The putter is the most used club in the bag, but often, so is the club for which fewer golfers earn custom fits.
However, this is beginning to change.
Barrel fittings are now a rapidly growing segment of the custom club business, and Fully equipped co-host Wadeh Maroun recently had the opportunity to go through a barrel assembly IN Headquarters of ping in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Maroun co-host Kris McCormack was along for the ride, and he explained how Maroun fitter and Ping Master Alex went about the testing process and how it helped Maroun achieve such good results.
“I like the approach you were talking about that Alex has where you collect all the data and do all the initial adjustments in a vacuum in a lab-type environment where you can control all the variables,” McCormack said in this week’s episode. . . “But the secondary part of that confirmation about putting green.”
McCormack unpacked that thought a little further.
“Have you ever heard of parallax distortion?”
“Absolutely not,” Maroun said.
“Perfect,” McCormack said. “So it’s basically the players’ interpretation of their environment and how they will subconsciously begin to adapt to external linear influences.”
In layman’s terms, this means that golfers do not play golf on perfectly conditioned ranges or flat greens. They play a course that will present them with a unique shot, target, wind and many other variables. How you hit a club or a club in a controlled environment is not exactly how you hit it in real life.
“You’ll see this a lot in a suitable indoor environment,” McCormack said. “So you’re going to have a square screen and a square ground that you’re hitting from. And just everything is square, square, square, square. And the same thing in a deterministic environment, you have all these external linear influences that start to manipulate things.”
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That’s why, McCormack said, a fit isn’t complete until you get out on a real green and validate what you’ve seen in the controlled environment.
“It’s not true, because you’re on a perfect carpet. right?” Maroon said. “There’s always a little groove, so everything goes right. So you’re like, ‘Hell yeah, how am I hitting this right every time? This shooter is amazing.’
“It’s when you go outside and the variables come into play. A real life putt is one of the hardest things to hit on a golf course.
Maroun’s fitting experience is coming soon to GOLF’s social channels, and you can watch the entire episode of GOLF’s Fully Equipped below.
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