Hey everyone!
I'm still pretty new to the forums here, but I've been reading them for ages. Last year around September, I started a new journey in my golf game taking my first ever lesson after playing for roughly 15 years on and off. Fortunately, since I live in Texas, I get to golf year round so I started to get pretty serious into my game around the same time. My average score on 18 at my local club at the time was about a 110 (68.1/116 from my tees). I was doing the classic improvement strategy of watching youtube videos and just trying to implement that on the range. That's when the new instructor at my local club saw me and offered me a free lesson (a fear all of us hackers have...). Well after one lesson he got me hooked! I've been able to do a lesson about every two months since then at this point.
Thanks to these lessons and targeted stat tracking of my own game, I was able to go out and shoot an 86 just the other week! I have a bonus coming in at work, and I've decided I'm going to use it to get fit for a full set of clubs. However, I'm not sure what the best time to do this is. I know that getting fit at any point is good for your game, but my coach and I are still working on swing path, on irons especially, as well as face angle through impact on all clubs (I used to come over the top so I got a habit of holding off on rotating this to compensate for that movement).
Should I wait a few months as I keep going through major swing changes (path specifically) until I get to a more steady state? My current Driver, 3W, 3-P are all 10+ years old right now, but they were a nice set at the time (albeit well beyond my skill level when I bought them...). I just got new wedges at Christmas last year, and I don't currently plan on replacing those (RTX Zipcore) or my putty any time soon as I've been playing great with them.
Thanks in advance for any advice/tips you can give! Also interested in hearing anyone's experiences with club fitting at a higher handicap, especially while going through swing changes.