
Birr Golf Shop.
