IS THE WRONG SHAFT RUINING YOUR GOLF SWING? Which shaft flex and profile for you?

The golf shaft is often described as the engine of the golf club and its role in determining ball speed and shot accuracy is significant. At SGGT we stock over 550 different shafts in every length and flex that can be tested with any of our club heads.

Book a fitting to find the perfect fit for you at our Edinburgh, Glasgow and Chesterfield studios.

https://www.sggt.co.uk/book-fitting

ABOUT SGGT
SGGT is known for its unique, detailed 4, 6, 8, PW iron fittings at our flagship Edinburgh and Chesterfield studios. Where as many fitters use only 7 iron to fit an iron set, SGGT goes through the bag to find you the best fit for your game.

Recently, a customer said he thought SGGT offered the “World’s Best Iron Fitting” at our flagship Edinburgh and Chesterfield studios. He challenged us to find anywhere else in the world that offered all this in iron fittings:

• Fitting across set 4, 6, 8 irons & PW. Not just a 7 iron.
• Completely brand independent so you’re guaranteed unbiased advice
• Largest heads/shaft selection in Europe. We have the biggest matrix.
• Premium balls – ProV1s etc instead of range balls.
• Your choice of grip – We’ll put your preferred grip on the clubs you’re testing.
• An opportunity to test off mats & grass, indoor & outdoor during the fitting. It’s the only way to see the true ball flight and test turf interaction. Plus you still get the benefits of our Trackman launch monitors.

We haven’t found anywhere else yet. So, is SGGT the “World’s Best Iron Fitting?”. We’d be genuinely curious to know so please do get in touch.

Please Note: There are regional service variations offered at our Netherlands studios. Please contact them for details.
If you’d like to experience an iron fitting on this level then contact our Edinburgh or Chesterfield studios – or book online at www.sggt.co.uk

SGGT has a number of great fitting features including
The biggest matrix selection of club heads, shafts and grips to ensure you get exactly what you want
Trackman launch monitors
Open bays so you can see the real ball flight
SST Shaft Puring to get the most out of your shaft
S3 shaft profiling
We’ll fit your preferred grip during fitting sessions
Iron fitting with 4/6/8/PW instead of just one club
Outdoor wedge testing including in bunker
Premium balls
Matt and grass testing

DRIVERS & WOODS – FULL RANGE including
Titleist GT1, GT2, GT3, GT4 Series drivers GT280 Mini Driver
TaylorMade Qi35 Qi10 Core, Max, Maxlite and LS
Ping G440, G430 MAX, LST SFT and 10K
Cobra DS Adapt, Darkspeed
Callaway Elyte, Ai-Smoke, Paradym, Max D, Triple Diamond
Srixon ZXi Driver
Mini-Driver, Fairways and Hybrids

IRONS AND WEDGES – FULL RANGE including
Titleist T100, T150, T200, T250, T350, 620, 722
Taylormade P7CB, P790, P770, Qi irons
Ping G440, G430, G730, i230, i530, i59, Blueprint T
Callaway Elyte, Standard, X, HL (high launch) and Max Fast. Paradym Ai Smoke, Apex
Srixon ZXi7, ZXi5, ZXi4 Z-Forged II, ZX4 MkII, ZX5 MkII, Zx7 MkII
Mizuno JPX925 Hot Metal, JPX 923, Pro 245, 243, 241

SGGT custom fitting service creates golf clubs that are personalised to you and your swing only. Using our own proprietary fitting system we can combine heads and shafts from all the leading brands to create the ultimate combination in one of our two tour fitting studios. The Lyle Studio covers the woods and the long game and the Hogan Studio fits irons and wedges. All orders are built in our own in-house workshop. You can also trade in your old golf clubs for new ones. For more information choose the fitting you require below and book online.

Whether you’re a high, mid or low handicap golfer SGGT can help. We offer a tour level fitting experience for all levels of golfer from an average golfer looking for improved performance through to the club champion or elite professional looking for precision in their equipment.

