How long should custom fitting take?

[Snelly]

I went to Precision Golf for a driver shaft fitting which took 2 hrs but it didn't take that long as they couldn't improve on the shaft I had already, so did a general look at my clubs and did a hybrid fit and he weighted my wedges as well.

Just done a wedge fitting with 2 of us which took 5hrs. Included a look at our putters and stroke, then general talk about design of wedges how they work, feel compared to our wedges, playing lots of differing shots and general chit chat and coffee break. Educational 5 hrs to say the least.

5 hours. Or 1 hour if you shorten your pre-shot routine.

 

[3565]

5 hours. Or 1 hour if you shorten your pre-shot routine.

Damn.......... I've been Sussed.........

 

[Birchy]

Some of the times taken to be fitted seem ages to me. Did you not get bored?

I honestly don't think I could spend 4-5 hours getting fitted.

 

[davidy233]

My fitting for my irons three weeks ago took an hour and a half - although to be honest it could have taken a fair bit less.

I'd already narrowed it down to what clubs I wanted by taking a heap of demos out onto the range and hitting balls with them - I originally wanted Ping G25s but wasn't keen after hitting the demo seven iron - Speedblades were night and day dispersion wise and feel at impact ahead of anything else for me.

Pro who did my fitting asked if I still wanted to try G25 against Speedblades so once I'd warmed up with my own irons I hit a few shots with each - that confirmed that I wasn't keen on the Pings.

Got hitting the speedblade seven iron nicely and he checked lie and where I was hitting the ball on the face while he asked me about my game (I'm off the shelf standard lie), what was my bad shot and I told him where I was with the lessons I've been having.

He asked if I'd been on a launch monitor before (no) and explained what the numbers meant - I was hitting directly into the wind and he told me that it was about two clubs, which my old club seemed to confirm.

To be honest the stock shaft would have done me nicely - but we tried several more options - some of which I hated straight away but one of which gave me exactly same results with a more solid feel - I went for that one, job done.

Mind you based on exactly standard, off the shelf being fine for me based on my fitting I bought a hybrid from Golf Depot online last week and I can't hit it worth a damn (I'd hit the same model hybrid, same spec and been reasonably OK with it before starting my lessons) - don't think I'll ever buy a club without trying it again and certainly wouldn't buy a driver without being fitted.

So in summary - hour and half for fitting - take ten minutes off for trying G25 - quarter of an hour chatting and five minutes for explaining what the numbers on Flitescope meant - about three quarters of an hour for actually fitting - enjoyed it a lot.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

3 hours?! That seems crazy. What could possibly take that long? 30 minutes for the iron fitting and then 2.5 hours of you telling the bloke he was doing it all wrong and arguing one assumes....

My view is that if it takes more than an hour then you are confused, hopeless, indecisive, delusional or having your ego stroked by a charlatan.

I was trying about 4 different models and a different amount of shafts for each model which took about an hour - then I took about just over an hour to fit each iron , then got the wedges and hybrids sorted. Hit them for about 20 mins after and then a few final tweaks at the end.

 

[drdel]

Just over 2hrs to revised and upgrade my Pings.

 

[CMAC]

Full set last year (minus wedges and putter) 30 mins start to finish.

Driver
Hybrid
3 Wood
3-PW irons

 

[3565]

Some of the times taken to be fitted seem ages to me. Did you not get bored?

I honestly don't think I could spend 4-5 hours getting fitted.

i can can honestly say, no I wasn't bored, Iain the fitter had a lot to learn from, and was keen to pass what he learnt from 15 yrs at Cleveland, and getting a service that really only pros get and quality wedges that you can't get from OEMs.

 

[Cheifi0]

Yes that has a bearing but really you are just trying to find the best shaft and head combination. 5 shafts to try? Easy to find the best in just a few shots with each surely? Then the heads on that shaft, same process. Job done.

I can see what your saying. I am thinking of replacing my irons at the minute but with so much choice I have no idea where to start.

 

[Jensen]

MY recent iron fitting was 2.5hrs, I had two guys sorting clubs for me, I'd hit a few shots then we, well I write we, I mean the fitter would analyse the video, then tweak what I was using.

I get what you write Snelly about find the right shaft then using that shaft, find the right head, but during the 2.5hrs I was fitted we did that with few different makes of club, so I got the best shaft head combo for Callaway, Mizuno, Titleist, Ping and TM, so come the end of the fitting I knew that the best I could do was with the best suited for me in several makes. I could then choose a new set of irons based upon a superb fitting and be confident what I chose was going to be good for me.

Where exactly was your fitting done ? Presumably somewhere in North East

 

[granters]

Mine took 30 mins in total. That being said, it was a Wilson fitting and I knew it was fg62's or fg tour v2's. Quick hit with both, v2 won. Then spent 20 mins trying shafts, and finally different grips.

2 years later I ended up with the fg 62's anyway! To be fair I was just taking up the game seriously again, so the fitter re comedies the easier to hit clubs.

I wouldn't fancy it taking more than an hour, it's tiring hitting all those balls

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Some of the times taken to be fitted seem ages to me. Did you not get bored?

I honestly don't think I could spend 4-5 hours getting fitted.

I wasn't bored at Pachesham. Took four hours with only a couple of 10 minute breaks when I started swinging like a plonker. It was split between the launch monitor and going out to the range and hitting the balls to see for myself how they flew

 

[nemicu]

The last time I was fitted, it took 4 sessions over as many weeks. I like being thorough . These days, I can convert my specs to anything I build within a few hours. Like anything else, the learning and transferring of the knowledge takes the greatest amount of time. The putting into practice part takes seconds. To fit a complete noob from scratch, I'd want at least a day - and a day for them to mull it over - before I started to build anything.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

I wasn't bored at Pachesham. Took four hours with only a couple of 10 minute breaks when I started swinging like a plonker. It was split between the launch monitor and going out to the range and hitting the balls to see for myself how they flew

What about the other 24 sessions

 

[Oddsocks]

I've had two fittings, one for irons and one for driver.

The driver fitting was around an hour all in, with the new drivers needing loft set up and god knows what ever else adjusted, I'd expect it to be slightly longer but not a lot.

Iron fitting was about the same, with then 15-20 mins adjusting the lie on my original irons as we couldn't find anything better

 

[MadAdey]

As long as it takes to get the correct fitting, after all that is what you are there for. If you do not want the job done properly then you can just use the online fitting system that PING have and get your fitting done in 5 minutes. My fitting took over 90 minutes to do for my irons.

 

[moogie]

Where exactly was your fitting done ? Presumably somewhere in North East

MY recent iron fitting was 2.5hrs, I had two guys sorting clubs for me, I'd hit a few shots then we, well I write we, I mean the fitter would analyse the video, then tweak what I was using.

I get what you write Snelly about find the right shaft then using that shaft, find the right head, but during the 2.5hrs I was fitted we did that with few different makes of club, so I got the best shaft head combo for Callaway, Mizuno, Titleist, Ping and TM, so come the end of the fitting I knew that the best I could do was with the best suited for me in several makes. I could then choose a new set of irons based upon a superb fitting and be confident what I chose was going to be good for me.

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