Ed: Thanks for the feedback. I have drawings for a mallet design, but that is as far it has gone. Sales have been brisk, but I would still like to hear more feedback before investing into tooling.
Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: Ed Reeder To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 2:36 PM Subject: Re: ShopTalk: putter fitting Jeff, Yes, I've seen it. It is a great start at addressing the problem. However, you need more variety of head shapes than you currently have. I'd also like to have center-shafted heads and more options for varying the headweights. If you did expand the line you would have, as far as I know, the only affordable putter fitting system in existence. I hope that there is a market for this. /Ed [email protected] wrote: Thanks John! Inquisitive minds want to know how things work and this started out as an R&D product that went mainstream. I have had guys use this to test for toe hang, offset, grip sizing and such using the TOMI and SAM PuttLab. Take a lot of guess work out of it...Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 2:02 PM Subject: Re: ShopTalk: putter fitting pretty nifty, Jeff. Wish I would have thought of that! Here's info on it. Three neck options (plumbers, straight, slant): http://support.hirekogolf.com/2012/02/hireko-golf-announces-new-dynacraft-spot-putter/ John shoptalk Ed: Have you seen something like the Dynacraft SPOT putter from Hireko. We set this up as an affordable way to test for a variety of specifications with the addition of multiple hosel pieces. Sincerely, Jeff Summitt Technical Director Hireko Golf ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Reeder" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 1:08 PM Subject: Re: ShopTalk: putter fitting John, A topic close to my heart. The opinion of a lot of clubfitters is that full-bore putter fitting (e.g., Edel) is not a money maker. You are better off, as you are thinking, to just tweak a golfer's existing putter (length, lie/loft, head/backweight). You won't be giving them their ultimate putter, but they'll be better off than they were before. IMHO an affordable putter-fitting system does not currently exist. I base this upon the belief that, as does Edel, the look of the putter has a huge effect on the golfer's ability to naturally aim it (this is what you are proposing does not address). In order to cover the bases you need different head shapes, shaft offsets, etc., etc. that you can mix and match until the golfer can point it where he thinks he's aiming. These variables require either a huge inventory of putters or an interchangeable component system. There is no inexpensive way to achieve this. Getting the aiming done is step one, from there on you address the other variables like length, lie, loft, weight, grip, face insert, etc. One last comment. Even if you had the ultimate fitting system would you get enough business to make it profitable? I'm not sure. One place I know that had the old Kirk Curry system got rid of it because their members, who nearly all had custom fit clubs, would show up with putters they had given to them or they picked up on a whim. It's hard to sell against the current "hot putter" on tour. I'll leave the specific questions you asked for others to answer. /Ed On Thu, May 3, 2012, at 12:39 PM, [email protected] wrote: Any good resources on putter fitting? Any of you have any hot tips/words of wisdom on this subject? I'm thinking a putter analysis at the course I do a little work at might be fun. From a few things I've read, it looks like checking loft and lie would be the main things to work on. Is putter loft/lie fitting done dynamically (like irons), i.e. watch a few putts and if they tend to pull left putter is too upright/push right then too flat? 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