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We don’t know your swing or technique. Any advice we offer is a guess. The information you put into the tool is your personal knowledge of your game? Your course conditions and how you use the club. The tools recommendations are going to be a better guess than what we come up with. The logic makes sense but remember for every 1° of loft change the bounce changes 1° in your case you will be adding 1° of bounce. Do you know that loft change will provide the gapping you need and that leaving as stock won’t. 1° of loft with all things being equal in only 2-3 yards of distance

The ruling bodies have no qualms about alignment lines on the ball or on clubs. There are also rules for what one can and can’t do for marks on a club so not a big issue with alignment lines on the ball.

It’s gone up but for the prices I don’t have any issues with the price. The courses are worth it and they maintain a pace of play policy with good enforcement.

Miura irons are unique in feel and sound. Theres nothing like them on the market. The sound and feel is one that people either love or hate. Some prefer the softer feel and the sound of Mizuno but I’ll take a well struck miura over that every day of the week. I have had a few sets of miura irons and still have my cb301s. The irons were bought because of the brand but also the craftsmanship of the clubs and to an extent because not many have them.

Caring about score depends on how much you care about the event and why you are playing. Every group I played with in a scramble we had the intention if playing well and trying to win so yes we cared about score. Strategy off the tee was simple. Shortest driver first then the next two were to get a ball in play further up and then let the longest guy go last. Best iron player went 3rd or 4th. Worst putter went second so that a decent putter would give some kind of actual read. Best putter 3rd or 4th depending on the hole, how often they putted before that and the situation at hand

The number of pros who work the ball both ways is around 5(not the number that can, but the number who do). No need to work the ball both ways

Good place to start. Other than testing for yourself this tool is going to be as good as a guess as anyone here can provide

Most people won’t know the numbers, the fitter when appropriate during the fitting would explain what he/she is seeing in swing, ball flight and numbers and shown the golfer the difference so the golfer could make a decision based on data and what they felt and/or saw. Sounds like the fitter did that. i agree that you will have to or should trust what you went with. Lots of people have gone to a fitting and come out with some head, loft, shaft or a combo of them they didn’t expect. Usually based on old, outdated and incorrect “conventional wisdom” that has been debunked with data and technology.

The marketing information from companies is marketing but just a general guideline. We can use the low launch and low spin label if shafts. Unless someone has a late release they aren’t going to be seeing that lower launch or spin. Same for the fast aggressive swinger it’s about a feel one the shaft and how it works with one’s swing. I am over 100mph and have an agressive transition, the original hzrdus black would be a better fit on paper than the original hzrdus yellow. Yet in my fittings the hzrdus yellow was a better fit along with other shafts that have a higher balance point. When it comes to indoor fittings you have to have a baseline with your current setup, compare the numbers with the options being used on the fitting and see if there are improvements not just with total distance or carry distance but the numbers that lead to them. Ball speed, launch, spin, peak height and descent angle along with dynamic loft since you can’t see the actual ball flight. And also how each setup feels. Where did you get fit at?

Post a swing from down the line and face on and let’s see what’s going on and what bigger issues need to be addressed first. remeber when taking videos that for down the line the camera should be at hand height and down the hand line not the target line or at that body. This way we don’t get weird angles that could skew what we see. For face on samething with camera at hand height and this time at the center of the body. Camera doesn’t need to be too far away but far enough to see the whole swing

Swing speed is far down the list for choosing a shaft. Forgot what thread it was posted in but there was a social melds post of a long drive hitter talking about using a shaft labeled as ladies and many of the guys on long drive tour using a “ladies” flex shaft. Feel and balance of the shaft with head combo, the weignt and how all those work with one’s swing is what determines whether a shaft works. If the weight and feel which is also going to come from the shafts stiffness profile are a match for the golfer then the results will show up in the performance

Looks like feel play a big part in what we do. Learned that several years back during a titleist fitting. The fitter wanted to do some testing and experimenting with some things after my fitting since I as his last appointment and we both and traffic to fight I told him I had no problem staying and hitting more balls. he changed the hosel settings on the driver but didn’t tell me what. My first swing the bal didn’t do what I expected it to do based on the fitting. Took another swing and same result. He goes you changed your swing to try and achieve your normal ball flight based on what you saw at address. Club was more closed than I was used to and I think he messed with lie angle too.

More than likely caused by how the club moves in the takeaway and/or how your lower body is moving

If you are topping the ball then you have some issues to address in the backswing that are causing you to stand up in the swing and also lifting your arms. Heres the thing about the golf swing. Yes there are some unique individual things people do in their swing and/or setup. But there are things that over 99% of good to great golfers do. It makes sense to do those things and not what the outliers do. So what is it that the good to great players do. They have a grip that matches up with their bodies and their swings. There are some fundamentals to the grip such as keeping it on the fingers. Your hands are the club face and for some instructors they will say the trail hand and the club face should match. what else do pros do? They shift pressures how much varies by individual and when. But they all do it and it’s completely done no later than lead arm parallel, recenter pressure between lead arm parallel and get 70% of pressure to the lead side before they start the transition. They get their lead wrist adding flexion in transition and unfolding of the trail arm early in the transition and downswing. They are using the ground to help their rotation. Do what the best do and not what the one or two outliers do.

I’ve always gone flatter in wedges by 1-2° of their standard loft i stand the club up and keep the heel off the ground for chips and even some pitches.