Last week I had the pleasure of getting fit at the Titleist Performance Institute in OceanSide, California. I had heard a lot about it from other friends in the industry, and to be honest, I thought everyone was a bit of glazing.
So I went inside and just expected a very nice game to hit some golf balls. And boy, I was wrong.
That is place phenomenal. It is run like a high-end private country club, it has the same amount of space as the other OEMs in the area together, and the versatility of the compound is really unparalleled. Everything about the experience was great, from my eight-minute video-guided warm-up to my almost four-hour fitting With Lucas Bro.
But one thing struck me when I woke up the next day: I had no ideas what my songs were. In essence, we have not drastically not drastically changed numbers from where I walked; We have just received my ball flight in a more efficient and more effective position.
On Fully equipped EP. 302 With Bryan Laroche I talked about my experience at TPI and I mentioned Co-host Johnny Wunder and Bryan that I think I may have watched my trackman data twice all the time. And it took a day to think about it, and then going back by the appropriate experience in my head to realize that the fitting was all about it me. Lucas asked me with every swing how it felt. What did I see that I liked? What did I see that I hated? How did it feel here? How did it feel there?
The fit was about me, not about my numbers.
In the past I have had a number of really great fittings at different locations: retailfitters, boutiquefitters and almost every big OEM. And I would say that everyone has always been a nice split of around 50/50 data of personal choice and feeling. I am a player of good enough to know when I like something or not, and those have always been open conversations with Fitters. I never thought anything was wrong about one of those experiences.
Why my assembly went this way
With Lucas, however, things just felt different. There were options that I looked at and that he did not like that he immediately pulled out of my hands. There were options that “touch him” that I waved with curiosity while looking at the data. My job was to concentrate on giving a good swing on the ball and giving him feedback about my game, my visuals and my feeling. I asked Lucas why my adjustment was run as it was, with a heavy focus on my feedback and the visual we saw instead of the data. This is what he said:
“I was not so curious about your feedback when I tried to let you vocalize things to prove a point. Sometimes players will want certain things, and you ask them rhetorical questions and it can contradict what they want. This reveals what they need and you come together.”
We have spoken a lot about my recent struggles on course with Iron Play, the love I have for my current driver, as well as a lot of time on how the bag works as a collaboration of tools that can overlap in responsibility – not individual silos that limit my game to get better. And this was all about wedges before he definitely talked about my thoughts. (But that’s a story for another day.)
“You also know a lot about clubs and the data, so I tried to keep you as blind as I could and concentrated on ball flight,” he added. “What does the ball do in the air and what should it do better?”
Your assembly must be provided for your needs
At the end of the four-hour piece I ran out of that appropriate feeling as if I had received all the tools to succeed without having to emphasize numbers or Nit-Bicky data points. Sometimes obtaining a suitable is not about changing numbers. It’s about changing opportunities, learning more about your game and puting tools in your hands that come to those figures in a more efficient and more effective way.
I will have an update about what we put in the bag as soon as I receive the clubs! Stay informed …
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