TFlan
Every one that buys clubs from my shop has hit a driver and 5 Iron in the
recommended frequency prior to getting their clubs built and satisfied
themselves that what has been recommended is better then what they have. I
try to train every fitter using the FitChip in its proper use but can not
guarantee that they will use it as designed or adjust its results with
their own interpretations. I know for a fact that I had one fitter doing
just that in the same area where my shop is and I ended up refitting many
of his customers and he went out of business.
llhack
[Original Message]
From: tflan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <ShopTalk@mail.msen.com>
Date: 10/12/2005 8:08:32 PM
Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Wishon Short Driver Article
I won't discuss this on the forum cuz I don't want to get nailed with a
slander or any other kind of suit. Suffice to say the guy is a pro who
has a
fitted out van. He travels to different areas, fits golfers, and sells
them
clubs.
Now, there's no question at all as to the slope of the set of irons he
built
for the guy in question. The player, a really good striker of the ball
with
a handicap in the + range, was hitting Ping I3's. He has charted
distances
with every single club in the set. He got his new, FitChip suggested
irons
and couldn't come anywhere near the distances or directions he had with
the
Pings. We compared lofts and lies and adjusted the new set to match the
Pings. Still, rather than hit, for example, his new 9 iron 140 yds, as he
did with the Ping, he hit it 129 yds. Now, I'm not exaggerating one bit,
Every club in the set was either shorter or longer by large numbers. He
asked me how come. I told him the shafts, parallel Rifles supposedly
flexed
to 5.7, were probably off the mark. So we popped the grips and freq'd
every
one of the clubs. The curve looked like a profile of the Alps. Freq's
were
all over the chart.
It's entirely possible that the builder used crappy Rifle blanks, or that
he
misinterpreted the data. But there's absolutely no question that this set
rivalled even the worst OEM set I've worked on.
One more thing about this. This is the second set of irons I've reshafted
from sets that were fitted by your device. The first set were so stiff
the
guy could hardly get the ball in the air. So something's wrong somewhere,
either with the device or with the clubmaker, or both.
This is empirical stuff Lloyd, not theory. I've been at this biz for a
helluva lotta years and as you no doubt are aware, I would never build a
set
of clubs for a guy based upon a computer readout. He has to hit the clubs
first before I ever let him pay a dime.
TFlan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lloyd Hackman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <ShopTalk@mail.msen.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Wishon Short Driver Article
> Tflam
>
> Who was the club builder that built that set of clubs you refer to? The
> fitChip dose not build the clubs or recommend frequencies in set that
> don't
> fall on straight slope or a smooth curve.
>
> llhack
>
>
