What a great example of a professional fitter . An example for all to follow

I feel in love with the forgiveness and high ball flight of Ping irons some 5 years ago. Never really realized that the precision of my iron game was gone. Rented a set of players forged irons while on vacation and my old iron game was back. Pings out Mizuno JPX forged in.

Just found this channel really interesting. Amazed how differently "similar" heads perform.

Just subscribed - love watching your fitting sessions. Never had the confidence to go myself, so really interesting to see how it all works

Really enjoyed the video, especially the honesty contained within the closing comments in light of how expensive golf equipment can be these days. That alone would make me come to you guys for a fitting in that it clearly wasn't a fitting session followed by a pressure to complete a sale.

I know were I will be getting fit for my next Driver/Iron set ...superb and thorough fitting session !!!!

New subscriber alert!!!..love how its max 4 shots and take it out if not working...always best to keep their confidence!

Great fitting session.

love your professionalism

Such a great watch. You are awesome for supporting him in buying pre-owned as well.

t150 are great. Just got them fitted aswell. I have T150 from 48-6i and t200 5i and 4i. Love that combination. I play around Hdcp 10 aswell

Love the Callaway pro ..very nice to hit

Great video.

Thank you for this video. You are a very good fitter and I enjoy these videos. I recently gave up my Miz JPX 923 HM after only a year or so. Back to a more of a cavity back players irons to get my game back. I'm on Srixon ZX5/7 blended set at the 6/7 iron and love them.

Cool fitting!

Cool video, good work by the fitter for sure. Reminds me of my session a couple of years ago. I wanted the ZX5 really bad but could not deny the numbers i was putting up with the Apex 21s so I went with those. My goal for 2024 is to get back to single digit (12 hcp currently) and so I need my dispersion to tighten up. Seems like the Elevate 95s are a tad too light for me so i look forward to going back to the fitter and see if a different shaft in a 105g may yield better results. Love this game!

So much better than the fitting I had for mine. 👍

Good vid!

Great video!

Just subscribed, I went into my local shop for a fitting on Saturday and I really liked the look of the p790s but just couldn’t hit them well enough, I hadn’t ever looked or even really heard of the callaway apex but like this gentleman here I felt like I couldn’t miss with them so purchased them! Look forward to them arriving. Great video keep it up.

Love the way you go about your fittings. Very patient and relaxed environment. I was a p770 guy and recently changed to the new PXG 0317T. Better feel, more efficient, and a bit longer. I was very surprised.

Great fitting, great video, you are not that far from me either, I think I’ve found where I’m going to when I next upgrade!

these are great videos thank you

I felt he wanted to edge for the T150's but then soon realised the Apex's just worked so well for him on his miss hits, I probably should get myself in for a fit sometime soon, Using the good old stealth irons and went from a 13hc to a 7.7hc this season, I really like my irons the only thing I do hate is I do tend to miss a lot left.

I really like these fitting vids. I recently did a titleist fitting. I really wanted to like the t200 irons. Found a good shaft when I flushed it.. all the numbers were great But slight off center hits I was losing 10-15 yards consistently. That was way too much distance gap. Was a great fitting and the pro was super helpful like your self. Sadly the worst experience fitting I had was with a pxg guy who seemed bored as hell. But the Gen5 p irons were bang on compared to everything I hit. Not to mention quite a bit less during the holidays.

The level of time and care you are taking is awesome. I cannot find that anywhere in my area. And I have access to the PGA Superstore, Edwin Watts, Club Champion, Golf Tec and Tru Spec. Kudos to you.

Great fitting bro!!! Love the Apex Pro. Been finding combo 200-350 is a great set-up

good video. I just got fitted. Pretty much tried the same clubs. But I hit the apex and ping i230 the best. Went with a combo set of the apex pro but with a 130-gram shaft. On the 115 I felt like I tried to slow the swing down. Average speed was 85 (115g) but with the 130g I went up to 88 mph. average carry with 7 iron apex pro was 178. 8-PW I went with the apex mb. Love this combo set. They're pricey.

Very intuitive vlog! I’m due for a refit soon. Had my clubs 5 years now Ping i200 looking for a bit more feel. Especially when it comes to pitch and chipping!

