I wandered around the nearest golf superstore called Golfsmith and tried out a couple in one of the bays but really hadn't a clue which make, loft or lie to choose. For this reason I had decided to spend some money having a proper fitting and had made a booking at the local GolfTec who offer both regular lessons as well as club fitting services. I turned up at 10:30 with my (elderly) clubs ready for the fray.
After having my arm length, hand size etc etc all measured, I was asked to hit a few balls with a special club that measured club speed. No great surprise that this came out on the lower end of standard - in fact, everything was bang in the middle of the various ranges. At this point, I was wondering why I had paid good money to get told that all I needed to do was buy something off the shelf...
And then we started hitting a few balls and it turned out that every time my club hit the ground, I was making contact with the toe end. I asked the guy who was helping me why that was and he showed me.... He played me back in slow motion a video of my swing and I was shocked... It was very clear that the take-away I was using was far too much in front of my body and that I was coming back at the ball in far too upright a position (hence the toe contact). Once he put a picture of someone (in this case Steve Elkington) who knew what they were doing on the other side of the split screen, the difference was palpable.
Maybe I should be having lessons rather than buying new clubs?
Anyway, I continued by trying out various makes: Ping, Callaway and Mizuno before going back to the first ones that he had selected: a set of TaylorMade PSi irons, with a lie of 2°.... these will be ready for me on my return here in mid February and we shall see if they make a difference or not....
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