Inside a Club Fitting with Mark Crossfield

🏌️‍♂️ Golf Tech fitting involves cataloging your current clubs to identify any discrepancies in lofts and lengths.

📊 The fitting process includes hitting shots with your current clubs to gather data on ball behavior, spin rates, and launch angles.

🛠️ Golf Tech uses Tech fit software to show optimal ranges and make adjustments to club heads, lofts, and shafts.

🤝 The fitting process combines advanced software with human expertise to ensure personalized recommendations.

🎯 Testing different clubs dynamically helps identify the best fit for optimal performance.

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00:00:05 - so I'm going to go through the process of getting fit here at Golf Tech talk me through a little bit about the process what what were we going to do yeah absolutely so we would start off just cataloging your current set of clubs just to get an idea of what you have so we would get you know different Lofts different L angles lengths all that type of stuff walk you through all that just have you there be there during that process so that you can kind of see how that goes so that's static you're

00:00:27 - measuring that's not me hitting you would be measuring correct yeah we just want to get an idea of what you currently have just to see if that's even remotely kind of what you need so that gives us an idea if there's any issues as far as like the lengths don't match up or there's Lofts that are maybe one or two degrees different um we see that a lot with students who say I hit my eight iron exactly the same distance as my seven iron and you find out that the Lofts are pretty much the same so

00:00:48 - doing something before A fitting read get some information is super important um so we start with that and then we would have you test your current clubs actually hitting some shots okay so we get some data from there figure out exactly what the ball's doing what the spin rates are launch angles all those types of things talk through the student with uh what we're seeing on the launch monitor just to give them some education as far as like what we're actually

00:01:08 - looking at okay um and then we would use our Tech fit software as a way to show them some gauges and give them an idea of where the optimal ranges should be fantastic and then from there we would just test some some new stuff to see what's what's better and what we need to change and we would alter the different Club heads change potentially The Lofts different shafts anything that we need to do to make that happen we test three of those and then figure out which one

00:01:29 - works the best perfect so I'm interested in seeing that software so we've got two clubs I haven't got my clubs with me so we got one that kind of represents my club and one that's quite a long way away I'll hit some shots and you'll show me hopefully how it's highlighted on the software that i' might have the wrong to the right sure let's do it totally good how many shots would you need on there for the data to show typically we would want four four pretty decently structure

00:01:53 - out with each Club yep [Music] so I've hit shots with two quite contrasting clubs one close to mine and one not what I would normally gain that's not manufactur that was more setup biased I would say um talk to me through what we got yeah so Tes one that was the one that was pretty similar to what you currently play so that's kind of what i' call your your gamer right it was a call AI smoke it's a 9° it had a 50 g stiff shaft that's what you told me you have so these numbers are probably

00:02:41 - pretty indicative of what you typically see with a driver yeah slightly low here but it would be more shots captured and more variation but they are very much my numbers not quite to speed little bit jet lag it's still early it's can we put a jet lag filter on well there's there should be that we should have that setting in Sky to 3 mph extra on that bull speed if I wasn't there we go um no what I really like about all this I mean just looking at your current driver if

00:03:07 - this was what you were playing like you've got a Back Spin number that's really close to 2,000 so it's pretty much set right in there in the green range your launch angle right around 13 that's what we tell all of our coaches to look for in a driver fitting is a launch of 13 so that's awesome and then we've got a descent angle that's just a hair on the low side you're at 33° ideally I'd want 35 but again these two are really good I wouldn't worry that much about that one when you're hitting

00:03:30 - drives that are right around 300 with that ball speed I don't mind it trying to run a little bit up that F absolutely yeah absolutely that's totally fine um so then we had another model down here that we tested that was very different than what you typically play so this was a a Titleist the TSR 3 we did an 8 degree head we did a very heavy extra stiff shaft it was an 80 g extra stiff so your ball speed didn't change much but what we would probably expect with that driver is lower Spin and lower

00:03:54 - launch yeah and that's exactly what we saw so your back spin dropped by about 200 RPMs your launching went down by 4° 3 and 1/ 12° so that's going to sacrifice a ton of distance for you 100% it's just falling out the air the other thing as well which is interesting which it is picking up but I do like this is that I respond so I am getting the these ball speeds should be slightly different as in if I hit 50 or 100 of each one of them you would see me responding to that

00:04:21 - heavier shaft in a negative way I'd be fatiguing quicker absolutely but four or five or 10 shots with each I'm able to see the numbers and think oh I'm just going to maybe so swing speeds on these probably aren't equivalent cuz I'm probably punching on this one and posting on this totally totally agree and that's why I mean when we're doing any fitting with whether it's a student or just somebody coming in for a club fitting off the street like it's really important to not only just test

00:04:46 - statically measure things statically but test dynamically like like we talked about you have a driver that's 9° I put you in something a little lower Loft little heavier a little stiffer and you're like I'll adjust to this over time well that's why I want to test it cuz I want to see what happens as you do that and also what I love about this obviously it's very softwar driven mhm but the human element's there as well because you're there correct you're going to be asking the right questions

00:05:08 - to find out if I am responding and then in theory you would have some some uh triggers to try and turn that off a little bit you would try and get most out of that customer student people whatever you want to call it absolutely and it makes it to where there's that relationship to where we can talk about what makes the most sense as far as manufacturer what makes no sense as far as the shaft what do you like the look of what do you not like the look of yeah

00:05:29 - that's a conversation that you should be having during a fitting and if you're not then you're kind of missing something yeah 100% love it just we need a Shon next time please we'll get it up there we'll we'll add the jet lag button in there as well excellent fantastic thanks for your time really enjoyed that what I like is that combination as we said there of like it's Tech driven but with the human element as well I think that's so important certainly for me you

00:05:50 - know I want someone driving the tech who's a professional knows what they're doing um but obviously as well what the tech does is it just explains everything so simply things that you would take a long time explaining to pupils where you can literally with the graphics show them straight away where the gains and the losses are happening brilliant really enjoyed that [Music]

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