How To Choose The Best Irons For YOU | Golf Club Fitting EXPLAINED with Michael Breed

You need a

club

that needs a little more loft, you might need a

club

with a little shorter shaft, whatever it is, you need to make sure you can hit that 3 wood, you also need to answer the question of what it's for, Am I using this as a stick handler for distance so I wanted to get as far as I could or am I adjusting a gap and finally what is the purpose of this? What are we doing with this? Where am I hitting this? Am I hitting in the street? Am I hitting? off the tee, what are the things I'm doing with this club?

As you answer those three questions you will find yourself in the right club and you will understand exactly what you need to do when it comes to hitting your 3 wood. and having the right 3 wood in your bag and that is our grip tip brought to you by

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, it's time to show it brought to you by Titleist and I keep telling you the ball is here and it's in yellow which I can't wait so what do I want? What I want to talk to you about today is how to get in shape for

golf

clubs and it's important that you understand that when you get in shape for

irons

there are a lot of things that go into this.

I know about the shaft length. I know about the weight. I know about the shaft length. I know about the weight. about my angles, I know about the flight, I know all those things that we're not going to talk about, what we're going to talk about mainly is how the head of this club affects the golf ball and I know that it's all Concordia. Get it, but you need to understand how this works, so what we're going to do is set up a little graph to give you an idea of ​​what's going on. This is the MB, the muscle, the back of the leg socket, the back CB AP 2 AP 3 us.

We'll start with this MB. When we look at this, we'll look at five different areas. The areas we're looking at are obviously the distance the ball travels, but we'll also look at the speed of the ball. the spin of the ball, the launch of the ball and the apex of the ball, so we'll start here with this MB. Now when we talk about this particular club, what you need to understand is that the head of the club has a center of gravity that is the highest. on the head and also has the center of gravity that is closest to the face.

What does that do? It should do a couple of different things, but it's typical for a player who is a high clubhead speed player and what we're trying to do is try to get this golf ball down a little bit, we can also add a little bit more loft, so even though this is a 7 iron, it's going to have different loft than, say, the AP three and us. We're going to see completely different results with this golf ball, so let's start with just an MB 7 iron, so it's a pretty good swing, a very nice apex and you can see when that golf ball lands at the downswing angle and it What I mean by angle of descent is when this ball enters the green, how does it respond?

Does it roll or release? Or does it stay close enough to where it landed? Why would he stay near where he landed? Well, we'll look at a bunch of different First we're going to look at the apex of shot 102, which means it actually gets there. We will also look at the launch angle which is one at 21 degrees, 21 degrees for your 7 iron and with that apex. that ball is going to come down, it's going to land pretty softly now the ball flew in the air about 166, it had a ball speed of about 115 and a half, so the speed of the ball was pretty good, the distance it went was pretty good and We also observe the speed of rotation. around 6400, so what we need to do is take some notes, so let's start with the distance 166.

Now what you should also pay attention to and let's come back here it gives me why I did it. I don't point out exactly what I wanted the 166 ball to carry, it just came loose around point one, what's maybe a couple of feet? In other words, the ball landed and it's pretty much where his pitch mark was right, so that's something we're paying for. Pay attention to that total distance, there are approximately 166, the speed of the ball is 115 point five, the spin of that ball is approximately 6400 and the launch angle is 21 degrees, which I told you about and I will do, let me do it again because I have to delete. those 21 degrees on that launch and the apex at 102, okay, that's my baseline on the MB, so let me bring you the CB here and we'll give it a chance now, we should see numbers pretty similar to this with the CB, so there is a very good shot, let's go and check what these numbers are because these numbers are very comparable again and what we got was a ball speed of about 115 so the ball speed is about 115 114 and a half 114 and a half, so just a little bit less, I may have missed, well now the distance is 162 and the launch is about the same, the spin rate there was very high, that spin rate was 69 hundred and the launch angle was a little lower, nineteen. point five with an apex of about 93, so I lost a little bit of trajectory, I lost a little bit of launch and although I gained some spin, what I also noticed is that the golf ball released a little better, so that's it what We're with the CB now now we jump to the AP now with the AP what's happening here is that the center of gravity of this golf club has now gone down a little bit and it's also moving away from the club face and when it moves away from The face of the club should also help lift it up into the air a bit and the loft on this club is less than what we would see with the MB, but since the center of gravity is back there, this should travel at least the same distance .

