RGuk
Tour Winner
When he got to the course and played off the grass he was all over the place because the ground gave different resistance to a matt and allowed his club to take a divot, so he wanted them sent back to be made standard again.
I'm not a big C-F fan, especially as I bought a set of Mizunos that I couldn't play with from day one.
BUT, this story has got nothing to do with mats or turf or whatever...this is a simple case of someone standing/doing different (closer, further, on his head, whatever, alignment, swing thought, etc.) on the course......surely??
Out on the grass, the only effect would be that "if" the clubs were too upright or too flat the face would close more or open more at impact. I took my A wedge to the club-fitter yesterday and he said straight off "are you hooking this?" too which I replied, yes, a tad. He knew straight away from the lie. If the lie was professionaly checked after repeated swings by a pro club fitter, then that'll be correct (unless the fitter was crap).
I'd say a first go out is NO measure how things are going to be.....either your mate needs to practice 100's of balls with the new kit or work out why he was standing/swinging different on the course compared to the fitting session.