stevelockie
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As mentioned in my post relating to this topic. I went to St Andrews yesterday to get my ebay-bought irons (Bridgestone J33-CB) "retro fitted", and maybe look at my driver (ft-i 11 deg).
My fitter was Ed, one of the senior guys. Started with my 6 iron. He put some stickers on the face and sole, and marked the ball with a vertical line. I hit a couple of shots, length and lie were perfect. Did the same with the 9 iron, no problem.
I mentioned that the 7 iron and upward seemed to fly higher than I expected. So lies and loft for all irons were checked. The 4 & 5 were 0.5 deg upright. 6,7,8,9 and P had weaker lofts, from 0.5 deg on the 6 up to a whopping 2 degrees on the wedge. These were all adjusted back to standard (4 degrees difference between each).
Shafts were fine (Project X 5.5).
So, onto the driver. Was hitting the range balls a little high. Launch angle was high and we established I was hitting out of the upper part of the face, losing some distance as a result, my ball speed was between 125 and 135mph, but distance was lower due to it not being launched from the sweet spot. A combination of tee-ing the ball up lower and maybe working on plane with my coach should sort that out.
Iron swing speed was 75mph, and driver swing speed was a pedestrian 90-92mph.
All in all, very, very useful.
My fitter was Ed, one of the senior guys. Started with my 6 iron. He put some stickers on the face and sole, and marked the ball with a vertical line. I hit a couple of shots, length and lie were perfect. Did the same with the 9 iron, no problem.
I mentioned that the 7 iron and upward seemed to fly higher than I expected. So lies and loft for all irons were checked. The 4 & 5 were 0.5 deg upright. 6,7,8,9 and P had weaker lofts, from 0.5 deg on the 6 up to a whopping 2 degrees on the wedge. These were all adjusted back to standard (4 degrees difference between each).
Shafts were fine (Project X 5.5).
So, onto the driver. Was hitting the range balls a little high. Launch angle was high and we established I was hitting out of the upper part of the face, losing some distance as a result, my ball speed was between 125 and 135mph, but distance was lower due to it not being launched from the sweet spot. A combination of tee-ing the ball up lower and maybe working on plane with my coach should sort that out.
Iron swing speed was 75mph, and driver swing speed was a pedestrian 90-92mph.
All in all, very, very useful.