“Who knew there was so much to know about putters?” By day 4, the freshman class of testers at the Golf Digest Hot List summit have come to realize the game-changing value of having fitters like Chris, Pat and Alex to assist in pulling the right models and specs of the clubs they’re reviewing—especially on the green, for the club they’ll use the most of all: the flatstick.
Far as anybody that doesn’t believe the fitting process you’re leaving something on the table could be small could be big but um we continue to want more and more people taking advantage of It in the home stretch of the hot lless Summit the Fitters gear up for their most grueling task of all fitting the testers for irons someone walks in our doors for an iron fitting we like to say it’s an Iron’s fitting we’re going to fit you for every single iron in the bag
From top to bottom actually not all over the place you see how far back in the heel it is all right that is a very very big loss of ball speed that’s also adding the inconsistency aspect of things you want to think about each iron
Individually uh it has a job to do we have a lot more technology at our fingertips the golf ball is telling you a story I think you benefit from something that’s still in the stiff range but just like a little softer a little lighter you know in the long run
It’s crazy how you can feel it fall speed 114 spin rate you’re spinning you know around 6,000 with a seven iron you want to see around 5,500 to 6,000 RPMs to spin dialing in your irons is important but it only goes so far if you can’t get the ball in the
Hole enter the putter the most valuable Club in your bag but often the most overlooked when it comes to fitting it’s a cliche that it’s the club you use most in the bag but that happens to be true so why wouldn’t you want to get fit for
The club that you’re going to take the most Strokes with why most amateurs don’t get fit for the putter man if I can answer that question I’d be one of the smartest guys in golf when you’re talking about average golfers probably around 80 to 85% are still not fit for
Their putter so this is more of a a rounded shape as opposed to your two ball 10 is a little more of what must call a hybrid shape you know it’s kind of squared off a lot of people don’t really understand why Putters are shaped
The way they are why they have lines and why the you know the lines are placed in very specific positions for reason and they all influence against people’s aim biases and their perceptions I’ve always said it’s the most important part of the game because it directly influences The
Strokes what you feeling dude I’m I’m I love you Pat I love you man hopefully everyone that sees this go into a Golf Galaxy go on the putting green say I got a ton of questions about my putting game I want the answers to and get one of our
Trust advisers up there to help you out pH trusted advisor easy to say yet difficult to achieve but that’s exactly what Chris Pat and Alex have become for these testers in just one short I’ll be at grueling week they’re fantastic people helping guiding me through the experience so
Walking away making a couple new friends learning a whole lot more about the game of golf and about my own game I can take home with me and you know memories I’ll have for a lifetime for the Fitters the feeling is mutual I give a lot of props
To the players that are swinging going to give an opportunity to get that ball more into the air my goal is helping them understand what this club’s doing for them so they can give their best opinion a lot of players look at this and they base what the clubs are going
To buy it’s very important that these folks here hit their best shots and then give the best opinion unbelievable week been a long grind but just excited hearing the excitement in the players they should be tired right now they’re not I think the marriage and partnership that Golf Digest has with Golf Galaxy
And dict Sporting Goods is just incredible
