Oddsocks
Ryder Cup Winner
In my recent quest for new bats and trying many different off the shelf sets nothing has really set the world on fire and inspired me to part with my hard earned. In recent weeks I've tried razr x forged/px6.0, mp63/s300, mp54/xps300 s55/CFS, s56/s300, i20/awt, but as I've stated so,etching wasn't quite right.
With this in mind I phoned AG new Malden and spoke with zee who was the fitter that fitted my amp driver that has proved reliable and consistent over the last two years.
Upon getting there it was the normal 50 balls on the range warm up before talking zee through what issues I was seeing in my game and why I was looking to change and to what, I'd explained that I wanted a slightly lower flight, but not worried about distance it was solely control and lower dispersion that I was seeking, as it seems I'm losing shots by missing greens from a inside 150 yards, I'd explained that although the razr's fitted with px6.0 didn't work great, the shaft seemed to produce a tight dispersion although they was down on length by at least a club so it was obvious the shaft wasn't working quite right,
After a static measurement it was decided that even though im 6.1" with long arms standard length would suit. a session on the DNA swing analyser we whittled it down to 3 shafts, the xps105 stiff which is the new version of what I am using at the moment, the Kbs tour stiff and also the px5.5, the DNA was showing the TT r300 for my swing speed of 82 with a 6i but we was convinced this wasn't quite right so threw the r300 and s300 in just to rule them out.
after 10 shots with each on the range using the mp64 head which I quite fancied, using flight scope we were looking at spin, smash factors and flight height and it was clear that my current bats wasn't that bad. The mp64/xps105 combo was producing 5200rpm spin, with the px5.5 and Kbs producing around 5500-5800, but although everything was very close in comparison, the spin on my current set was only 4800.
Zee picked up on something that I hadn't looked at, Lie angles! He noticed I was slightly toe up at address due to having longer arms even though I'm 6.1" I was hitting toe up at contact which was causing the strike to me more consistent from the heel end of the club, so the head wasn't producing a pure strike. We hit the indoor trackman again and with the strike board coupled with a 7i we hit around 5 balls with my current sticks and jackpot, the strike was constantly out of the heel of the club. I was hitting my 7i around 165 on the trackman which is exactly what I hit on the course, zee asked if he could bend my 7i 1 degree flat to test something. 5 mins later and he was back with my flat 7i which was then hit to compare against the previous 5 balls.
My draw had softened, the strike was clean out the middle compared with the previous strike sticker that has showed it was from the heel, and the the strike test on the bottom showed 0 degree bend required, instead of the previous which was evenly spread between 0 and -2*
We tested this method with the 6I also and likewise the result were positive, my current carry is 175 with a 6i, this went up to 185 once it was bent 1* flatter
So after all this trial and error and going into a superstore with an open wallet for a custom fit, my total spend was £27.00 on having all my irons bent 1* flatter.
Zee asked me to play these for at least a month or two before deciding whether I still wanted new bats but he would be happy to see me again in a few months if I want to revisit.
Now I know AG Generally get some bad reports on sales man selling clubs that are not suited just for a sale, but this is the total opposite, I could have walked out of there 600/700 worse off with clubs that performed no better than my currents, instead it cost me less than a green fee at a local pay and play with instant improved results.
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With this in mind I phoned AG new Malden and spoke with zee who was the fitter that fitted my amp driver that has proved reliable and consistent over the last two years.
Upon getting there it was the normal 50 balls on the range warm up before talking zee through what issues I was seeing in my game and why I was looking to change and to what, I'd explained that I wanted a slightly lower flight, but not worried about distance it was solely control and lower dispersion that I was seeking, as it seems I'm losing shots by missing greens from a inside 150 yards, I'd explained that although the razr's fitted with px6.0 didn't work great, the shaft seemed to produce a tight dispersion although they was down on length by at least a club so it was obvious the shaft wasn't working quite right,
After a static measurement it was decided that even though im 6.1" with long arms standard length would suit. a session on the DNA swing analyser we whittled it down to 3 shafts, the xps105 stiff which is the new version of what I am using at the moment, the Kbs tour stiff and also the px5.5, the DNA was showing the TT r300 for my swing speed of 82 with a 6i but we was convinced this wasn't quite right so threw the r300 and s300 in just to rule them out.
after 10 shots with each on the range using the mp64 head which I quite fancied, using flight scope we were looking at spin, smash factors and flight height and it was clear that my current bats wasn't that bad. The mp64/xps105 combo was producing 5200rpm spin, with the px5.5 and Kbs producing around 5500-5800, but although everything was very close in comparison, the spin on my current set was only 4800.
Zee picked up on something that I hadn't looked at, Lie angles! He noticed I was slightly toe up at address due to having longer arms even though I'm 6.1" I was hitting toe up at contact which was causing the strike to me more consistent from the heel end of the club, so the head wasn't producing a pure strike. We hit the indoor trackman again and with the strike board coupled with a 7i we hit around 5 balls with my current sticks and jackpot, the strike was constantly out of the heel of the club. I was hitting my 7i around 165 on the trackman which is exactly what I hit on the course, zee asked if he could bend my 7i 1 degree flat to test something. 5 mins later and he was back with my flat 7i which was then hit to compare against the previous 5 balls.
My draw had softened, the strike was clean out the middle compared with the previous strike sticker that has showed it was from the heel, and the the strike test on the bottom showed 0 degree bend required, instead of the previous which was evenly spread between 0 and -2*
We tested this method with the 6I also and likewise the result were positive, my current carry is 175 with a 6i, this went up to 185 once it was bent 1* flatter
So after all this trial and error and going into a superstore with an open wallet for a custom fit, my total spend was £27.00 on having all my irons bent 1* flatter.
Zee asked me to play these for at least a month or two before deciding whether I still wanted new bats but he would be happy to see me again in a few months if I want to revisit.
Now I know AG Generally get some bad reports on sales man selling clubs that are not suited just for a sale, but this is the total opposite, I could have walked out of there 600/700 worse off with clubs that performed no better than my currents, instead it cost me less than a green fee at a local pay and play with instant improved results.
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