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Looks like Zalatoris switched to a mezz broom for the Hero World Challenge.

i'd happily try some if LA Golf wanted to give me some :). They cost more than my irons!

Wanted to give another vote here for the steelfiber shafts. I have them on my irons and they are my first graphite iron shaft. During a fitting I tried this and the ust mamiya and the mamiya just didn’t feel right for me. The steelfibers feel a bit stiffer than what it says so I got them in a R flex and it’s been great. I don’t swing my irons that fast (7i=140y). have not tried any other iron shafts as my current rabbit hole is on putters

True, valid concern. However these days the same sellers are also on Amazon (maybe selling other stuff).

anyone willing to take a flier on these? https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805097779758.html. I reckon is most likely burning money but i'm curious.

oh hmm. when i did mine it had to be with different clubs that were bent at different angles. While they had me try the same club (srixons), they had several heads across different lie/lofts. not sure how they would do this with your existing club, but if they can then i stand corrected! i'm assuming irons and not drivers with just hosel adjustments. I guess they could keep bending it every time, but i thought that bending it too much might not be good?

It will be hard for them to "fit" you into different loft/lie angles without giving you a different club to hit. They are not going to bend your club just to see what you want :). I dont think it will hurt to get a fitting if you just want to challenge the assumptions of what you like. You never know!

Nothing about this website makes me confident they will ever give you your money back. I'd recommend using a credit card with the best buyer protection possible.

They are offering graphite/steel composite shaft upgrades for $12 right now for putters btw. I was in the market for a new putter and ordered one with that.

chiming in to say that i too went to club champion for a fitting. the fitting itself was fine since i was upfront about costs. what wasn't fine was the build quality of my clubs. they fitted me down to swingweight, and all of that was off. They also didnt even grip my clubs properly as some of the grips weren't fully on the shaft, making my 9i as long as my 7i (and feeling floppy). the place where i get lessons also has a mini shop. I asked them to cut my clubs to length (because i initially thought all the club lengths were just off) and turns out the grips were just on incorrectly. They blow grips on, so it was an easy fix. swing weight i fixed myself. at least, as far as i can tell, i was only charged MSRP for my clubs.

Thought I was done updating here, but i did just get my clubs back. Funny story... After he (club builder) took off the grips, he realized that the grips weren't put on all the way. The shafts were all the correct length, the grips just didnt get seated on right. No shafts got cut, grips got put back on all the way, and the lengths look normal now. Also feels way better to hit with them.

You still have these? Am curious why you are selling since your other post was pretty positive on them. (can DM me)

I've cooled down now from the initial discovery so not as mad anymore. I'm getting my 5-7 cut down a little bit and will proceed from there. I'm honestly hitting my 8i and up really well at around D0 so if anything is sus it's likely the initial fitting of me to a D6. I'm not sure what I'll do with the 5-7i going forward. My 8i is around 145y carry and my 4h is around 180 carry. The 5-7 in theory fill in the gaps but now I'm wondering why make this harder on myself and just go with some higher lofted hybrids or try out some one length cobra irons for that gap. All this to say I'm just gonna put club champion behind me and move on . I didn't pay a premium for the clubs over what TM would have charged me, which makes this easier. (I checked before ordering). I appreciate all the feedback here and the discussion!

So the story is that apparently the clubs are direct OEM from TaylorMade, so CC stands by absolutely nothing here. Apparently they (taylormade) have a "reputation" for getting stuff wrong, according to the CC rep in the store. This is in contrast to what CC told me when I was getting fitted and ordering - i knew i was getting OEM and a stock shaft, but that CC would still do the construction hence why the clubs had to ship from TaylorMade to their Chicago office to get work done, and then to the Bellevue office to get delivered to me. If the clubs are delivered pre-made by OEM i'm not sure why it needed to be delivered to Chicago at all, as it's probably them wasting money to ship it to me. I havent really decided what i wanna do about CC. If they were to fix it, it's either going to be to send it to Chicago and that would be a long wait, or this rep in the Bellevue office tries to fix it, and i definitely don't want that guy touching anything of mine. I'm older and have less free time these days and would like to spend more of it playing golf and less of it being "right" against some corporation i have zero interest in going back to. If there's a better option (than just getting it fixed myself) i'm not sure what it is .

Update on this! I went to the practice facility i take lessons at and they took a look at my iron lengths for me. The 5i-7i are all indeed 1/4" too long. Additionally, all the swing weights are around C9 and NOT D6 for the entire set. Ugh. I went to Club Champion immediately afterwards and explained it. They could not have been more dismissive about the whole situation and focused on absolving them of any wrong doing or error, and even going to the length of telling me that even if i wanted them to fix it, good luck getting the clubs back at any reasonable timeline cuz I would never be a priority. I thought about escalating up to the corporate level, but at this point, do I want this place touching my clubs anymore? No. In talking to the club builder at my practice facility, the overall cost to repair isnt so bad, so I'll just go that route. ANYWAY TL;DR don't trust Club Champion, at least the one in Bellevue, WA.