Thank you for posting the chart. http://www.agcpgolf.com/Ball_Flight_and_Club_Weight_for_fitting.pdf
I have a couple questions if you don't mind. Adding weight to a head is not a problem but making a head lighter is not as easy. Some heads have removable weights but you can only remove so much. For head weight do you work in 2-4-6-8 gram increment? Or you have driver heads that weight in the 190 gram range? Same for fw woods? For shafts do you work in 10 gram increment? Do you counterbalance? Do you fit some golfers with offset heads? Do you MOI match or sw match? Thank you. André. ----- Original Message ----- From: Roy Nix - AGCP Director To: ShopTalk@mail.msen.com Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 9:35 AM Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Trackman Newsletter Don I agree. The ball doesn't know if you are a right hander hitting a draw or a left hander hitting a fade. The only thing the ball reacts to is the effective loft and spin. I've been fitting for straight shots for years and worked up this chart a good while back. http://www.agcpgolf.com/Ball_Flight_and_Club_Weight_for_fitting.pdf By adjusting the total weight and head weight to get what I call the right balance between the two I try to fit to get my golfers as close as possible to swinging right down the target line and getting the clubface square. If the best I can get is 3 of 4 degrees inside out or outside in so be it, change your alignment and hit straight shots. I fit one guy some time back and everything he hit with his 5 iron was about 10 or 15 feet to the right of the pin on my Golf Achiever. Shot after shot. I was happy and he was not. Finally he asked: "Are you going to fix the club so it goes at the pin"? So I walked up to him and took a silver sharpie and drew a line where his feet were pointing about 10 or 15 feet to the left of the pin and said: "Stand on the line and try it". He did and then laughed out loud and said: "I wonder how long it would have taken me to figure that out"? He dropped his handicap 4 or 5 shots. Everyone seems to be brainwashed into believing the right to left tour draw is the best shot. In spite of Trevino, Nicklaus, Miller Barber, Furyk and many others who won a lot of tour events with a fade or a fairly straight ball. Lots of happy customers tell me straight works. Roy ----- Original Message ----- From: Don M To: ShopTalk@mail.msen.com Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 8:56 AM Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Trackman Newsletter There is a lot of interesting stuff in there. I do not understand #6. Anyone? Also, a question I've had for a long time is, <all else being equal>, does a straight ball go farther than a curving ball? We have been conditioned to "know" that draws go farther. Because they fly lower and/or run out more. But, if a person is fitted so that his draw starts with the same launch angle and other launch numbers as a straight hit, wouldn't the straight hit actually go farther? In other words, the only reason a draw or pull goes farther and a push or fade goes shorter than a straight ball is because of the change in effective loft at impact? And if you make that effective loft equal across all cases, the straight ball HAS to go the farthest. This is what I think I've seen in a seat of the pants way. -Don M ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ed Reeder <e_ree...@mailup.net> To: clubmaker online <ShopTalk@mail.msen.com> Sent: Fri, October 29, 2010 2:57:08 PM Subject: ShopTalk: Trackman Newsletter Here is a newsletter from Trackman. It has many good articles http://www.trackman.dk/download/newsletter/newsletter7.pdf Their 10 Fundamentals of Ball Flight is very interesting. One surprising factor is that your angle of attack (hitting up or down on the ball) has an effect on creating a "zero club path". Lot of good stuff here. Also interesting to read is their "Trackman Combine", which is a way to measure a golfer's accuracy and distance control (they say shot making, but I have to disagree). /Ed -- Shoptalk ** Sponsored by the new Aldila Voodoo. Learn more at http://aldilavoodoo.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1153 / Virus Database: 424/3226 - Release Date: 10/29/10
