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To custom fit your
golf clubs, you need to know:
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Your gender (male
or female)
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Your height in
your stockings or socks
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The distance from
your wrist (where it bends) to the
floor with your shoes off
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Your age
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Your handicap or
skill level
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How fast you
swing a golf club
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What club you use
at the 150 yard marker
Gender is used to put
you into the correct fitting scale. The
golf industry uses different definitions
of "standard length" for men and
women.
Your height and the
distance in inches from your wrist to the
floor are used together to determine the
length of golf club that is appropriate
for you. The starting point for club
length can vary up to 3 1/2" ranging
from ladies to mens plus 1 1/2". A
tall person with long arms can very easily
require shorter clubs than an average
height person with short arms. About 80%
of golfers are Standard length.
Your age, handicap
(if you happen to have one), self-assessed
skill level, estimated golf swing speed
and club you use at the 150 yard marker
are all combined to determined the shaft
flex that is appropriate for you.
PineMeadowGolf
has built an automated Custom
Fitting Wizard that collects this
information and quickly provides you with
your custom fitting result.
CLUB LENGTH &
FLEX
What should I know
about golf club length? Length is simply
how long the golf club is as measured from
the butt end of the grip down the back
side of the club down to where the club
meets the ground. A longer golf club will
hit further given the same swing speed —
so length can be a good thing. However,
since the swing arc is longer, it often is
also harder to keep under control — so
length can be a bad thing. All things
being equal, most golfers will opt for
longer length to the sacrifice of greater
control.
The standard length
of a steel shafted Driver for a man is 43
inches. Graphite shafted drivers are
manufactured 1 inch longer than steel
shafted clubs because graphite shafts
weigh less than steel shafts allowing us
to produce a longer club with the same
swing weight (a fulcrum measurement of the
proper balance and feel of a golf
club).
The proper length of
a golf club is a function of your height
and the length of your arms. We provide a Custom
Fitting Wizard that determines the
correct length for you with just two
simple measurements.
How long is a golf
club? There is no exact industry standard
for golf club length. To make everything
clear, we are letting you know our
standard club lengths for men and women
using both graphite and steel shafts. The
measurement is made with the golf club in
"address position" — club head
resting on the floor, grip end in your
hands. The measurement is made from the
floor up the back side of the golf club to
the butt end of the grip.
This information is
optional information for golf wonks and is
NOT necessary for buying our products or
getting fitted using our Custom
Fitting Wizard. It is reference
material for those interested in comparing
our golf club lengths to others.
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Men's
Standard Length
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Ladies'
Standard Length
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Graphite
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Steel
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Graphite
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Steel
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Ti Driver
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45"
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n/a
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44"
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n/a
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1 Wood
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44"
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43"
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43"
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42"
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3 Wood
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43"
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42"
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42"
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41"
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5 Wood
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42"
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41"
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41"
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40"
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7 Wood
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42"
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41"
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41"
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40"
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9 Wood
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42"
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41"
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41"
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40"
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11 Wood
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42"
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41"
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41"
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40"
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1 Iron
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40.25"
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39.75"
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39.25"
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38.75"
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2 Iron
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39.75"
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39.25"
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38.75"
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38.25"
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3 Iron
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39.25"
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38.75"
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38.25"
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37.75"
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4 Iron
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38.75"
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38.25"
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37.75"
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37.25"
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5 Iron
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38.25"
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37.75"
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37.25"
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36.75"
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6 Iron
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37.75"
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37.25"
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36.75"
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36.25"
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7 Iron
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37.25"
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36.75"
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36.25"
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35.75"
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8 Iron
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36.75"
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36.25"
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35.75"
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35.25"
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9 Iron
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36.25"
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35.75"
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35.25"
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34.75"
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PW
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36.25"
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35.75"
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35.25"
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34.75"
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SW
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36.25"
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35.75"
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35.25"
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34.75"
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LW
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36.25"
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35.75"
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35.25"
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34.75"
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Putter
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n/a
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34"
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n/a
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34"
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What should I know
about golf club flex? Flex is the
torsional stiffness of the golf club,
which is provided by the type of golf club
shaft that is used. Generally, stiffer
shafts are better for stronger hitting
golfers. Common shaft flexes are Men's
Regular, Stiff, Extra Stiff, Senior, and
Ladies. Interestingly, graphite shaft flex
terminology uses Firm and Extra Firm
instead of Stiff — we don't know why,
they are just the words the golf industry
uses.
The proper flex of a
golf club is a function of your strength
and golfing skills. We provide a Custom
Fitting Wizard that determines the
correct flex for you in just two simple
steps. Determining the correct flex is
most important for your Woods and longer
Irons. Short irons, wedges and putters are
not impacted very much by the different
flexes as the differences between flexes
becomes very small in the shorter clubs.
Often associated with
flex, is "kick-point" —
especially with graphite shafts. Less
experienced golfers generally benefit from
lower kick-point shafts, which help get
the ball up in the air. Better golfers
tend to favor higher kick points.
LOFT & LIE
ADJUSTMENTS
A word about loft and
lie adjustments. Some people receive
advice that they require a certain loft or
lie adjustment. We have never understood
loft adjustments since they merely change
the loft of the club. We recommend buying
golf clubs with the loft you seek and
avoid custom loft adjustments. Bending the
loft of an iron weakens the hardened metal
and can lead to future metal fatigue. If
the loft of your 5 iron is too strong, use
a 6 iron. If it is too weak, use a 4 iron.
Lie adjustment also
requires bending the hardened metal in
which an iron is cast. We do not think
this is a good practice and also advise
against it. It is particularly dangerous
in 17-4ph metal irons. Never lie adjust a
club more than 2 degrees. We don't lie
adjust clubs.
Interestingly, we
have only seen the experts recommend loft
and lie adjustments in irons, not woods.
Since woods are longer than irons, the
argument for any adjustment should be
greater for woods than irons. But no one
recommends adjusting woods. This has
confused us. But, then we concluded that
the reason for not recommending loft and
lie adjustments in woods is that it is not
possible to lie adjust woods after they
are cast at the foundry.
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