Driver Fitting
The widest reliable landing area beats the longest single drive. That is the whole brief for this session.
Fairways Are Worth More Than Yards
Ask a golfer what they want from a driver fitting and the answer is almost always distance. Ask the same golfer what ruined their last round and the answer is almost never "I was ten yards short". It was the two tee shots that finished in the trees.
So we set the session up around dispersion. Carry matters, obviously, and we will not ignore an easy ten yards. But when a configuration offers more distance and a wider spread, we say so plainly and let you choose with the numbers in front of you.
The other thing this session frequently produces is a shorter driver. Standard shaft lengths have crept up over the years, and a great many golfers find the middle of the face far more often with half an inch removed.
What Moves During the Session
- Shaft length, tested before anything else
- Loft and face angle setting
- Shaft weight, then bend profile
- Head model and movable weight position
- Grip size and build-up under the lead hand
Each one isolated against the baseline so the effect is attributable.
Four Readings That Decide the Driver
Dispersion
Left-to-right spread across ten swings. The primary metric for the whole session.
Launch Angle
Too low and the ball never gets its carry; too high and it stalls into any wind.
Spin Rate
Balanced against launch, not chased downward for its own sake.
Strike Pattern
Where on the face you actually make contact, which drives length and loft decisions.
Ninety Minutes on One Club
It sounds like a long time for a single club, and the first time golfers hear it they usually assume half of it is sales talk. It is not. Fifteen minutes goes to warming up, twenty to establishing what the driver in your bag actually does, and the remaining hour to working through changes methodically enough that the result holds up.
You will hit somewhere between sixty and ninety recorded shots. We build in breaks, because fatigue corrupts data faster than anything else in the bay.
- Baseline on your current driver, median of ten
- Length and loft isolated first, before shaft swaps
- Shortlist narrowed to two configurations, then re-tested
- Printed specification with all recorded medians
When We Say Keep What You Have
A meaningful share of driver sessions end with the same head going back in the bag. Modern drivers are genuinely good, and if yours is set up correctly for your delivery, replacing it buys very little.
What usually does change is the shaft, the length, or the loft setting — adjustments that cost a fraction of a new club and move the numbers more. If that is where the session lands, that is what the specification will say.
Bring the Old One Too
If there is a driver in the garage you replaced and still miss, bring it. Twice a year somebody finds out the old one fitted them better all along.
Book the Driver Session
Ninety minutes, one golfer, and a printed specification at the end of it.