Had a fitting session at Fuzion Golf today.
http://www.fuziongolf.com/
For those who do not know who they are, they happen to be one of the premier golf fitting companies here in Florida, the other good one being Hot Stix Golf.
A session of full clubs evaluation with them cost USD$225. It will be a 2 1/2hr full analysis of your game and equipment with a certified PGA professional equipped with clubfitting skills. A SAM Putting Lab session cost USD$100. The 2 bosses have been in the golf industry for 45yrs with one of them, Kevin Walker, being a Golf Digest Top 100 Teacher since 1996.
My appointment with them was scheduled at 1300h. I arrived about half an hr early. 1st person I saw was Richard S. Johnson doing a fitting session with his TM clubs. For those who do not know, He was 91st in the FEDEX cup this year. Small sized guy but packs a punch with his ball striking.
Kevin introduced himself and he told me my session will be with their lead fitter, Dave Donovan. He told me to warm up in the spare booth with the Flightscope and passed me a bag of Pro V1Xs to loosen up.
Decided to just loosen up with my PW and 8i:
After he was done with the pro, Dave introduced himself and began asking questions about my game. It was an interview that spanned over 20min which included:
What is my game like
Scores
Strengths
Weaknesses
Ballflight desired and tendencies
Golf Equipment knowledge
What I would like to achieve
After that, the next 45min was spent checking my whole bag of equipment from Driver to LW.
Measurement of the specs like Lie, Loft, Length and Swing Weight. CPM was measured with the Fujikura Frequency Analyzer.
A graph was charted out to see which clubs were the odd ones out that didn't fit into the bag. Explaination was given to tell me how to improve the setup with options.
After that, off to the Trackman we go! As it has been over an hr, I was allowed to loosen up again. Just to compare results with the Flightscope, used my PW again:
A certain quirk about indoor fitting with the Trackman is that a silver dot sticker has to be used to allow for accurate Ballspeed readings:
Off we went hitting my own clubs. I was pounding ball after ball with it as I was pretty confident that I have my own specs nailed down....How wrong I was.
I was given at least 10-12 different iron clubhead and shaft combos to try out. Around 15-20 balls hit per club. That is at least 200+ balls hit to find out which shaft, head and most important, my feel felt best. This session was the most tiring as it was a mixture of both a golf lesson and a golf fitting. Being a certified teaching professional, he could tell me what caused the pushes, pulls, hooks and good shots. As a bonus, he worked the figures on the system to make me understand and quantify the numbers to mean something to the swing.
After that, we did a Driver fitting. He again asked me what I like in a Driver. I told him I like Titanium heads, traditional shapes and no composite feel. He went off and picked out quite a few combos to try while I warm up w my own driver. I must say that although the Graman Kajiki proto was CPMed to be on a hard side of an 'S' instead of the listed 'X' but on the trackman, the numbers were pretty good with the rpms (2500+). However, Launch Angle was too low (9*).
He corrected swing flaws along the way and because it was a longer club, the faults were magnified and it showed on the readings.
After trying out a few interesting combos with PING's G15 and i15:
which was okay...I told him I didn't like the contact and he went off to find some Titleist equipment. I graduated to the Diamanas in the Titleist heads. I was given the Redboard, Blueboard, Whiteboards to try. in 63S, 63X, 73X. I was also given the Fubuki in X flex and Rombax 75X to try.
What surprised me was the results. A 10.5 head automatically gave me a 10yd extra carry with identical shafts and heads. We tested extensively between the D2 and the D3 and settled on the D3 as the rpms were under 2800 so we do not want extra spin by going to a shallower profile head.
Next came the 3 wood, I humbled found that although I hit the FT tour issue 13* great off the tee. I wasn't getting enuff carry with it due to the launch being only 7*. This gave me huge amounts of roll. I told him I wanted a higher launch with the same head cos I hit it great off the tee. He made me hit a bunch of 3wd combos again and we finally settled on a softer tip shaft with X flex: the Accra Axiv XT 70 M5 giving us the best carry numbers.
The same was done with my Taylormade TP Hybrid. I tried out the Diamana thump 103g hybrid shaft which was just a bullet but launched low becos of the TP head so we again search for a softer tip shaft. Took us a few tries before we settled on the Accra Axiv XH 85 M5. The feel of it was just slightly softer than the thump but carry was so much different.
We checked the time and it was 5.30pm. Wow! 4 1/2hr gone in a whizz. I still had a SAM putting lab session with them and they were supposed to close at 5pm. He told me not to worry about it so he told me to take a short break before getting out my putters.
SAM PUTTING LAB
We got fitted up on the Science And Motion Putting Lab session with the 1st thing being the zeroing of the putter to target with a laser:
After that, the session starts with 10 putts with your standard stroke:
A SAM lab report was printed out to me. Wow, the immense amount of information was astounding. Every detailed was explained to me over the average of my 10 putts - My aim was good but I was cutting across with my stroke and to compensate for that, I was holding the face open so that it would go straight. That causes a 2 way miss because the arms and hands were manipulating the stroke.
The next 1 1/2 hrs was spent correcting my putting path to be more like Stan Utley style. The sensations were so different from the way I have putting over the years so it really took awhile before I could do it properly.
Finally, some good results:
Overall, I must say this has been a very unique and positive experience. It is a real eye-opener for me regarding golf club fitting as it also gives everyone a chance to see how a professional golfer gets fitted.
They are also very customer oriented. What I paid for ($325) to do fitting turned out to be actually a 6hr lesson cum equipment reality check. I highly recommend them whoever is intending on coming here for holidays.
Here are some links of them on The Golf Channel webpage:
http://www.thegolfchannel.com/golf-videos/infuze-game-blair-oneals-big-makeover-webisode-1-12712/?ref=26000&rsec=457
http://www.thegolfchannel.com/golf-videos/infuze-game-episode-2-blair-physical-12849/?ref=26000&rsec=457
http://www.thegolfchannel.com/golf-videos/infuze-game-episode-3-christmas-early-12850/?ref=26000&rsec=457
PS: Don't get too distracted...
Subject: My Day @ Fuzion Golf in Jupiter, Florida. 
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