Love the videos Ross especially the fitting videos with customers 👍, can’t wait to come down and have a fitting session myself, booked in for the middle of Jan and can’t wait, keep Up the great work mate 🏌️‍♂️

I’m a 14 handicapper who has been anywhere between 12 & 16 in a calendar year 2023. Shows you what WHS does. Bonkers system that doesn’t allow for the average 20 mph winds at our links club. First hole si11 par 3 174 yards. In the morning 3 wood comes up short, 4 hours later, wind switch 7 iron goes out the back! 😂😂

great watch more of this please

I’m a New Subscriber, A 👍🏻ker, A 🔔 ringer, and A 💯% commenter. Great video ! Really enjoyed it.

Watching this now. This fitting session is pretty identical to the one I had with Ross a couple of weeks ago. Just that my ball striking was not as good 😂 being a 15 handicapper. The irons fitting session I had was excellent as well and helped me make the right decisions for my next set of irons and goal setting.

Over 10 years ago I got some super game improvers, Cleveland HB3's. I didn't need them then, and I often have felt it hurt. Looking forwatd to getting back home and getting my SRIXONS mixed set.

old mate so wanted you in to the apex :)

Great fitting!!

@CamMacMaster I also tend to agree. I am good with my irons, fair with my driver, but was absolutely terrible with my 3 wood except off the tee. I also struggled with my 4 hybrid. I recently was lucky enough to talk to a very knowledgeable salesman at my local golf shop, and he recommended the King tec 21 deg 4 hybrid adjusted to 22.5 and a Ping SFT G430 16 deg 3 wood adjusted to 17.5, and it helped tremendously. But no fitter had ever mentioned that and I didn’t even know it was possible. I also believe that all this talk about high handicap is misleading because you can be very good with your driver and irons, but if you can’t get it on the green and in the hole you will still have a high handicap. I believe fittings to be essential but most amateur golfes would probably benefit more from proper lessons and knowing what to work on.

Another great fitting video. I have watched a lot of your content and always find it unbiased and very informative. I will definitely be booking myself in for a fitting with you. I understand why there was no Srixon ZX7 tested but why no Cobra King Tour? It has had some great reviews and sits in the 32 degree loft region.

Interesting watching this as ive just been through a similar process myself. Trying the same clubs over a couple of sessions to minimise the influence of swing fatigue during the process. With my pro, and GC Quad, i tested various combinations of club head and shaft. I loved the look of the Ping i525 but they performed no better than my current Stealth irons, even though i was hitting them sweet as. I tried Titleist T150 and T200s, but saw negligible improvement. I tried Callaway Apex and hit them well but similar negligible benefit observed......and then got my hands on Paradym. Ridiculously tight dispersion, and a minimum of fifteen yards gained (longest was +32yds) overvthe two sessions. I then took my current 7 iron and a couple of those clubs to the range and repeated the process in a more 'real world' scenario. The results on both the Toptracer and Trackman ranges were consistent with each other and the GC Quad data. Paradym was hands down the best club for me. Moral of the story: trust the data rather than the fitter unless you know your fitter and trust them, and hit plenty of balls before settling on a decision.

I am a 16 HCP and was thinking I was going towards the G430 Irons. I tried them and hated them. Ended up going with the i230s, and what a good decision that was!

I guarantee you there is not a single professional golfer that you could offer a club to hit, that they would say, "hey, i havent been fitted for that yet". Tiger used to flex by hitting old resin woods at 50+ yardage in his range sessions and just watching faces drop.

Pushing the apex from first swing!

IMO..A fitting should be broke down into 6 categories. Putting, short game, long irons, short irons, fairway woods/hybrids, and driver. I don’t think it’s fair to fit people according to their handicap. You can have a 20 handicap player who is absolutely deadly with their irons, but terrible with the driver, but excellent with putting and terrible with wedges. Therefore, they should be fit according to how they strike each individual club. Which means he could have a very forgiving driver, but be playing with a set of bladed irons, cavity back wedges, blade putter. Just saying.

I think this was a product of sole design. He is relatively steep given his swing speed so the higher bounce of the apex pro made for better turf interaction compared to the lower bounce titleist.

I own the p790s and I’m astonished with there performance I hit shots off the toe and there still down the center with great grouping I love these clubs Taylor made you should allow me to test clubs and I can give my honest opinions

Pros are using mixed sets now , forged blades and cavity backed in the bag at the same time.

At the beginning of the video you seemed a bit concerned about his club face being a little too toe down. Looks like that was evident throughout the video with all heads. I was just wondering why you didn't address this. The Apex Pros were clearly the head for him. Thanks for sharing. I love these kinds of videos. Cheers!

