Native is a strong word. I’m from North Carolina sir!
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I may or may not have used that term based solely on how much you I know you love living in Toledo!
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Same, please!
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Anyone in the metro Detroit area have recommendations on a place to get club gapping done? I’m intrigued on getting all my distances better known this spring and maybe making some adjustments based on what I find. I’m in Livonia to be exact. Wasn’t sure if a Carls offered that kind of service or if I needed to go to an instructor?
Carls, miles of golf, or club champion would all do this service.
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Thank you!
Just did iron and driver/woods fitting with Miles of Golf this month, and I highly recommend them. After hearing lots of so/so stuff about club fittings at other places like Golf Galaxy and Club Champion, I was very happy with the entire experience.
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You could do this yourself at Carl’s on the Trackman range. There’s even a program in the app that helps you do it.
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Yeah, what Brent said. Get the TrackMan app, hit 10-12 balls per club. Get your averages. Works pretty well, and it’s outside so that’s a bonus.
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+1 for Carls. I think they call it a bag analysis.
Never, ever go to Club Champion
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My coach is working on getting 3 TrackMan bays online up in Rochester. I wanna say it’s like 45/hr or less if you buy a few sessions at a time. I want to say it’s the cheapest TM time around here and it’s a pretty good setup
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Par me up in Macomb is a fantastic deal. https://www.parmeup.com/
I tried doing this last year and found my yardages were off even if you chose the adjusted. Everything was about club shorter than it was in “real” conditions. The instructor I normally see did some mid irons for me on his trackman during a lesson after I told him I did it myself with their trackman range because he didn’t think it was accurate.
I’m surprised the adjusted is that far off for carry, at least. It tracks the whole flight, but, mats+range balls may be tough to track
Second miles. Have done multiple fittings there and couldn’t be happier than the job they do.
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That’s weird, I’ve found it to be accurate, at least at the Bloomfield location.
I got new irons before last season and did gapping with them there in early spring. I didn’t do the find my distance function though. I just hit a bunch of shots over a few sessions, put them into Excel, dropped the outliers, and calculated the mean. Those numbers fit what would be expected (supposedly 10% of your PW carry is your gap between irons). And my Shotscope verified them during the season.
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Did your trackman numbers end up being normal comparatively (1 club higher than the gapping you did)?
Only curious because my experience is that people overestimate actual carry numbers. Also could have just been a poor contact day.
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For comparison my trackman numbers at Carls in Plymouth I averaged 162 carry with my 7 iron and the trackman with my instructor was 170 carry which is closer to what I “thought” based on shots on course.
Also to note my instructor had me hitting off grass vs me hitting on mats at Carls. So could have maybe been a weird ball striking day I guess. He seemed to be in the general opinion that I should use the trackman range data as a very loose guide. Either way I’m willing to pay for something I feel more confident in the data with. I’ll probably head over to Miles since I had such a good driver fitting experience there a year ago.
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I didn’t even know that place existed. I’ll have to check that out.
Also, CJ barrymores dome is a Toptracer range now. So not a bad option. Although it’s way busier now than before…
That’s completely fair. Definitely spend your money and time where you think you’ll get the best experience. Those two numbers arent egregiously different though and probably within pretty standard variation for amateurs.