Bring this piece of gear to get the most from your next club fitting

Club fittings are designed to assist golfers get rid of variables and discover the finest gear for his or her recreation, with the finish outcome of having 14 golf equipment in your bag that you would be able to belief.

In the case of a brand-agnostic fitting, you possibly can find yourself with golf equipment from varied manufacturers all through your set from driver to putter, however regardless of what golf equipment you play, there may be nonetheless another variable that you would be able to management on each shot — your golf ball.

From the outdoors, golf balls all mainly look the identical, spherical with dimples, however that’s like saying all 4-door vehicles are the identical as a result of they’ve the identical quantity of doorways. Like with vehicles the inside or the core of a golf ball and its design performs an enormous half in efficiency alongside the aerodynamics and this is why it is best to at all times deliver your most well-liked ball to a club fitting.

For a driver, this is essential as a result of it’s the one club in your bag the place the purpose is getting the most distance each time and if you’re giving up splendid launch and spin, or you might be match utilizing your non-preferred golf ball, the outcomes you see on the course received’t match what you noticed in your fitting.

The identical goes for irons and wedges as a result of they’re designed for scoring and hitting it shut. Even although it is perhaps nice to decide up further distance with your irons if you happen to can’t cease the ball on the inexperienced inside an inexpensive quantity of yardage, you’ll wrestle with any inexperienced that has a hazard in entrance or behind it. Having distance management is one of the most essential components of decreasing your rating, and having the proper golf ball to do that’s key.

So next time you might be headed to your next fitting, make the small funding of bringing a sleeve of your most well-liked golf ball so you possibly can deliver the outcomes from your fitting to the course, and begin capturing decrease scores.

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Golf.com Editor

Ryan Barath is GOLF Magazine and GOLF.com’s senior editor for gear. He has an in depth club-fitting and -building background with greater than 20 years of expertise working with golfers of all talent ranges, together with PGA Tour gamers. Before becoming a member of the workers, he was the lead content material strategist for Tour Experience Golf, in Toronto, Canada.