What is Custom Golf Club-Fitting?

Custom club-fitting is an assembly process of the three main components of a golf club - namely the grip, shaft and club-head - incorporating vitally the primarily technical parameters – namely grip’s size/weight, shaft weight/length/flex and club-head design/material of the components to suit a golfer‘s physical abilities and swing characteristics.

Who Plays With Custom Fitted clubs?

Professionals, Senior Tour professionals, top amateurs, even college golfers play with clubs that have been custom made to suit them. They know the advantages and the benefits that custom fitted clubs can make to allow them to play and feel better.

Why you should consider custom-fitted clubs?

People come in all shapes and sizes. They have different athletic abilities and swing characteristics. It just makes sense that no single club is right for all golfers. The grip is the only contact the golfer has with the club, it must be the correct size to fit and assist your arms, wrists and hands to turn and hinge for enhancing maximum power control during your swing and golf shot performance. Some golfers are stronger and need a heavier shaft with stiffer flex on. Some golfers are taller or shorter and need clubs of specific length with proper balance of the clubs. The combination of variables is almost endless.

Proper fitting of clubs is a theory and a science of its own. The ultimate aim is to make the clubs easier for a golfer to perform the proper swing or making the clubs to suit a golfer’s swing ability so that it will make the learning curve for a golfer much shorter.

What could happen when playing with clubs not suited for your swing characteristic?

Playing with clubs that are not properly fitted to your swing ability and characteristics means that you will soon be working yourself into many self-conscious adjustments – from your address posture and ways to hold each of your club to the ball placing position, from your swing movement to swing plane for each and every club in your bags etc….

Many golfers are unaware from the angle of sport medicine on how the physiology of the body works in a golf swing. Permanent and common injuries such as psoas muscle pain (back ache symptoms), flexor and extensor tendonitis (forearm muscles) and shoulder-bursitis will occur when your unconscious adjustments have seriously stressed on some part of the body muscles during your swing. These injuries may hamper the learning of the golf game and thereby result in frustration and even disinterest to the point of wanting to give up the sport.