How a Good Fitting Affects Your Golf

Golf fitting is the study carried out to adapt your equipment to your physique and your playing style. At Handmade Custom Clubs, we know that a good fitting is key to improving your performance and enhancing every aspect of your game. If you're wondering how a good fitting affects your golf, you've come to the right place. Keep reading!

The goal of a good fitting is to make each club a natural extension of your body, allowing you to achieve greater consistency, accuracy and power with every shot. Every golfer is unique, and the sheer number of variations in swing, stance and stroke speed mean that there is no “one size fits all” set of clubs. 

A golf fitting is what allows you to know what you need and adjust the length, loft, lie, swingweight and grip on your clubs to suit you. Your clubs should fit you, not you to them.

We are going to try to explain to you, in detail, how a good fitting affects your golf, taking into account different factors.

Before we begin, here's a video that might interest you:

How a good fitting affects your golf: its impact on technique and performance

Normally, a good fitting will help you improve in:

The distance:

One of the biggest benefits of a good fitting is the considerable increase in distance. Adjusting the shaft, swingweight, loft, and lie of each club allows you to achieve a better launch angle, which maximizes ball speed and allows you to better utilize the energy generated in your swing. Therefore, a good fitting can help you achieve greater distances.

Accuracy and consistency of hits:

The goal of having golf clubs that are perfectly tailored to you is that your shots become more predictable and consistent. By being able to customize the different aspects of each club, you can achieve better balance in each swing. 

Injury prevention

A good fit not only benefits your game, but also helps you avoid potential injuries and damage. Poorly fitted equipment can force you into incorrect postures. 

Key technical aspects in a golf fitting

We are going to show you the most important technical aspects that are worked on in a fitting:

Loft, lie, flexibility and swingweight

• Loft: An improperly adjusted loft can cause the ball to rise too much or, conversely, not achieve the height you need.
  
• Lie: An incorrect lie can cause constant deviations.
  
• Flexibility: Shaft flex should match your swing speed. A shaft that is too stiff or too flexible can affect accuracy and distance.
  
• Swingweight: The weight distribution of the club influences the feel during the swing. Proper balance allows for greater control and greater consistency in strokes.

Importance of grip and its custom fit

The grip, the only point of direct contact between you and the club, is essential to maintaining good control. The grip must fit your hands and your gripping style, so customizing it is essential in the fitting process.

What is a good professional fitting like?

We can tell you about our fitting, which we consider to be full equip and has clear differences with other fittings.

This is the procedure we use at HCC:

Evaluating your material: First we review lie, loft, swingweight, frequency, length and grip size.

Evaluating your vision of your game: You rate yourself in the different segments and we extract the necessary information to know how your game is.

Data collection: We work with Trackman Flightscope and SAM PuttLab, in an outdoor studio where the player can see in real life their progress and the goals we work on during their Xperience with Miki Rapado. The benefit of doing a fitting outdoors is that it is done with the real parameters (height, pressure, temperature and wind) that you can find while playing.

Analysis in static and dynamic stance: What many players don't know is that the fitters do the analysis by taking only static measurements that are of little significance to us. At HCC, we also assess how the player's body works with the stick in his hands.

Data analysis: Our ultimate goal is not to sell, but to improve your performance.

We invite you to read our article: What is a Golf Fitting and How Should It Be Done?

At Handmade Custom Clubs we are specialists in creating Custom Golf Clubs

At Handmade Custom Clubs we are specialists in the creation of custom golf clubs . We use advanced fitting techniques and cutting-edge technology. The goal is for you to improve your performance in the game with the fitting.

If you want to find out how a good fitting affects your golf, we encourage you to book a fitting with us. We are ready to help you transform your game with custom golf clubs that fit you.