So this is a really good shot again and right on my numbers, so let's look at this one now because it's really interesting again that one flew about 168 and only dropped about half a yard, so pretty good, right? We're talking about a foot and a half, we also saw the ball speed increase a little bit and we saw the apex about the same in launch angle, about the same, so we're in pretty good shape here, let's write this distance total. is 168, so it takes me a little bit longer on that, we also see the speed of the ball increases to one seven ten point four, so I increased the speed of the ball and my spin speed by about sixty six hundred sixty six fourteen angles launch on that twenty-first. point four, wait I can do two better than that so I got twenty point four and my apex was 104 so I hit this a little bit higher and I also got a little more distance that's what I got with this club now .

What I also got, what is this, if I hit this a little bit off center, the MB, if I don't hit it, it stays in the center, when I hit it on the tip, it won't respond the same way. now we go to AP three and this is where we are going to see a really big change. Now what happens with the AP three, this is the one that's in the combination of what's in here, tungsten and all that other stuff, all of a sudden. I have a bigger head, it's longer from heel to toe, it also has a little more mass, a little more tungsten, so what happens with this particular club is that it has less loft than even the ap2, so when we get into this.

What we're going to see happen is this ball will have less spin, it'll have a little more distance, the apex will maybe be a little lower and the launch angle will decrease, make sure we have that. that target is right and this one is a little bit to the right of where I wanted to hit it so it probably changed some things a little bit on me but let's see what we get remember we talked about the things that were going to happen. I was going to get a little lower launch I was going to get a little more distance I was going to get a little faster ball speed all that so you can see the carry distance was about 177 but the ball rolled two yards?

Why did it roll two yards? Well, now you come down here and you can see that the spin speed is 55, maybe 5600, so there's less spin that won't stop the ball from coming loose and let it go. What I also got was I got a little bit lower launch remember we were at 20 and I think it was twenty point four we got 18 point four so let me write this down here so we understand exactly what happened as I do my little journey as a gourmet leader right there, so 177 is what I got. in my total distance, my ball speed now jumped to 119 point three, my spin speed reaching 5600, the launch angle drops to the lowest, but it is eighteen point four and the apex is at 96, so I'm a little bit shorter, so when we look at all of these things, what we're looking at are a couple of different things.

What we noticeably get is that we get variations in the distance, how far the ball travels, we also get variations in the speed of the ball, even those are the seven. Irons go a different distance and spin speed is different so that affects what happens when the ball hits the green, combine that with apex and launch angle and you have a club that performs differently and that's what we get when I put this in. Here and we start to look at all of this, there are a couple of things that I really want you to understand as we point out the difference in how the ball travels if I go from B or C B towards the AP line that I'm going to win. a little bit more distance when I go into that, I'll also gain a little more ball speed and this is the fun part of this when you start looking at the ball speeds here, this one here is around 115 and this one here averaging 118 so I'm going to get a little bit more ball speed on that AP line because of the way the club is made and when you start paying attention to getting in shape for a club you have to pay attention to a couple of different things how it looks like how it looks is it too long is it too short where is the center of gravity all of these different things are important factors in the performance of the golf club so what do you want to happen?

When you examine the golf club, what do you want in its performance? Do you want something to help you when hitting off-center shots? Well, if you do, you're probably on this kind of p3 line where we're getting a little bit bigger head, a little bit lower CG, a little bit of a CG away from the clubface and what that gives you. allows you to do is take away some loft and as you do that you will get a little bit more distance now what is that what are you giving up? Well, you're going to give up a little bit of spin right here.

