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£50 putter fitting - am I mad?

So in effect it will be £ 50 plus the cost of a new putter when they inevitably tell you your existing one is not best for your game. I suppose if the scores come down then it will be worth it. But it's a bit mean not offering you any money off a new putter. Even the Belfry knocks the price of your fitting off any new clubs.
 
I would only pay for this if I could honestly tell myself that I have practised as hard as I could at my putting and knew my stats i.e:

-How many one putts / two putts / three putts
-%ages from various distances
-% missed left, right, long or short
 
I bet a one hour lesson is usually £40 minimum for a decent pro so it doesnt seem bad to me. The fact your getting fitted & also sort of a lesson in the hour will prove valuable imo. They seem to use top notch technology as well so you know they arent messing around. I suppose it only needs doing once as well so its not like you will ever need to pay it again.

Im considering having one too, putting is the most valuable part of golf and you can never be too good at it imo. The only thing stopping me at the moment is the likelihood of shelling out for a new putter.
 
The putter is the most used club in the bag, I would pay to get it right. Besides at my level most of the shots I could save are with my short game rather than off the tee with a club I might only use 12 times a round.

Having said that I would have thought they would have knocked something off the price.
 
I think its well worth £50. To put it in perspective, where we did the TM fitting in the TM lab at Wentworth, its £100 for a driver fitting and £200 for a set of clubs (1hr and 2hr sessions) this is non refundable even if you buy a £1500 new set.

£50 for a putter session and at the end you know you have 100% the right tool in your hand after is value for money IMHO.

Like Gibbo said, what is £50 these days, a dozen pro V1 and some tee's, dinner out with the Mrs, half a tank of fuel, half the weekly shop, a new jumper etc etc..

Depends if you want to improve your game i suppose? i would pay it though... (or wait for a GM fitting day! LOL)
 
Valentino said:
Too expensive mate, I'm sure Gareth will be on shortly to tell of his experience at clubhouse golf
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Damn!! How did I miss this!!

It's true what Val' says. Clubhouse golf offer a ftting service, that where I was fitted for my Scotty Cameron. Fantastic way to spend a morning.

Having said that, £50 for what you're getting is pretty good IMHO. I'd pay it :thup:
 
I'd pay it for the fitting and lesson, especially it being an hour but, the thing that would frighten me is at the end when they say "right, you need this £260.00 putter, shall I wrap it for you?" and then you cough up £310.00 :eek:
 
Sounds a decent deal to me, for an hour of pro time and use to top not measuring kit.
And to walk away knowing what suits your putting style can only gain confidence and send you hurtling toward Cat 1.
 
If this is a proper analysis and an assessment of putting technique, I think it is worth doing. If it is just a fitting for length, lie etc, it should be offset against the price.

Sounds like it is closer to the former.
 
I went through a similar process this year with my coach. I had an intensive 1 hour putting lesson (so more than £50) in which we determined my flaws in technique and worked on those. At the time he did say my putter was totally at odds with my technique (face balanced needed toe weighted) BUT to go and work on my technique first. Went back a few weeks later for a fitting (free) and bought the suggested putter with a spec to suit my technique (anser style, shorter length and extra 1 degree loft). End result is I am putting much better and much more confidently. I never ever nailed a longish putt (or v rarely) and nowadays get a couple per round. I can still be a bit shaky on those short should get but might miss ones but my extra confidence helps there too.

Money well spent if you ask me.
 
For me, it's not so much the £50... but that none it counts towards your purchase. And no doubt the price you pay on the putter will be top whack.

In this day and age, people (well, I) expect to get a deal on anything and everything. This doesn't shout "deal" to me.

Perhaps worth giving tourxgolf a call as you say, although I've not yet used him / been there.
 
I'd say give it a go if you have the cash. Putting is where we we spend half of the game. Key thing is once you identify what you need, stick with it. Having the right putter is obviously only the start. Hard work and correct practice is the best way to improve. I'd say when I probably spend half of my practice time on the putting green and I knocked a good 5 strokes a round off when I eventually settled on a scotty Newport 1.5. I found it easy to blame the putter and switch but in reality, it made things worse.

Good luck and enjoy the hour. You may learn something you never knew.
 
Well worth it I reckon. What do they say "Drive for Show, Putt for Dough!"

Considering the prices we pay for equipment (and a round / membership) it's money well spent

I got a series of lessons in a block booking a few years back - the most game changing ones for me were the 2 lessons I had on putting.
 
I rang these up and had a brief discussion about me feeling something must be up with my putter as Id started to do the more than occasional 3 putt which just isnt like me, assuming the £50 was at least part refunded as I was planning on a new scotty at £229. I was quite shocked to realise not as penny was coming off the new putter!

Might be worth double checking but this was in no way intended to be a lesson plus fitting according to the bloke I spoke to. So basically the fact that I had basically forgot my usual putting stroke was my biggest problem and nothing to do with my putter. Im standard lie and loft on nearly all the fittings Ive ever had so the chances of me getting a putter than was off standard would be unusual to say the least. Went to see my local pro and he just asked why I was crouching more than I usally did and hey presto I was back!

Sometimes we look at external problems rather than the actual problem (ourselves). Sometimes it just takes a change of putter to give you a different look and therefore confidence
 
Considering the price of a normal lesson from some pro's, it doesn't seem too be that bad of a deal. Lesson, analysis and fitting which will hopefully solve your putting, is probably worth it for that price
 
Am really interested to see how it goes and the changes he reccommends! I think £50 is a fair price. It's a pretty comprehensive fit.
What do they do differently at Clubhouse golf?!?
 
Liqdaddymac said:
this!
I always assumed being 6'2 and having 1/2" longer Irons that I would need a longer putter....use a 32.75 inch putter and am generally between 28-31 putts with the odd 26 or 33. Had 29 putts round Royal Porthcawl in November. I always tell my buddies that if you have one lesson then it should be a putting one!
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I'm 6'1 and I'm just having my putter cut down to 32.5" I hunch right over to get my eyes over the ball as the pro taught me :D
 
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