Six sessions, one page
Every session below is judged on the bad swings, not the best one, and every recommendation is issued alongside the conditions it was measured under. Jump to the club you need.
Judged on the Bad Swings, Not the Best One
Give any golfer sixteen swings with an unfamiliar driver and at least one will come off the middle. Read the average of the best five and every candidate looks like an upgrade. We state an acceptance rule before your first recorded strike, apply it identically to your current driver and every candidate, and print the discard count on your sheet — a head that produced twelve accepted strikes from sixteen and one that produced seven are telling two very different stories even if their averages match.
Fitted Off the Deck First. The Tee Comes Later.
On a tee, the ball sits above the ground and a wood with unsuitable sole geometry produces numbers indistinguishable from a well-matched one. Off the deck, every variable becomes measurable through strike location and dispersion, so the session runs deck first, at least two-thirds of accepted strikes, across both the mat and a natural turf tray. Golfers resist a 5-wood recommendation over a 3-wood and then use the club three times as often.
We Fit the Gap. The Category Is an Outcome.
You do not need a hybrid; you need a club that covers a specific distance band from real lies with acceptable dispersion. The session opens by capturing the two clubs on either side of the gap, which establishes the distance band and descent angle the replacement has to hit — only then do candidates come off the rack. Every session includes a dedicated rough-mat block, since a candidate that looks great from a perfect mat and collapses from the rough has failed the test that actually matters.
A Set Is One Instrument, Not Eight Separate Purchases
Most iron problems are set problems: two clubs that fly the same distance, one in the middle that feels foreign, a long end you cannot launch. We capture your full set as a baseline before touching a head candidate, measure dynamic lie club by club rather than extrapolating from the 7-iron, and rebuild the gap map with the recommended spec to confirm the two clubs at the extremes of the set.
Bounce Chosen Against Your Turf, Not a Chart
Charlotte keeps fourteen labelled buckets of sand collected from courses around central Indiana. Before picking a grind, she asks where you play and pulls the matching bucket, because bounce is a relationship between how steeply you deliver the club and what the surface underneath the ball actually is. The session covers four blocks — full swing, partial swing, tight-lie greenside, and bunker — because a club fitted only on full swings is wrong for three-quarters of its working life.
A Launch Monitor Pointed at a Putt Measures the Wrong Thing
Putting is a rolling problem, not a flight problem, so the putter session leaves the main bay entirely and runs on a calibrated, stimp-verified surface with a separate rig built for roll onset, skid distance and start-line dispersion. Length is almost always the first and largest change — standard putters ship at 34 or 35 inches, and a large share of golfers are better served between 32.5 and 34.