I have paid to be fitted 3 times, twice at Roger Dunn and once at PGA. Roger Dunn sells a ton of used clubs, and now I know why as their fitting was rushed and just wrong. PGA was pretty good but only offered 3 shafts...I'll go custom next time and pay the extra.

Interesting to see that with the apex his swing changed from "out to in " to "in to out" not every but specially in the last set

Great fitting. Good choice with the Apex pro. A question i have is, from the fitting video's ive seen (which is alot 😅😅) some fitters tend to find the best shaft first then test the heads with the same shaft. Any reason you test different shafts with different heads. Not a criticism just something I've noticed with your fitting method. 👍🏾

Amd please please please keep putting the swingweight in here... so crucial to feel that gets lost in videos all over the internet

Just a note. Have your editor keep the club setup on the screen in corner so we can follow the set up. Good Video

What is the background music playing? Love it and the in depth fitting.

This is great! I feel like--especially as I've added speed--that my Mizuno HMP are almost "too hot" if that's a thing? If i close the face even slightly too much, it pulls, spin drops, and it flies 30 yards further. For this fitting, and people who should maybe switch to more of a player's irons, is it mainly the head design, or is it the weaker lofts that lead to more spin and control?

Great service, as ever ⛳️🏌🏻

Choose a head that you like in terms of the feel and aesthetic features. Swing weight adjustments should be implemented after settling on the right shaft to zero in on direction of the ball flight. Clubs can be custom built to any balance. There is no need to take the shafts as it is.

Great video! I would like to purchase my next set of irons and they have to be fitted... what's your view on getting a fitting when not playing and practicing much at that moment in time? Worth waiting until the spring?

Really good video and great outcome for him! I was a little surprised the i230s didn’t work their way into the mix - what kinds of players have you seen them working well for?

Man ..when at around 1:30 -2:00 min mark were pushing it right ,i would love to have that consistent miss..i understand as a high handicapper because i dont play a lot and practice little is half the reason why i have all sorts of misses..but my point is during a round ill go from missing left ,left hook, to pushing right snap slice ,to thinning with either left or right movement to chunking it shank ….if i could keep just one fault ,like that , i could just adjust set up or any other small adjustment mid round and be very very happy with my round…….

Id love mizuno 223 in 3-5 iron and 221 in 6 pw to replace my mp30s as they are looking old.

I juat got my stix 5-pw. Hoping they are a good fit out of the box. Wish me luck lol

the odd face impact...would love to (chasing a theory) understand if you have LED lights, and if they are flicker free LED's the frequency they flicker (if not flicker free) can be off when the Quad is trying to see the ball, and as such, the visual at time of impact might be black, and yet the numbers still catch...and data accuracy is golden...just chasing theory...

Little surprised not to see anything in the Elevate line- even Elevate Tour or an AMT Red. No Modus 105 either as I recall. Also would have expected a little more forgiving head like the T200 or Mizuno 923 forged

Interesting

hi before i look at booking do you have long irons as well 4/5 iron in the heads?

Interesting,you liked the lower spinning apex 7 iron compared to the higher spinning Mizuno, 770 heads.Yes they were shorter but the spin I feel was much better.5000-5500 spin on a 7 iron is a Lil low.

I'm an 8 handicap, bought the Cleveland XL Halo hybrid irons last year, looking for more forgiveness. Big mistake. I lost 20 yards of distance on every single iron, and the feedback from them (presumably due to the hollow face?) is non-existent. For the modest tick up in forgiveness that has been massively offset by loss of accuracy and distance. I have since moved to a set of Srixon ZX5's, and couldn't be happier. I think most golfers (myself included) need to acknowledge that we're better than we think we are.

Ping i230 might be a good fit for him.

I'm going for a fitting and I'm hoping I land with T150s, Srixon X7/5 MK2 or Mizzino 243. I'm a 12 and want a set I can grow into

would have stuck with the T150. Seemed the fitter wanted him to take the Apex Pro 🤣

@epgolfstudios We're limited for golf shops and fitters in my city here in NZ. I stopped playing 6 years ago and was off +3, and im loookg at getting back into it. Im 44 and wouldn't say no to some extra distance if its available. Ive tried a ton of clubs and really like the Cobra Forged Tec X, even though with my mid to high 90's swing speed with a 7 iron they really shouldnt suit my game but every time i hit them theyre the most consistent. Im getting ball speeds of about 130mph, a peak height of 110-120ft, a descent angle of between 48 & 50⁰, and backspin of about 5200-5500. Do these numbers seem ok to you? Ive always hit the ball high amd struggled to knock spin off my irons so the lower spin appeals to me.

