Just back from
www.sggt.co.uk
Cracking few hours with Scott himself doing the fitting.
Very interesting way of fitting....
After an intro as to why I'm there/what I was looking for - His take is to start at the top of the bag - wedges
He gave me 6 different wedges/grinds/models (all 60 degrees) - told me to just hit them to the 25 yard flag - 4 balls each. Blind - don't look at models etc - Put them in "good" pile or "rubbish" pile after hitting them. I didn't look at the bottom of the clubs at all - no idea on models etc
Then he took the good ones and threw some balls onto the grass outside the bay - again - just hit them as they lie etc - after eliminating a few came down to Vokey wedges worked best for me. Tried hi-toe/glide/mizino etc but Vokey just worked perfect for me.
Iron fitting - as you can see from pictures - so much choice - tried various Mizuno/TM/Callaway/Cobra etc - Different shafts/lengths etc - Ended up between Callaway Apex and P790. Overall I preferred the Callaway heads. (hit 6 iron/4 iron/PW in them all)
Played around then with combo set slightly - 4/5 irons in Apex DCB (slightly more forgiving etc)
But ultimately settled on 4 iron in the Apex DCB and 5 - UW in Apex. Stiff Modus 120 shafts as the set.
2 Vokeys 52/58.
Hit my own Cobra hybrid and he found nothing wrong with it - works well, goes long and fairly straight - wouldn't change it.
Hit 8 - 10 balls of my own driver and after a chat he was very honest - If I want to get fitted for a driver & 3 wood - he would do so. His personal opinion- a few lessons and stick with driver/3 wood for now - Despite it being 10 years old, (TM 2.0 Burner) - I would be unlikely to get much more distance / greater accuracy from a new driver. Probably better to get a couple of driver lessons to improve that area of my game. He said it's like I have two swings - irons and then almost a slightly different driver swing!
On my good swings/hits - I was carrying 265/70 and rollout 280/285 - A new driver won't really add much more for my swing speed/angle of attack/spin rate etc.
Whilst I hit it out the middle of the face, with a fairly consistent strike, the face angle is quite "variable" (i.e one swing is open face, next square, next shut) - Improving that aspect would be worth more to me than spending £400/500 on a driver at this time! Very honest of him.
So for now, irons/wedges potentially to purchase - he's pricing up and will email me as they build them onsite, and will see about other stuff later down the line.
So much stuff to choose from - place is amazing! Great day out.
kicking myself. I also bought some Titleist velocity matte green balls, they weren't very nice to hit, just felt like rocks. But as someone who struggles to follow white balls in flight, glasses etc. they were so easy to follow, see in the distance. Made it much easier watching them sail into the water and the trees lol