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WARNING - Long post. Please turn away now if you're easily bored 
As I mentioned in another thread I was going to The Belfry today to be fitted for a Driver, and hopefully if time allowed, a 3 wood, and possibly a Mizuno MP Fli-Hi.
I didn't want to risk being late so I left plenty of time to get there and it took 15 minutes less than Google maps said it would so I was there about 45 minutes early.
I had a walk towards the course and stood near the 10th tee to have a look because I'd never been there before.
I guess it's different with a club in hand, but I'd definitely have a go at the green. It doesn't look as bad as I imagined it.
Walked in to the fitting centre early as I'd been told on the phone when I booked to turn up 15 minutes early and they'd give me some balls to warm up with. They wanted to sell me some balls so I declined on principal. That might have turned out to be a mistake
I was still waiting for my turn 20 minutes after my appointment time so that and the balls wasn't the best of starts but it gave me some confidence that they'd be thorough, as he was still dealing with his last appointment.
Into the bay (more like a room with an open front) and hit about 5 drives with my own club as a benchmark. This was when I wished I'd warmed up as there was a couple of stinkers in there.
He then explained in detail what all the numbers meant, and where he was going to try to get them to with different shafts. The shaft flex was ok, but he thought it was a little heavy, too stiff in the tip which was contributing to my low launch angle, and too much or too little torque. Can't remember which but it was leaving the face open.
Figs...
Launch angle ~10 degrees
Backspin ~2k rpm
Carry ~220yds
Then came the messing about with different heads and shafts, and because I didn't want any pre-conceived ideas to cloud my judgement I purposely didn't take any notice of what I was hitting. I could tell what make club I had from looking down on the head, but I didn't look at the loft or type of shaft.
It was purely let the fitter give me different clubs and hit them.
I hit a few different configurations of 910D2, a G15, and a new Nike club. I don't know what model it was but he said they'd only came in today and I was the first to try it.
I'm glad the Nike wasn't the best because it made an awful noise!
The best combination in the end was the 10.5 degree 910D2 with a stiff Project-X shaft, with the club on the A4 setting which is neutral and +1.5 degrees of loft so it was actually 12 degrees when I was using it.
There was a shaft (don't know what it was, but it was red) that gave me a slightly better feeling on the hits, but the fitter thought the torque was slightly wrong as it was going more left, and it was about on the limit for stiffness so if I ever went after one I'd run more risk of losing control.
The final figures with that combination were...
Launch angle ~14 degrees
Backspin ~2,700rpm
Carry ~240yds
Very happy with the distance because the range balls looked like they'd seen better days and there was a fairly stiff breeze coming in from about 2 o'clock.
Club speed and ball speed stayed pretty much the same I think at about 103 & high 140's. The extra distance came purely from getting a better flight on the ball. I'd lost about 4mph on my ss since I was originally fitted but I expected that because I've calmed my swing down a bit since then and try to hit it easy now.
The dispersion on the 910 was also about half of what it was with any of the other clubs.
I then tried the 910 3 wood. He thought the Project-X shaft would again suit best but since they're not officially released yet (he said, the 910F) he didn't have one so picked what he thought was the closest he had to it. Even with the same setting as the driver ie. +1.5 degrees I was hitting the ball too low. They were going about 220yds though so happy with that too.
I mentioned I was thinking about swapping 3 wood and 2 hybrid for something inbetween the 2 yardage wise, so he gave me a 17 degree 910F to try, again +1.5 degrees so it played 18.5
Result : lovely flight and 230yds
I think it's a no brainer which fairway wood I'm going to order!
Obviously hardly any roll though so the driver stays for now.
My time was sort of up, but I didn't feel bad asking to try an 18 degree (2 iron) MP Fli-Hi since I started 20 minutes late.
Spanner in the works time!
Even though it had an S300 shaft and I prefer Project-X in my irons I hit it lovely. The LM had already been turned off but I wasn't too bothered about the numbers with this, it was just whether or not I got on with it, and I did.
It looked a bit chunkier than I expected it to, you can see the thick sole sticking out the back at address, but nowhere near as bad (for me at least) as looking down at a hybrid club.
So as I said in the title, decisions to be made.
The driver and fairway wood I'm certain about, but in my mind I was thinking that the 4 wood would be shorter than the 3 so I could lose the hybrid, go straight to 3 iron and keep all my wedges.
Now I don't know whether to get the 2 iron to fill the gap and make the choice each round about which club to leave in the boot, or get the MP Fli-Hi 3 iron instead of my own 3 iron so I only have 14 clubs but have a yardage gap (albeit smaller than now because the MP 3 should go further than mine) at the long end.
Or something else.
I thought these fittings were supposed to make life easier
Sorry again for the long post. If you've stayed with it thank you and treat yourself to a jelly bean
You wouldn't think I struggled at school to fill my quota of words in English essays!
