What first-lessons or custom fit?

Lessons first, but when your game starts to take shape and you go for custom fitting, it is really not to do with your height.

I personally disagree. Anyone below 5ft 7 or above 6ft 1 would benefit from learning with clubs fitted to their static measurements and then review the specs 6 months down the line.

Someone at 6ft 3 will clearly struggle with a standard length set.
 
In 1987, I caddied for a 1 handicap player in our club championship. He was 6'4 and about 16 stone. Custom fitting had not been invented and he played with a totally unaltered set of forged Titleist Tour Model irons with standard loft and lie and factory shafts. He shot 67 and 69 over that weekend on a tough course that was baked hard. It was some of the best golf I have ever seen first hand and he had a beautiful swing.

He did not have longer clubs with tweaked lie angles. He did not have anything other than bog standard bladed irons. He won because he was a very good player, the tools he used were totally incidental.


I find it sad to read threads like this. It is not about the arrows, it is about the Indian.

My advice to the OP is to get 5 lessons to establish correct grip, stance, alignment and tempo then go and hit as many golf balls as you can on the course and practice pitch and keep doing this with a lesson every year for the next 5 years. When you get to single figures, give a bit of thought to what clubs might make an improvement then forget about them as they won't.

Golf is not about the equipment, custom fitted or not.
 
Golf is not about the equipment, custom fitted or not.

Agree! I also strongly hate seeing players out on the course with the latest and greatest gear, a bag with thousands of quids worth of gear in, and hardly a clue which way round to hold the club.

You can have the best tools in the world, but at the end of the day, if you can't use them, what's the point?
 
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