Starting a new thread focused on the Array fitting and coping my post below from the Array putter thread. For anyone remotely interested in the Arrays, highly encourage you to go through the fitting and see the magic of this fitting system first hand.
Just got home from the fitting. I didn’t get to a chance to really snap any pictures as we were moving through a bunch of stuff rather quickly it felt a little awkward to ask him to hold on while I take pictures, but I’ll start off by saying the fitting process with the Array is pretty awesome. I was the first Array fitting for this location so I’m sure they’re just getting into the swing of it, but overall it went smoothly and the fitter was knowledgeable around Edel’s fitting philosophy. I spent about 40ish minutes going through the bulk of the fitting and then spent 15-20 minutes generally talking about the Array putters, the Quest Cup, and GolfTec. This was my first putter fitting and it was a lot of fun doing it around the Arrays with so much customization.
My fitter started me off with my current gamer. I took 6 putts from about 15 ft so he could assess my putting stroke, distance control and miss. Nothing too crazy - slight arc in my stroke and tend to miss short and right. He did mention I tend to stab at the ball at impact and should squeeze in more putting practice
, which is true. Once he had a good baseline, it was on to the Arrays.
Fitting for aim bias with the laser was pretty eye opening and a great process to go through. I may or may not have been like 4-5” off on my aim initially from not THAT far away, which certainly explains my right miss. After playing around with sight lines and heads, that laser was right on target. The magnetic sight lines is just one of few areas where the Array system really shined. Being able to swap out the sight lines from blank to lines to dots in a matter of seconds and see how it impacted my aim was pretty cool. It was a little harder to do with the B-1 since they only had one head available and it doesn’t have the magnetic sight lines. My fitter just set the plates on the back of the blade just for the purpose of the laser to see how it changed my aim and it seemed to work out. I will say it would have been nice if they had both the dot and line for the B-1, but we made it work. The aim bias portion is where we sort of narrowed in on a head that gave me the best result.
We didn’t go through every hosel combination as my fitter narrowed in on what he felt I needed based on my initial assessment, but we did play around with head weight next. We started at the standard 15g weights, I’d take 6 putts, and we‘d assess the miss. From there, adjust the head weight, another 6 putts and repeat until we got the results we wanted. I always find it amazing how small changes in head weight are so noticeable and make such a huge impact.
As a final step, he brought out the different grip options. The fitting was done entirely on the flat standard grip, but I got to hold and feel the round standard and round slim as well. Round was definitely an interesting feel and certainly different from what I’ve normally used. Since it wasn’t on the club, it was hard to tell how it would feel when actually putting.
At this point, we finalized my specs and I just asked for some free time to putt around and get a better feel for these putters. As we’ve all seen from the pictures, these putters look fantastic. The milling work is incredible and the feel off of the face is great. Nice soft feel, solid sound and rolls well. As if I wasn’t already excited, this fitting has me even more excited to get one in the bag in a few months.
I really am impressed with the Arrays and how easily customizable they are on the spot. There are obviously a lot of different combinations you can make with the Array and the speed at which my fitter was able to change out different variables to create a new spec was incredible. Think about how easy it is in a driver fitting to swap shafts, move weight, adjust the sleeve, etc. and apply all of that to the putter - you get the Array. Although I was my fitters first Array fitting, he did say this Array fitting kit made it much simpler to work with to dial in the fit.
As for which putter I was fit into….you’ll have to tune in to the Quest Cup live thread in a few months once I have it in hand
Just got home from the fitting. I didn’t get to a chance to really snap any pictures as we were moving through a bunch of stuff rather quickly it felt a little awkward to ask him to hold on while I take pictures, but I’ll start off by saying the fitting process with the Array is pretty awesome. I was the first Array fitting for this location so I’m sure they’re just getting into the swing of it, but overall it went smoothly and the fitter was knowledgeable around Edel’s fitting philosophy. I spent about 40ish minutes going through the bulk of the fitting and then spent 15-20 minutes generally talking about the Array putters, the Quest Cup, and GolfTec. This was my first putter fitting and it was a lot of fun doing it around the Arrays with so much customization.
My fitter started me off with my current gamer. I took 6 putts from about 15 ft so he could assess my putting stroke, distance control and miss. Nothing too crazy - slight arc in my stroke and tend to miss short and right. He did mention I tend to stab at the ball at impact and should squeeze in more putting practice
, which is true. Once he had a good baseline, it was on to the Arrays.Fitting for aim bias with the laser was pretty eye opening and a great process to go through. I may or may not have been like 4-5” off on my aim initially from not THAT far away
, which certainly explains my right miss. After playing around with sight lines and heads, that laser was right on target. The magnetic sight lines is just one of few areas where the Array system really shined. Being able to swap out the sight lines from blank to lines to dots in a matter of seconds and see how it impacted my aim was pretty cool. It was a little harder to do with the B-1 since they only had one head available and it doesn’t have the magnetic sight lines. My fitter just set the plates on the back of the blade just for the purpose of the laser to see how it changed my aim and it seemed to work out. I will say it would have been nice if they had both the dot and line for the B-1, but we made it work. The aim bias portion is where we sort of narrowed in on a head that gave me the best result.We didn’t go through every hosel combination as my fitter narrowed in on what he felt I needed based on my initial assessment, but we did play around with head weight next. We started at the standard 15g weights, I’d take 6 putts, and we‘d assess the miss. From there, adjust the head weight, another 6 putts and repeat until we got the results we wanted. I always find it amazing how small changes in head weight are so noticeable and make such a huge impact.
As a final step, he brought out the different grip options. The fitting was done entirely on the flat standard grip, but I got to hold and feel the round standard and round slim as well. Round was definitely an interesting feel and certainly different from what I’ve normally used. Since it wasn’t on the club, it was hard to tell how it would feel when actually putting.
At this point, we finalized my specs and I just asked for some free time to putt around and get a better feel for these putters. As we’ve all seen from the pictures, these putters look fantastic. The milling work is incredible and the feel off of the face is great. Nice soft feel, solid sound and rolls well. As if I wasn’t already excited, this fitting has me even more excited to get one in the bag in a few months.
I really am impressed with the Arrays and how easily customizable they are on the spot. There are obviously a lot of different combinations you can make with the Array and the speed at which my fitter was able to change out different variables to create a new spec was incredible. Think about how easy it is in a driver fitting to swap shafts, move weight, adjust the sleeve, etc. and apply all of that to the putter - you get the Array. Although I was my fitters first Array fitting, he did say this Array fitting kit made it much simpler to work with to dial in the fit.
As for which putter I was fit into….you’ll have to tune in to the Quest Cup live thread in a few months once I have it in hand