He seemed to prefer the T150, in my opinion, even though he was straighter with the Apex

two seconds after mentioning going upright he cooked one hard left. hard to truly find the perfect combination of shaft, loft, lie and so on when our swing changes from one minute to the next

This video just came randomly on my feed, and I think I’ll be booking a fitting with you next week! Out of interest, do you just have the 7i for fittings or do you have others? Just interested in potentially going for a combo set or something so would like to try a low iron? Hopefully see you soon!

if you're looking for a 34/35 degree 7 iron is there any issue going with an 8 iron at a 7 iron length? if you wanted to bring in more forgiving iron set options. so say a p790 8 iron at 37" instead of a p770 bent.

He should use shaft leen to git the face more in the center!

Problem I see with all these fittings is nobody ever seems to go back to the original clubs to compare after thoroughly warming up. His strikes got more consistent but it's hard to say if it's the different setup or because he was simply warmed up? I know it takes me at least a half hour before my swing settles down (if it ever settles down) - I'm similar handicap, but better irons wouldn't make any meaningful difference to my game...

You're a really good fitter. I didn't see you address his lie. He was hitting toe down on every shot and the mat is more forgiving than real turf. Would you adjust his le 1 or 2 degrees upright?

Why did you not go with the 223 that was producing spin in the 6600 range? Distance seemed consistent. Wouldn't it hold greens better and be more controlled?

You do a nice job of fitting, why the Callaway bias? He was clearly hitting the T150 better in the range setup. You kept pushing the apex and drove him to the apex pro. No biggie as long as the customer was happy, just noticed a clear bias and push

New subscriber man# thanks for this video. I'm a 12 handicap but it's coming down. Thinking of trying the srixon ZX5 or ZX7... Thoughts???

hi mate, potentially looking at getting a fit done soon ( Irons ) I want to go more into Graphite shafts i play of 15hcp, just wanted to know what sort of Iron head's i should be looking at? thinking Zx5'sMK11 / p790 Apex pro's ect.. any thought's? cheers dude

Can’t believe he didn’t buy the clubs from you after this!!!

Ross, I know he tried the Mizuno Pro 223. Was the more forgiving Pro 225 not available? I can’t wait to see the Pro 245 !!Also, forgiveness wise, do you think the Apex Pro is more like the T 200 than the T 150? Or right in between? Thanks, Joe

Going from a ping g425 to something like a T150/Apex is a big change. Can you say why you did not give him P790/T200 or similar to compare. He seemed to like the titleist but results from T150 were not great - maybe T200 would have worked well

Even with the 2* upright adjustment he was still 2-3 toe down at impact. Any thoughts on other adjustments to address that? Or is that not a concern? Thanks!

2:04 Should his head be swinging like this ? Does that change anything in the swing?

So why is the game improvement heads hurting? I have a set of JPX 921 hot metal pro and a set of JPX 923 Hot metal, amazingly I hit the pros better than the more forgiving Hot Metals. Any idea why a smaller less forgiving head would perform better for me?

What's up with the low strike location. Shouldn't it be on the red line vertical wise?

Titleist made fitting irons pretty easy. Have you tried T150's ? They work for 90% of golfers

Pushing those Apex pros lol

Question - You are using a lot of stiff shafts, as opposed to Regular on the irons, can you give me your logic on the choice?

This guy must be amazing off the tee or on the green to be a 10 handicap because judging by his 7 iron shot I’d say 10 is VERY generous

Good evening am I able to come have a driver fitting with you please happy to travel I currently have a titliest TSR 2 Driver. Play off 4.7

You think a 5.5 hard stepped would help a player like this with dispersion?

Why is the perfect hitting zone on the clubface so low? If I would hit a ball with those groves it would hurt my hands.

off camera, did he try the Apex, t200, or HotMetal HL (lower lofts = better hight and spin)?

would you say this was a typical session or did you go through more due to making a video? Just trying to set my expectations for a fitting. I must have missed it but I still don't know why game improvement irons can hurt you. Did you address this?

For T150, Titleist calls it the “faster players iron”