BOOK YOUR FITTING NOW

SGGT
100 Swanston Rd,
Edinburgh
EH10 7BB
0131 202 9055

[Music] Hello and welcome back to SGGT. Today, James, Aaron, and myself, we’re going to try and bust some myths. Apparently, between 80% and 50% of golfers are in the wrong shaft flex according to recent surveys. James, how could a golfer get into the wrong shaft flex? Quite easily. So, at retail, everyone has three drivers, and there’s got to be a stock shaft that goes into each one. Now, manufacturers sell way, way more than this, but unless you’ve got a larger pool of shafts to to actually test, you’ve generally got the stock ones. So, if you’re not in that one or that one, you then have to be the only option that’s left. Um, sometimes if you’ve got a golfer who’s got significantly more club head speed, immediately you’re into whatever the stiffest shaft is in a fitting cart, but that might not be the best thing. But it’s it’s equally the only thing that actually fits you in front. So, it can be quite easy to get into potentially the wrong product just through not having quite all of the all the right options. It’s not having it’s not having the available availability, is it? That’s it. So, nobody’s doing a bad job. It’s just picking choosing the right things that will actually help the golfer rather than what’s just available. Exactly. Yeah. I think when you look at the carts, it’s any fitting is better than no fitting. Right. Oh, definitely. So, it’s the issue is that if you want to hit it lower, you need it something to kill spin. Generally speaking, that’s the 75 g really stiff one. But if you can’t handle the 75 g, then all of a sudden you’re in the wrong shaft because the mid launching one at 60 g is middle of the road and then the higher launching one at 50 g. So if you need the higher launching but you’re really aggressive, you can’t get that. So it’s I think the survey showed that was the wrong flex. I think a lot of alternative problem as much of it will be wrong weight and wrong profile as it will be wrong flex. Yeah. It’s like it might need to be soft somewhere. It’s just soft in the wrong spot. Yeah. Yeah. to soften it, we actually end up softening the whole shaft rather than softening the bit of the shaft that needs to be softer. Exactly. That would be fair. Yeah. And how how can somebody tell they’re in the wrong shaft? Um it’s it’s kind of hard as a as a golfer if you don’t know what you’re looking out for, but typically if you’ve got a shaft that’s too soft, you will spin it a little bit too much. And that can go the other way. But as a as a kind of big picture generalization, you’re going to see a little bit too much spin. You’re going to see a little bit of over curvature for whatever your miss is. If you’ve got a little fade, you might just get a little bit more slice in there. Yeah. If you’re a bit like me and you catch it to that left ball becomes a lot further left. Okay. Um and it can just be a little bit harder to find the middle consistently. So more of a dispersion story then. Would that be fair? Yeah. So, it’s not necessarily you’re going to notice the same thing every time. Is it’s more a lot more various, different stuff. So, more inconsistent start line, isn’t it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. And then on the other side of that, if something is typically too stiff, um again, it’s still going to be quite hard to find the middle. It’s still going to be a a kind of strike dispersion story, but you might not be able to square the face up as as quickly. might go a little bit lower. Um, if you’ve got too stiff a shaft, you might kind of compensate and play too much loft to try and help that launch. Vice versa, in the softer ones, you might actually go too strong a loft to try and counter something that that softer shaft is doing. Sometimes it can then go back down to that feel thing. So, if a shaft is too stiff and too aggressive, it’s almost that the golfer has to kind of play up to that. They have to kind of overcook a little bit. they they’re overreaching and that’s then when the wheels can potentially fall off and the other way around as well. If you go too soft and too light, it maybe doesn’t feel like you’ve quite got the same control. So, you end up holding back and trying to tickle one down the fairway as opposed to hitting a kind of a committed golf shot. Yeah. And on the on the fitting cart things, the the kind of 75 low launch, the weight and the the kind of launch of the shaft, they seem to be kind of inextricably linked. Yes. Whereas your 50 will be your high launching one. Your 60 will be your mid launch, and then your 70 is going to be your aggressive one. Yeah. Whereas there’s a much bigger story to tell there with I mean, you can need to play a 73 g shaft, but if we need it to go that way, we can still have that option. Definitely. Um, so how would you go about finding that out then? Well, it’s a little bit of trial and error. Um, again, if someone’s aggressive and kind of shuts the face, they need the weight to kind of help them help them with their tempo and a shaft that’s maybe a little bit softer in the tip section just to try and get that ball up and going without needing to chuck loads of loft on it. Yeah, I think in fittings like you can you find these things out really quite quickly. So within the first few hits of seeing what a golfer does with their own product and I take 11 living driver here um within sort of first few hits you know what you know what’s happening. So it’s it’s almost like this decision tree that comes in the way that it could be that one it could be that one and you just test things. Um one of one of the big thoughts things I think about with driver shaft is how can you get like the start line correct? Yeah. So once you get the correct shaft, every head can then have a kind of fair can have a sort of fair chance at it. Yeah. But if shaft is wrong, you can write off some heads that might actually be really quite good. So when you get that correct shaft, you’ve got that correct start line, you could then try five different drivers and they will all then all then work. Do something similar. Yeah. This is it. But there’s always one that will win. The center of gravity and the kind of lie angle of that club is going to do different things. Definitely. Yeah. Yeah. Many shaft options we got here, James. 297 driver shafts to be precise. To be precise, it’s factual. What’s the lightest one, Aaron? Lightest one would be 40. How light’s the Vanquish? Incorrect. Go on, James. Oh my goodness. So, an auto an autoflex Dream 7. It’s 37 g. Really lightweight. When was the last time you used that? Well, what’s the heaviest driver shaft? Uh, an OB an Oben Devotion. It’s the classic Devotion. an 8 an 8506 an absolute poker of a shaft. There we go. So, loads loads and loads of options from a weight standpoint. And what would be the stiffest? What’s the stiffest shaft in here? Stiffer shaft is is an Acra RPG. Right. Okay. So, there we go. So, if you want to come in and see what driver shaft or any shaft throughout your bag works best for you, please head over to the website at sgt.co.uk um and book yourself in for a fitting session. And for more great golfing content, please like and subscribe to the channel. Thank you. [Music]