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I don't think my post did fully justice to the important of club fitting. It influences the result of any shot in very distinct ways, but it also forms your stroke in important and permanent ways.

I am a big fan of club fitting but I don't trust any and all club fitters. The problem with a lot of the club fitting that goes on is that players are fitted to the swing they are hoping to improve from and not the swing they want to end up with. So they leave the club fitter with clubs that has damage control inbuilt for OTT, downstroke deceleration, a steepening of the sweetspot plane towards impact and what have you. Basically clubs that support bad habits and not clubs that will support and reinforce the changes they want to do in their stroke.

It doesn't require military precision to get in the ball park of a reasonably good fit. But a little knowledge about how lie angle, face angle, shaft flex & shaft weight can get you a long way.

I'll keep this in mind. But first I'll have to see how the ball striking - and the scores - goes when the season eventually begins (before it's winter again !!? )