The Cheapest Fix Is Usually Already in the Head
Adjustable hosels and movable weights have been standard for well over a decade, and most drivers walking through our door are still in the setting they were bought in. Before we discuss a different shaft, we find out what the head you own can do when it is actually configured.
Order of Operations
We work one variable at a time, in this sequence, and we stop as soon as the numbers stop improving.
- Loft. Static loft and the hosel setting, tested against your measured launch angle and spin rather than against your ego.
- Face angle. Adjusted to your natural start line, which frequently removes a compensation in the swing at no cost.
- Weight position. Sliding or interchangeable weights moved to influence face closure and strike location.
- Length. Shorter than stock more often than longer. Centre-face contact is worth more than the half mile per hour a longer club theoretically buys.
- Shaft. Weight band first, then bend profile, then model.
- Head. Only if the above has been exhausted and the ceiling is genuinely the head.
Roughly a third of driver sessions here end with the golfer keeping their existing driver in a new configuration. We charge the same either way, which is the only way that recommendation stays honest.
What We Are Actually Optimising
Not ball speed. Ball speed is largely a function of how well you strike it, and no fitting adds ten miles an hour to a swing. What a fitting can do is change the shape of the flight so that the speed you already have converts into carry, and so that your misses stay in play.
| Clubhead speed | Launch angle | Spin |
|---|---|---|
| Under 85 mph | 14–17° | 2,600–3,100 rpm |
| 85–95 mph | 13–15° | 2,400–2,800 rpm |
| 95–105 mph | 11–14° | 2,100–2,500 rpm |
| Above 105 mph | 10–13° | 1,900–2,300 rpm |
Those are starting windows, not targets to chase. A golfer who curves the ball a lot benefits from sitting at the upper end of the spin range, because spin is what holds a shot on its line. Chasing the lowest spin number on the screen is how people end up with a driver that goes further and finds fewer fairways.
Cold Air Is Not a Rounding Error
Air density in Omaha in early April is meaningfully higher than in July, and every yard of carry you gained indoors gets taxed by it. We record your numbers with a note about the conditions and give you a cold-weather carry figure alongside the warm one, because that is the number you will be playing to on the first eight rounds of the season.
A driver fitted only for August is a driver that lies to you every spring.
What You Leave With
A configuration written down: hosel setting, weight position, length, grip size and shaft specification, plus the launch numbers that justified each of them. If you later buy a different head, that sheet tells the next fitter exactly where to start.