Club Champion, specialised in golf club fitting, are installing in Myrtle Beach. Their studio is near the Coastal Grand Mall on Pine Island road. They have all the major manufacturers and even PXG, Honna and Miura. The new studio features two indoor hitting bays, a SAM PuttLab system to find the perfect putter, and a build shop for repairing and assembling golf clubs by hand.
Purchase of new golf equipment can be very expensive. If you are to purchase a new driver or spend money on new irons, it make sense to see a club fitter. For a limited time, they are offering 50% off fitting fees with an equipment purchase of $500 or more. Putter fittings are 50% off with the purchase of a new putter. It seems a good opportunity.
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Thanks for posting.
I may do that for my next driver.
jw11
"King Of The Mid-tiers"
Sounds like a good idea - hope it works. I go to my friend Dale Ketola over at Grande Dunes when I'm ready to make a switch, but he doesn't have a big selection.
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Club Champ sounds like a good idea compared to a golf store, if the
clubs sell for the same price and not MSRP.
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Club Champ sounds like a good idea compared to a golf store, if the
clubs sell for the same price and not MSRP.
I've not been to one or purchased from them, but know several that have. They do a custom fitting and have a lot of shaft options available. If you go buy an off the rack driver for $500 at a big box store, you are probably going to double that at Club Champion because of the upgraded shaft. They take fitting, from what I hear, to the next level and they represent a lot of brands. My buddies told me when you go, be prepared to spend a bit of time and if you buy be prepared to spend more money. But, it is likely worth if you want that customization. I had a buddy that bought a Callaway Driver and in the box store it might be $550 but the shaft alone he got was that much or more. He traded some stuff in to help offset the cost. They will give you computer reports as part of the fitting and you are not obligated to buy.
If a golfer is in the single digit Hdc range, they may be able to benefit
from an exotic shaft upgrade, if they see it in the Trackman.
Most golfers should be able to be fit for length, weight, flex and be able
to stay within the standard OEM prices for clubs.
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If a golfer is in the single digit Hdc range, they may be able to benefit
from an exotic shaft upgrade, if they see it in the Trackman.
Most golfers should be able to be fit for length, weight, flex and be able
to stay within the standard OEM prices for clubs.
TruSpec and GolfTec are some of their competitors. Their fittings can take hours from what i hear.
Agreed. Until you get to the single-digit level, you'd best spend your money on lessons with a good local pro or at least dump the same amount of money at the driving range with a couple of books (Hogan's Five Fundamentals is a good start--as old as that book is and as little as it could benefit from video instruction since filming rates in the early 1950s with the best equipment are beaten by most cellphone cameras now) or some of the newer golf websites that might be able to focus your practice. Of course, custom-fit won't hurt you, but I suspect a lot of golfers would benefit more from learning a consistent, square setup to the golf ball at address. Until you know you're square and correctly pointed at your target, you probably can't know what your real mistake is and how to fix it. Or know what kind of adjustments are needed for your golf swing since it's likely your swing will change--along with the necessary adjustments.
Every golfer swings their club differently. Golf lessons are important until your ball trajectory is straight. According to Jack Nicklaus, golf is the art of controlling where and how far you can hit a golf ball. If you can hit a golf ball exactly where you want you are in business and you can aspire to be a single digit handicaper. When you have reach this level of golf playing, to invest in golf club fitting is necessary to reach an another level of play. When you are a single handicaper, you want to be a scratch golfer meaning zero handicaper. For that, you have to invest in better and more specialised and more costly equipment and also in golf club fitting. It is the road followed by most of those that have a zero handicap.
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I don't disagree about the variety of swings, but I think most modern golf instruction accepts that each golfer has to make compensations to correct mistakes they've made earlier in the swing. For instance, coming "over the top" on the downswing can frequently be traced to the common error the less-skilled golfer makes in starting the backswing by immediately taking the club too far inside--the only way the golfer can get the club back to the ball is by coming back over the top on the downswing. That's the compensation that generally can only be fixed by going back earlier in the swing and finding where the original mistake was made. Almost anything else is a patch that may work briefly, but the golfer soon returns to his old bad habits.
My point about a square setup and correct aim (and correct grip and posture) relates directly to that. Setup is the prime fundamental--Hogan spends a lot of time on that before addressing the backswing and downswing. I guarantee you that tour pros spend a tremendous amount of time checking their grip, setup, stance, posture, and aim. They reduce compensations later in the swing--that they cannot consistently reproduce--by reducing mistakes in grip, posture, setup, stance, and aim.
And the average golfer: they hardly spend any time on statics. I've found that once you get the statics correct, then, for the average golfer, he can develop a decent swing by concentrating on getting the club on the right path during the first foot or so of takeaway and developing a consistent swing tempo. Of course, there's a lot more to a great golf swing, as the tour pros know and show, but if you can get setup properly and start on the right path, you're going to have a swing that can get you into the low 80s. Improvement from there is a combination of better equipment, a plan to attack swing technique and strategy flaws, and the talent the golfer brings to the game. Read about any great athlete, not just golfer, and it's remarkable the kinds of minutiae they can detect in action that most of us (including other lesser but still extremely talented athletes) will never notice.
