Welcome to Custom By Kadin.
I would like to share with you what custom clubfitting involves and how it is VERY different from any other "fitting" you may have gone through as described by my mentor Tom Wishon.
Professional Custom Clubfitting involves matching each of the 13 key clubfitting elements for every club in the bag to each golfer's combination of size, strength, athletic ability and swing characteristics.
A colleague of ours in the custom clubmaking industry once made an analogy between custom clubfitting and washing your car that we believe to be very appropriate.
If your car is dirty and trashed out, you can pull it into the driveway, hook up the hose and spray off most of the surface dirt and grime. On the other hand, you can do a better job washing your car by filling a bucket with soapy water and scrub off all of the dirt with a sponge. Or, you can pull out all of the stops and not only scrub the outside of the car, but wash, wipe, vacuum and detail the inside as well as finish with a wax and buff job. Yet all of these can be considered to be "washing your car".
Professional Custom Clubfitting is very much the same way. There are different options available in the golf business, all of which are termed by some to be a "custom fitting". The problem is, since 98% of all golfers really don't know what constitutes a Professional Custom Clubfitting, it's easy to think you're getting the "full detail job" when you're really ending up with a "hose job".
Golf clubs have been sold off the rack in pro shops and retail store pre-built to a series of standard specifications because this is the only way the big golf companies can sell the volume of clubs they need to sell to achieve the highest level of sales. Golf is admittedly a difficult game to master, but it is made more difficult when a population of golfers who are anything but standard make the mistake of buying golf clubs which are mass produced to one series of standard specifications.
Don't make the mistake of buying golf clubs on the basis of brand name, model name or what pros play that brand. Don't believe the myth that custom fit golf clubs only help low handicap golfers. Professionally custom fit golf clubs are proven to enable golfers of all abilities, and especially those with a handicap between 12 and 25, to be able to play to the best of their ability.
I would like to share with you what custom clubfitting involves and how it is VERY different from any other "fitting" you may have gone through as described by my mentor Tom Wishon.
Professional Custom Clubfitting involves matching each of the 13 key clubfitting elements for every club in the bag to each golfer's combination of size, strength, athletic ability and swing characteristics.
A colleague of ours in the custom clubmaking industry once made an analogy between custom clubfitting and washing your car that we believe to be very appropriate.
If your car is dirty and trashed out, you can pull it into the driveway, hook up the hose and spray off most of the surface dirt and grime. On the other hand, you can do a better job washing your car by filling a bucket with soapy water and scrub off all of the dirt with a sponge. Or, you can pull out all of the stops and not only scrub the outside of the car, but wash, wipe, vacuum and detail the inside as well as finish with a wax and buff job. Yet all of these can be considered to be "washing your car".
Professional Custom Clubfitting is very much the same way. There are different options available in the golf business, all of which are termed by some to be a "custom fitting". The problem is, since 98% of all golfers really don't know what constitutes a Professional Custom Clubfitting, it's easy to think you're getting the "full detail job" when you're really ending up with a "hose job".
- Professional Custom Clubfitting is not answering five or six question on a website to be "fit".
- Professional Custom Clubfitting is not a cart filled with different golf clubs sitting in a pro shop or on a practice range.
- Professional Custom Clubfitting is not attending a Demo Day at your local driving range and hitting clubs until you find something you like.
- Professional Custom Clubfitting is not something that can be accomplished from start to finish in 20 minutes or less, regardless if you are hitting balls on a launch monitor.
- Professional Custom Clubfitting is not done by altering a limited number of specifications of an existing standard made set of golf clubs.
- Professional Custom Clubfitting is not buying a driver with an adjustable hosel that can only alter two of the thirteen key clubfitting specifications and only within a very limited range of options.
Golf clubs have been sold off the rack in pro shops and retail store pre-built to a series of standard specifications because this is the only way the big golf companies can sell the volume of clubs they need to sell to achieve the highest level of sales. Golf is admittedly a difficult game to master, but it is made more difficult when a population of golfers who are anything but standard make the mistake of buying golf clubs which are mass produced to one series of standard specifications.
Don't make the mistake of buying golf clubs on the basis of brand name, model name or what pros play that brand. Don't believe the myth that custom fit golf clubs only help low handicap golfers. Professionally custom fit golf clubs are proven to enable golfers of all abilities, and especially those with a handicap between 12 and 25, to be able to play to the best of their ability.
