Golf Club Length Webinar - The Most Important Fitting Variable
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- Опубликовано: 28 июл 2024
- One of the more often asked questions that golfers and clubmakers alike will ask is "What length do I (or my customer) need?" In this Webinar Hireko's Technical Director Jeff Summitt is going address this complex issue and break it down. At the same time he will explain why length is the single most important fitting variable and ground zero before ever selecting the right equipment.
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This is all good for STATIC measurements. The real deal is to put tape on the club faces and hit balls to see if length and lie are proper. I'm 5' 8" and have been using .5" over irons for some 30 years and this what fits me. The static measurement would put me into a too short club.
Hi Jeff, I'm 6'2 with a wtf of 38.5. What 5 iron length would you start with?
Jeff my height is 64 inches and wrist-to-floor is 30 inches. I usually buy clubs that are shorter in length by 1 inch and have the lie adjusted by 2 degrees flat, but think my clubs are too long. Any suggestions?
My best suggestion if you feel the clubs are too long is to head to the range or a place on the course no one is at. Choke or grip down 1/2" and see if that feels and better than at full length as well as watch ball flight. Repeat the exercise by choking down 1" and evaluate feel and performance. If either one of those conditions all the sudden makes a positive change you can either continue to choke down (think Anthony Kim) of remove the grip and resize. If you want to get fancy, take a roll of lead tape with you and see if you need any extra weight.
Thank you Sir for the very much helpful video. If my club is 1" longer should I cut that 1" from the big end of the Shaft or small end (connect to hosel)? Thank you so much
Big end always
Do you measure your height with shoes on?
If i go dynamic gold s400 tour issue (132g) shaft and lengthen 0.5 inch... will i get a silly swing weight ie. D5, D6?
That will depend upon what shaft and length you have right now. If you had the same or similar weighted shaft and you re-shafted at 1/2" longer, then you are likely to see a 3 swingweight point increase. If you have a lighter shaft, it will likely go higher than that without using a heavier grip or counterweighting.
@@HirekoGolf1 7 iron 37.5" 110gram shaft
What shaft do you have now and what is the current swingweight? Some of the lighter shafts have material removed from the butt and center sections so the tip remains stable. This moves the balance point closer to the tip so a heavier shaft like DG Tour Issue may not increase the swingweight at the same length. The extra 1/2" will increase the swingweight 3 points regardless with no change in grip weight.
Wait... if a golfer tends to hit toward the toe then you want to flatten the lie, and if they hit toward the heel then you want to make their lie more upright? I've already heard it was the opposite...??
If you flatten the lie, that will push the clubhead farther away from the golfer assuming that all else remains the same. So that toe shot may move back toward the center of the face. The big "what if" will the player change anything at address, in their stance or during the swing from doing so? That is why for some golfers when you change one parameter it could result into one thing, but the next golfer with the same issue can see a completely different outcome. That is why it is so important to be dynamically fit.
@@HirekoGolf1 5' tall golfer here. So if I am consistently hitting towards the toe will all irons (nearly a full ball), would it make sense to shorten the shaft which would in my mind tend to make things more upright and flatten the club?
Only problem is shoes can add or subtract inches.
Terrible audio quality but decent content.
Good god... 10 minutes on just how to correctly measure the club - look, if anyone needs that much instruction on just the length, the rest of the information is surely going to go right over their head. Wish you woulda just got to the point instead of slowly beating the same topic to death.
No joke