I’ve just had my first ever full-bag fitting and the results were very, very interesting.
My current bag is comprised of hand-me-downs from my colleagues who get to test everything, as well as wedges I bought off the rack and a hybrid and 5-wood that I picked up second-hand from online retailers.
It is somewhat of a jumble but I’ve got to know them all very well and their tendencies.
It’s why I wrote a love letter to my decade-old irons earlier this year, with the familiarity of my setup a nice comfort blanket. I know how my clubs perform when I play well and what to expect when I’m not swinging it my best.
But just because I know them well doesn’t mean they’re right for me, and I found that out quite quickly when I visited the incredible Mizuno Tour Performance Centre at Bearwood Lakes in Berkshire.
I Just Had My First Ever Full-Bag Fitting… I Left Staggered
The state-of-the-art facility is regularly visited by the brand’s touring professionals and other elite players so I was very lucky to get the chance to have a session. My fitter for the morning was Joe Beck, an expert tour rep who has fitted the likes of Sir Nick Faldo, Colin Montgomerie and Marco Penge.
We started on the irons and I learned that my current MP-5s were an inch shorter than standard. Having inherited them from a colleague a decade ago, I either had no idea or had completely forgot if I was ever informed of that.
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Being a muscleback, they are also weak in loft so there were easy distance gains I was giving up.
I was fine with the weak lofts but in hindsight a short-hitting six-handicapper should not really be using clubs that are essentially made for tour pros.
As well as the lofts, the shafts were also an issue. My Dynamic Gold S300s were apparently far too heavy for me, which was why my launch was too low and descent angle was too shallow.
I was keen for the Mizuno M-15 irons as they offer a bit more help, but I was not spinning them enough and they were coming in too hot. In the end we arrived on the gorgeous Mizuno M-13s, fitted with Nippon Modus shafts that were around 20g lighter.
This was one of the top suggestions from Mizuno’s very cool Shaft Optimizer…
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