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Driver Fitting

The driver is the one club where landing angle barely matters and everything else does — carry, direction, and how repeatable your strike is under pressure. It's also the club most golfers have never actually had matched to their own swing.

Where We Start

Your Current Driver, Measured Honestly

Before touching a demo head, we log twenty to thirty swings with whatever you currently play, capturing ball speed, spin axis, attack angle, and dispersion. Most golfers are surprised by at least one number on that first printout — usually spin axis, which tends to run more tilted than it feels standing over the ball.

That baseline becomes the yardstick for the rest of the session. A demo head only earns a spot in your bag if it beats your own swing on a number that matters to you, not because it's this year's release.

Ball Speedmph
Spin Axisdegrees L/R
Attack Angledegrees
Smash Factorratio
Carry & Dispersionyds
Levers We Pull

Five Things That Actually Move the Needle

Static Loft

An adjustable hosel gets your effective loft to a number your attack angle can actually use, instead of whatever the head shipped set at from the factory.

Center of Gravity

Where the mass sits inside the head shapes launch and spin on its own, separate from loft. A rearward CG raises launch; a forward CG usually trims spin for a flatter window.

Shaft Weight

Weight influences timing and delivery far more than the flex letter printed on the shaft. We move through weight classes first, then narrow flex once tempo is settled.

Total Length

A club half an inch shorter than what you walked in with often produces more center strikes than it costs in raw distance, once you see both options on the same screen.

Forgiveness (MOI)

Players with a scattered strike pattern usually gain more from a higher-MOI head than from any change in shaft. We check this before recommending anything with less forgiveness.

Grip Size

A grip that's slightly too thin or thick changes hand release through impact and quietly moves the face at contact — cheap to fix, easy to overlook.

What Shows Up on the Printout

Three Patterns We See Weekly

Tilted Spin Axis

Curve is a face-to-path story first, but pairing the right shaft profile with a loft change can pull a persistent slice or hook back toward the middle while the swing itself keeps improving.

Flat, Knuckling Flight

Shots that drop early are usually short on spin relative to speed. Moving loft up half a degree at a time, watched live on the monitor, finds the point where the ball starts climbing properly.

Wide Left-Right Spread

A scattered dispersion pattern often has more to do with inconsistent contact than swing path. A higher-forgiveness head paired with correct length tightens the pattern before mechanics change at all.

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Sessions Run 60 to 75 Minutes

You'll test your current driver against demo heads across major manufacturers and leave with a written data report and, if you choose, a build order.

See Your Own Descent Numbers

Bring the clubs you play now. Every session ends with a written arrival report you keep either way.