I gave up between AP 3 and AP 2. I gave up about a thousand rpm of spin, what does that mean? That means that ball is going to loosen up a little bit more when it hits the green and now we start to take into account the other combination and get into shape and that's the type of golf ball you play, we don't have enough time. To get into all of those things, but this is what you need to understand first, you need to get in shape for your golf clubs, it's very important. I cannot stress how important this is.

Secondly, don't go in with the idea that you know what I am. If you're going to get in shape for this particular club, you want to check your performance and you in it, and you want to understand how this club is going to perform for you, so that when you go out to play you know what's good, I'm willing to do it . Give up a little bit of release on the green so I can get a little bit more distance or I want a little bit higher spin rate, so when I start to get a little bit higher spin rate, but I also want some forgiveness, I want to get a Seabee and that feels a little different to me and I like the way it feels and I don't mind that as much and if I go to the ap2 well I'll get half a club more distance.

I'm also going to get that little forgiveness from Missis, which is what I like to play, so when I go to play, I'm playing the ap2 right here and I'm going to play one for you when I play the ap2, this is this. is the club that is for me I have the shaft exactly how I want I have the length exactly how I want the overall weight the grip size lie angle everything is built for me so that when I stand on this club I am going to I have the greatest feeling of success and I'm going to hit a shot that will go more or less around the target I'm trying to hit at my angle of descent will be such that the ball lands and stays pretty. a lot of what I wanted, so what you can see is that one was around 169.

I told you when I hit it last time it was 168, that's consistency, predictability, my launch angle right at the number I want, I could my apex in the number I want. I want my swing speed to be about 6300. All of those things are essential, so when you start getting into golf club shape, which I tell you is essential, you have to pay attention to everything, along the shaft . lean the weight, but you have to concentrate on what's happening with the head and how the golf ball will respond, and don't forget that the ball you're playing is essential to all this makeup, okay, and that shows that there is issue for Dude, we're talking about fit, it's time to fix FootJoy, so I want to talk to you about the putter, this is the club you've probably never gotten fit for and it's the one you need to get in shape with the most and What I wantLet me clarify for you both the different things you need to pay attention to because most people do well.

I must have the right length putter or I must have a putter head that suits my putting style. I want to take it back. From start to finish I need to have a balanced face, but that's not it. Yes, those things are important. I'm not saying that, but what I am saying is that you have to pay attention to a lot of different things. I'll show you one. A couple of different things because they'll teach you about marksmanship. Aim is one of the most important things in putting, so when I get ready to hit a putt, what I want to be able to do is aim the putter when the putter is not there. in motion and then aim the putter when the putter is in motion and if I can do both, I'm going to hit a putt that will have a chance to go in, so what do I think about when it comes to aiming? a couple of things lines of sightSo as I hold this putter here like this, what you can see is I have two lines of sight.

I have three points and those sight lines, by the way, are in yellow. Let me show you something that will look a little different. For you, let's say I pick up this putter right here and what you notice about this putter is that there are no sight lines on this putter, this putter has no sight lines and there are a lot of people that can aim a putter without having a sight line. of vision, maybe you are one of those people who would like to have the right point, so we have a bettor who has it here.

There is another good one. Here you can see that this putter has some sight lines, three different sight lines, but it also has a point there and that point. helps you place the ball in the center of the putter head, so when we lower this putter head I can see, hey, you know what that dot looks like that's in the center of the putter head, now I can make that thing works, the problem is that I might not be able to aim correctly, so I also want to show you some other things. This is fun too.

You can see that these two putters here have similar sight lines but they have some different colors and most importantly, now I want to change this camera. over here givers if you could and I want you to notice the difference in the necks now you can see this one here has a longer neck before bending this one has a short neck before bending what does that mean? Well, if I leave this, the putter hangs without applying pressure. You can see the face of the putter pointing towards the sky. If I take this similar putter but with a different neck and let it hang, what you're going to see is that putter hangs. about a 45 degree angle, something like that, but it doesn't hang like that, that ghost 7 was pointing straight up at the sky, this ghost 8 hangs at a different angle, like that, now if I were to take that putter that I showed you earlier. one here with the point and I let it hang, what you can see is that the toe points directly towards the ground and or almost like that, not quite, but almost like that, what does that mean, does that putter mean? you're going to have a little bit more flow on the toe and as that starts to happen, there are people who make a great putt with that.