As I mentioned in another thread I was going to The Belfry today to be fitted for a Driver, and hopefully if time allowed, a 3 wood, and possibly a Mizuno MP Fli-Hi.
I didn't want to risk being late so I left plenty of time to get there and it took 15 minutes less than Google maps said it would so I was there about 45 minutes early.
I had a walk towards the course and stood near the 10th tee to have a look because I'd never been there before.
I guess it's different with a club in hand, but I'd definitely have a go at the green. It doesn't look as bad as I imagined it.
Walked in to the fitting centre early as I'd been told on the phone when I booked to turn up 15 minutes early and they'd give me some balls to warm up with. They wanted to sell me some balls so I declined on principal. That might have turned out to be a mistake
I was still waiting for my turn 20 minutes after my appointment time so that and the balls wasn't the best of starts but it gave me some confidence that they'd be thorough, as he was still dealing with his last appointment.
Into the bay (more like a room with an open front) and hit about 5 drives with my own club as a benchmark. This was when I wished I'd warmed up as there was a couple of stinkers in there.
He then explained in detail what all the numbers meant, and where he was going to try to get them to with different shafts. The shaft flex was ok, but he thought it was a little heavy, too stiff in the tip which was contributing to my low launch angle, and too much or too little torque. Can't remember which but it was leaving the face open.
Figs...
Launch angle ~10 degrees
Backspin ~2k rpm
Carry ~220yds
Then came the messing about with different heads and shafts, and because I didn't want any pre-conceived ideas to cloud my judgement I purposely didn't take any notice of what I was hitting. I could tell what make club I had from looking down on the head, but I didn't look at the loft or type of shaft.
It was purely let the fitter give me different clubs and hit them.
I hit a few different configurations of 910D2, a G15, and a new Nike club. I don't know what model it was but he said they'd only came in today and I was the first to try it.
I'm glad the Nike wasn't the best because it made an awful noise!
The best combination in the end was the 10.5 degree 910D2 with a stiff Project-X shaft, with the club on the A4 setting which is neutral and +1.5 degrees of loft so it was actually 12 degrees when I was using it.
There was a shaft (don't know what it was, but it was red) that gave me a slightly better feeling on the hits, but the fitter thought the torque was slightly wrong as it was going more left, and it was about on the limit for stiffness so if I ever went after one I'd run more risk of losing control.
The final figures with that combination were...
Launch angle ~14 degrees
Backspin ~2,700rpm
Carry ~240yds
Very happy with the distance because the range balls looked like they'd seen better days and there was a fairly stiff breeze coming in from about 2 o'clock.
Club speed and ball speed stayed pretty much the same I think at about 103 & high 140's. The extra distance came purely from getting a better flight on the ball. I'd lost about 4mph on my ss since I was originally fitted but I expected that because I've calmed my swing down a bit since then and try to hit it easy now.
The dispersion on the 910 was also about half of what it was with any of the other clubs.
I then tried the 910 3 wood. He thought the Project-X shaft would again suit best but since they're not officially released yet (he said, the 910F) he didn't have one so picked what he thought was the closest he had to it. Even with the same setting as the driver ie. +1.5 degrees I was hitting the ball too low. They were going about 220yds though so happy with that too.
I mentioned I was thinking about swapping 3 wood and 2 hybrid for something inbetween the 2 yardage wise, so he gave me a 17 degree 910F to try, again +1.5 degrees so it played 18.5
Result : lovely flight and 230yds
I think it's a no brainer which fairway wood I'm going to order!
Obviously hardly any roll though so the driver stays for now.
My time was sort of up, but I didn't feel bad asking to try an 18 degree (2 iron) MP Fli-Hi since I started 20 minutes late.
Spanner in the works time!
Even though it had an S300 shaft and I prefer Project-X in my irons I hit it lovely. The LM had already been turned off but I wasn't too bothered about the numbers with this, it was just whether or not I got on with it, and I did.
It looked a bit chunkier than I expected it to, you can see the thick sole sticking out the back at address, but nowhere near as bad (for me at least) as looking down at a hybrid club.
So as I said in the title, decisions to be made.
The driver and fairway wood I'm certain about, but in my mind I was thinking that the 4 wood would be shorter than the 3 so I could lose the hybrid, go straight to 3 iron and keep all my wedges.
Now I don't know whether to get the 2 iron to fill the gap and make the choice each round about which club to leave in the boot, or get the MP Fli-Hi 3 iron instead of my own 3 iron so I only have 14 clubs but have a yardage gap (albeit smaller than now because the MP 3 should go further than mine) at the long end.
Or something else.
I thought these fittings were supposed to make life easier
Sorry again for the long post. If you've stayed with it thank you and treat yourself to a jelly bean
You wouldn't think I struggled at school to fill my quota of words in English essays!
