'Custom Fitting'

A well known website has quite a good offer on and I am after a new set of irons, they offer a 'custom fitting' option by getting your height, distance with a 7 iron and wrist height from floor.

Would anyone recommend this option or is going on site to be fitted a better option? I am off to the Algarve on Monday and cannot get down to a shop in time, the offer is to finish whilst I am in Portugal.

Cheers,

John.

John

Most places (in my experience) will offer to alter any changes made are a fitting anyway. If you dont want to miss the offer then get them online, see how you get on with them, if need be take them back when you return for any alterations.

Matt

John, just set you a PM with some info

For anyone interested in custom fit we did this feature last year:

http://www.golfshake.com/news/view/1698/Custom_fit_session_at_The_Belfry.html

John I went through the same thing recently.  I put all my details in online to see what adjustments they suggested.  I then went to a store for a physical custom fit and the results were exactly the same so I would say that these online custom fitting calculations seem pretty much correct

There is no way you can be custom fit correctly simply on the basis of height, weight and how far you hit a 7 iron.

What follows is a recent experience I had with custom fitting.

My son, a county golfer, visited the Titleist fititng centre at St Ives recently to be fitted for a resue wood.  It was a three hour round trip and the cost of the fitting was £40.  The result?  They refused to fit him because they could tell from the data that he wasn't swinging properly that day!  How did they know? They had fittied him for a driver previously and compared the the swing data from that fitting to what he was doing with the rescue wood.  Was I disappointed? Absolutey not.  For me that was the proper advice to give him.

If you are looking for custom fitting but don't want to be tied to a particular manufacturer I  would recommed a visit to somewhere like the Belfry.  For a modest price of £50 you get 1.5 hours of a trained professionals time and the benefit of £000's worth of equipment.  It is a worthwhile investment and they will take the £50 off the price of any clubs you end up buying.  Even better news is that the price of clubs at the Belfry are pretty competitive.  You might find them cheaper on the internet but only by a few pounds and they will not have been custom built for you.

Sanderslongdrive makes a very valid point in his post above.  Custom fitting is ideal for those who have a repetitive golf swing but how many people can honestly say that they do?  For many people the money spent on a new set of clubs would be better spent on lessons first.