So I recently went through an iron fitting with Titleist.
Traditionally I have played standard length shafts and my lies have been 1 degree upright.
During the fitting, my fitter bumped me to standard lies but the club a half inch shorter. This worked very well during my fitting.
My question is does this make sense? Would shortening the clubs balance out the lie or do you think it’s still going to be flatter than I’m used to?
Below were notes from my fitting:
Below are a few key takeaways;
Traditionally I have played standard length shafts and my lies have been 1 degree upright.
During the fitting, my fitter bumped me to standard lies but the club a half inch shorter. This worked very well during my fitting.
My question is does this make sense? Would shortening the clubs balance out the lie or do you think it’s still going to be flatter than I’m used to?
Below were notes from my fitting:
Below are a few key takeaways;
- The T200 7i carry distance was 10 yrds further than the Apex
- The peak height dropped 15 feet in the T200- went from 120 ft in Apex to 105ft in T200
- Along with the peak height we got your landing angle down from 55+ degrees to low 50’s
- Perhaps most importantly pertaining dispersion, we were able to significantly lower your ball speed variances- the difference from your good to bad shots in the Apex’s varied by 6mph (this is high and creates higher dispersion- the good shots are much longer than the bad shots and thus tougher to predict and a wider dispersion)
- In the T200’s your ball speed only varied by 3mph from good to bad shots, meaning even your mis-hits we still decent shots which in turn provides tighter dispersion and consistently hitting your yardage
- The goal in an iron is to flatline ball speeds- getting that ball speed variance as close to 0 as possible meaning you are hitting the same yardage every time. Dropping from 6mph to 3mph may not sound like a lot but that is a significant increase in consistency in distance as well as side to side misses shrinking. 1mph = 2 yards and we can’t have your 7i distances varying by 12 yards (12 yards long on the good shots or 12 yards short on the poor shots)
- Thus the T200 only varying by 3mph shrunk the mis-hit gap to only 6 yards
- In short, we were able to get the T200’s more consistently hitting the same distance, smaller side to side misses by a 14yrd tighter dispersion circle, 10 yrds further and a tad lower with too high being a concern of yours in your current clubs.
