Club fitting

That's great, once you get used to the new irons the lower height wont be an issue. Was there much difference in distance between new and old? i would be surprised if you are losing any distance and they will still probably stop fairly quickly.

Yea you will still take time to get used to them even though you are fitted. Good Luck with them :)

Best way to look at fitting (if its not immediately obvious why its a good thing) is a bit like getting shirts.

If you've never got a shirt before, you probably need to work out what size you are (For golf, thats your shaft type. Regular/stiff/x-stiff/senior).

That can be enough for a while, but then you realise there is different types of shirts, materials, buttons and styles. For your shafts, that's where you get into things like weight, torque etc.

Fitting back when I was a teen was a low handicapper thing. You needed a repeatable swing as it was expensive to get fitted and wasn't widely available. Nowadays you would be mad not too.Even if your swing changes or whatever, you can go back and get refit.

But I think its important to know what your general specs are

Anyone that has gone to fore golf, is it a mat setup for the fitting? I'm looking at getting the full fitting in March though primarily looking for irons. I assume I can put in an order on the day for the irons and then potentially follow up with the Driver, wedges if I decide to after the fact? If its off a mat I don't think I'll bother, long way to travel for me and I can hit off grass in Mount Juliet and get fit, albeit with a smaller range of clubs or go to Carton house which is grass as well I believe.

Thats a shame. Any reason for that? I'd have thought that devalues the proposition completely?

To follow up on my posts here for anyone thinking about going to Foregolf. I went last Friday for the full bag fitting session (€100 for the fitting and you pay €200 deposit against clubs, I think this only applies if you don't order anything on the day). Overall its a fantastic service, I was a bit worried about hitting off a mat but when you have the data in front of you and are speaking to Dave going through the process its not an issue. My main requirement was new irons as my current set are old and didn't fit my eye. They are game improvement TM Speed Blades in a regular shaft. I arrived way ahead of time and drove in to a parking space with my name on it which was a nice touch. Was met at the door and I asked for a few balls to go up to the driving range beside it to warm up and get loose after a long drive up. The woman advised not to hit too many as I'd be tired for the actual fitting so I just went up and hit maybe 3/4 shots with a wedge, 7iron and driver. Range is lovely there too by the way.

On to the fitting itself, I had a quick chat about what I wanted to get out of the session and said about the irons being the priority, my driver has been good so wasn't sure on changing that, same with my wedges though I wanted to look at my 50d Vokey as for full shots I struggle to get much distance with it. I hit a few shots with my 7iron and talked about my most common misses with them, straight away Dave identified the offset was too much for my swing and the shafts weren't right at all. I was getting about 156yards avg with my club. Within about 10 minutes of trying different heads we'd landed on the P790 and I was trying different shafts. I'd gained 12 yards on average in distance with the 7i and my distance control went from +/- 12.1 yards to 1.9 so I was getting much more consistency with my distance on the p790 than the current 7i as well as an extra 12 yards distance from 156 to 168. Seeing the shots out on the range combined with the data on screen is really good because it just confirms what you are seeing with your eyes with data. Much preferable IMO to hitting into a screen. I then hit my 50d wedge and we spoke about getting more out of that club, tried a GW in the p790 and decided on that to replace the vokey 50. Didn't seem any value in changing my 54 or 58 vokeys as I'm happy with them and they're only a year old. After settling on the p790 we moved on to my 3wood and the gap I have between it and 4i, I've struggled with hybrids in the past so wasn't sure about them but he put me in a Cobra Radspeed hybrid that I was striping pretty much instantly, genuinely a revelation for me and can't wait to get that in the bag as it was easily going 210+ without much effort. Last thing was the driver, I am very happy with the SIM I have so wasn't sure anything could match it. Having hit a few shots with it Dave agreed it would be hard to beat but that we could try some options just to see if there are any gains to be had. I hit the Rogue ST, Cobra LTDx and LS and the Stealth Plus. Rogue wasn't a good match at all, Stealth felt very similar to my SIM and not much gained at all there. The Cobra LTDx LS however was longer and more consistent with my mishits, gained about 6 yards distance but distance control went from +/- 12.3 on my SIM to 4.3 with the Cobra so much more consistent with my distance with it.

We then went back to hitting the p790 just to confirm the spec and all was good. I ordered the irons and hybrid after the session and can order the Cobra anytime I'd like if I want to. Overall a really good experience and not at all they pushy sales tactic thing you can come across in the shops. The fitter was very knowledgable and explained his thought process for trying different shafts and setups as well as experimenting to see if I could gain anything more than what we had already. If you are on the fence about it I can't recommend it further, really great experience. Delivery expected toward end of April which is great too.

I am looking at getting a few new clubs a driver and 3/5 wood. I am wondering if it is worth getting a fitting.

My HI is 21 and I have a slow swing speed. My drives would be around 160 yards a bit longer with a run in summer.

The pro in my club gave me a set of Taylormade Sim 2 Ladies Driver 5 wood and a 3 wood that he said was really like a 4wood. I liked the feel of them and I hit them well. I am considering buying them but would I get better choices if I did a fitting.

I enjoy playing at least twice a week so I would like to get the best out of my game.

I really don't like the way ForeGolf have started making a deposit mandatory. I'm paying for the fitting I should be just getting the fitting with no obligation to buy. Its a shame because i have been fitted by them before and had a really great experience, and I'm still using the irons that i was fitted for. It was €100 full bag with no obligation to buy, now its €300 which includes €200 deposit on clubs. Seems to be working for them though so fair play to them.

Yea the same as that, i was going to go do the fitting there and somewhere else as an experiment to see would i get fit differently but i will probably just go local now. To be fair Golfstyle is local which is another great place to get clubs. And if they dont work out he is very good at giving good trade in values on new enough clubs.

Slight tangent, but many got lessons off the guys in Carton. Notice all their diaries are empty which i found curious

Have a fitting booked in Foregolf later in April but considering doing a second fitting and buying from Carton and Foregolf

Depends on what you call large. You're doing about an hour or 90 mins with them, so it's relatively limited, depending on the scope of the fitting.

They're basically looking to build up enough shots to get a fairly normalised set of values,takingoit the big outlier shots and bad strikes.

It's by no means perfect, but is pretty comprehensive. I guess if you were only going for a driver fitting, say, then you'd be able to get a much bigger database of shots in