Club fitting is a scam!

[RetiredBoomer]

17 hours ago, funkyjudge said:

I am not sure why you included ready golf among your list of “controversial” topics. The rest of them I can agree are legitimately controversial subjects, but there is nothing at all controversial about playing ready golf.

Maybe it's just me, then.

I only enjoy playing golf in traditional order.
I don't enjoy rushing.

If I'm on the golf course,
I've got nowhere else to go and nothing else to do.

That's why I only play on weekdays.
We get to play the way we've always played.

 

 

[RetiredBoomer]

16 hours ago, funkyjudge said:

You certainly misread my response. What I am saying is that playing ready golf should not be controversial because everyone should be playing ready golf. That is why at the vast majority of the courses that I play (and I play at lots of courses, both public and private, across many states and in the UK) have it printed on their scorecards “play ready golf” or “golfers should play ready golf at all times”.

Like you, I think that playing at a 4:30 pace for 18 holes is actually too slow under most conditions and on most golf courses.

I like to play in traditional order, and to me, four and a half hours is a perfectly reasonable time for a round of golf.

It's only a personal opinion. but I don't see golf as a sport for people in a hurry.
Maybe it's a generational thing, or maybe it's just the way it is in my circle of golf mates..

In any case, I belong to a club that's cool with it.

But the thread is about fitting, and on that, I say it's worth it if you can afford it.

Surviving is about what you need.
Living is about what you want.

 

 

Edited Saturday at 03:46 PM by RetiredBoomer

[Henri-Martin]

No easy to answer.  It is not a scam if the fitter is a well-trained professional with the adequate fitting equipment.  Let me explain.   I used to be a scratch player and my weakness was putting.  I must have spent thousands and thousands of dollars on putters, such as Scotty Cameron, Odyssey, Taylor Made, Argolf, Valgrine, etc.  A couple years ago, I had the opportunity to get a tour-level fitting experience in the Ping lab in Phoenix, the same facility as the tour players get fitted.  I spend approximately 2 hours and some of the assets my fitting specialist employed include: AFS interchangeable fitting clubs, trajectory tuning technology, TrackMan dual-doppler radar, the Ping shaftspp, the iPING 2.0 putting app, and ballnamic, its proprietary golf-ball-fitting app.  The result:  a Ping Prime Tyne 4 putter (2 degrees flat, 1 degree less loft, 33.5 inches long, a large grip, etc.  My putting really improved.  It is important to understand that all the tour players spent hours and hours at their equipment facility to get fitted.  However, some fittings are really a scam.  Too many facilities propose fitting and do not have well-trained professionals as well as the adequate equipment.  In this case, it is a waste of time and money.

[fixyurdivot]

I can only hope to experience more scams as beneficial as my two club fittings . 

@Louis_Posture, if your key point is that fittings for very high handicap golfers with little play experience (as in topping and spraying balls everywhere) is a waste of money, I agree to some extent.  As @Josh Parkerstated, that money & time would be better spent on lessons before doing a fitting.  

[Louis_Posture]

On 10/12/2024 at 8:42 AM, RetiredBoomer said:

I like to play in traditional order, and to me, four and a half hours is a perfectly reasonable time for a round of golf.

 

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Traditional order or ready golf does not matter. What does matter is that if you are one hole or more behind the group in front of you, step aside and allow the groups (s) behind to play thru.

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Edited 9 hours ago by Louis_Posture