They're not victims of the idea that a certain putting stroke is going to require a certain putter because what you have to do. First is that you have to be able to aim. The other thing you have to be able to do is look. I like the look of this putter, so when I set it up, I go, yeah, I feel like I'm taking aim. Pretty good at this, when I hit that putt, that putt has a chance to go in and as I do these little things, I notice the feel because the feel was a very big part of this, so now I'm going to go to this other putter.

This other putter here, which is a Phantom 12, which you can see if I hold it up, has all those sight lines, but it has a couple of different wings and those wings, because it's almost square, helps a number. of people aim better there are so many different things that happen in the aiming part the sight lines the colors the type of neck the length which was pretty good really solid a different feel too so as we start to adjust what we pay The Attention to the first thing is: Can I aim when I'm stationary and then can I aim when moving?

Well, we started talking about aiming. What I would tell you to do is, when you are going to get in shape, make sure. I can hit a straight putt and then a left-to-right breaking putt and a right-to-left breaking putt. What I like to do is with my students. I like to stay about 10 feet away from the hole, which is what I've done. I get about 10 feet away from the hole and then I like to see if they can aim straight and they can aim for the left edge or they can aim for the right edge; that's my test, then I go to the side from left to... right putt, can you aim it at the left edge?

Can you aim a ball out? I'm always working on his ability to aim when he's not moving from there. Then I start to figure out what putters work for them and then I have a lot to do with that, so this neck here is what we call a plumber's neck, let me get you a flow neck or a gooseneck and what you can see is that These two necks are completely different, so when we start looking at this people are going to point at these two putters that are virtually identical, they're going to point them completely differently because of the way the neck goes into the head of the putter and the neck of the putter. plumber tends to move around a little more.

The putter head on this one tends to be like this. The leading edge tends to be outside the trailing edge of the shaft and this one here, the leading edge tends to be inside the shaft and what that does is it puts the putter head further back from the ball and that allows me to. What you possibly need to do is aim for that one a little bit better. What does it all mean? What it means is that you can't just walk up; You've had a bad day putting and what you end up doing is going.

I need With a good putter, you go out to the green, hit a couple of putts and do it. This one is much better and you may even get lucky and it may work and then it may not and it works for a moment and then it doesn't. It doesn't work forever and you take it, but you have a collection of putters in your basement, that's what you have. Raise your hand, yes, I hope we all do because you didn't get in shape and what I've discovered is that getting in shape is the most important thing in putting control of the face, control of the face, that direction and how the face is moving now, we finally get to the length of the putter, then we get to the eye position and as I set myself up correctly and now have my eyes in the correct position, all of a sudden I can see these two lines of sight going exactly where I want them to go.

Can I measure it? Can I max it out or set it right when I'm passing? That's where we start our exercises, that's when we start our practice, that's when we start trusting ourselves and doing well. I'm set up right and now I hit that putt and all of a sudden I started going, ah, do you know what these putters are? It's not for me because I can't square this one properly, but when I go to this one now, all of a sudden, because of the different way the neck works now, all of a sudden this feels a lot better when I hit this putt.

Hey, look, here. I did and what I need you to understand is this: you have to be in shape for your putter and you have to pay attention to a lot of different things: sight lines, points, neck, length, weight, head type . a nurse's timing all these different things the center of gravity all of that how the ball rolls how it responds what kind of adjustment a lot of things happen in this and what I can tell you is that when you get in shape properly you should never have to get in shape again in shape you always want to check you always want to make sure that the putter that I'm using in my I'm still lining up this correctly is a ball position that gets lost when you get to a point where you can aim this correctly both in a stagnant situation and then in a dynamic situation, when the putters are moving, when you are able to do that, that is when you will start to putt much better, have much more consistency. and lower your scores and that's our FootJoy stuff