If you really want lower scores, let your fitter make the rules | Fully Equipped
On this week’s episode of the Fully Equipped Podcast, Jake and McKenzie discuss setting guidelines for your fittings.
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On this week’s episode of the Fully Equipped Podcast, Jake and McKenzie discuss setting guidelines for your fittings.
The post If you really want lower scores, let your fitter make the rules | Fully Equipped appeared first on Golf.
On this week’s episode of the Fully Equipped Podcast, I got to sit down and introduce our new team member, McKenzie Steenson, to chat about coming up in the golf industry, how I was able to snatch her up for the GOLF team and some interesting fitting topics she wanted to discuss. One of those topics was how I handle my own fittings and how I plan to handle my fittings moving forward as we embark on our 2027 launch content production trip.
“What are these fittings like for you and these fitters when you are someone who has, not biases, but you understand so well what’s going on and what’s happening, but you put your own voice in the fitting,” Steenson asked.
“It’s the fitters that establish those (my) rules,” I responded. “So, Duane (TaylorMade) and Hunter (Titleist) were both like, ‘I’m never giving you a driver that has more weight in the front. Period.’ They’ve both said that if there was a max-style head that kept up with me, they would love to put me into it.”
These rules for my game actually go back to before I was employed with GOLF when I had a chance to visit the TaylorMade Kingdom and get fit for the Qi35 with Matt Simone and Duane Anderson. During the fitting, we realized that having me play anything with a forward weight bias significantly affected my ability to get the head through the ball properly.
Typically, this made me end up with a pretty weak push miss that didn’t have enough launch. As a player who likes to see the ball fall left and wants to hit it as high as reasonably possible, that wasn’t going to work. Since then, I don’t even test heads with the weight bias in the front; I always start with it in the back. Hasn’t failed me yet.
When I visited TPI for my GTS fitting, Hunter referenced that video of mine, and while we tried all the heads and weight settings between them, it was clear we needed something back-weighted just for the sake of strike. The GTS4 back-weighted wasn’t enough spin, and the GTS2 back-weighted produced an unreasonable flight for my game. But the GTS3 back-weighted was perfect. We actually even added more weight to the back of it than the standard configuration.
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“So as the driver head [in this example] is to you a problem to solve, we are the fitter’s problem to solve,” Steenson said.
Precisely.
Let your fitters do their jobs! They are trained to get you properly geared up for the season. In an ideal world, you find “your guy”. The fitter that you keep going back to. I’m lucky enough to work with all the OEMs consistently, so I have “a guy” at each of them, plus friends in fitting who can help my game outside those. Being able to rely on somebody who truly knows and cares about your game is a massive advantage to the confidence you feel with your clubs in your hands.
If you’re looking for “your guy,” book a fitting with your local True Spec Golf and start building that relationship.
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