Pittsburgh, PA · Open since 2015
Most driver demos are a search for a big number. Ours is a search for a narrower gap between your best strike and your ordinary one, because the ordinary one is what shows up on fourteen of your sixteen tee shots. About 100 minutes, one golfer on the floor, with Roland running most of them.
A driver that produces one gorgeous strike out of fourteen has told you what happens when everything lines up. It has told you nothing about the other thirteen, and a round of golf is made almost entirely out of the other thirteen.
So the sitting opens on your own driver, untouched, with face tape on and the monitor recording every number for fourteen swings. From that we compute keep rate — your median ball speed measured against your best — and that single figure becomes the thing every later change is judged against. A shaft or head change that raises the median and tightens the spread is doing real work. A change that only raises the peak is decoration.
Why we judge everything by keep rate →Comes first because it moves your strike pattern more than any head or shaft change we make afterward. Most golfers on this floor end up half an inch to an inch shorter than the driver they arrived with, and the census usually explains why within a dozen swings.
Set against your measured attack angle, not against a number printed on the sole. A negative attack angle asks for more static loft than most stock builds carry, and adjustable hosels let us dial that in half a degree at a time during the sitting itself.
Read on the frequency analyser rather than off the letter printed on the shaft. Weight comes first, because a golfer who cannot locate the clubhead at the top of the swing is losing more keep rate than any flex mismatch will cost him.
The full minute-by-minute version, including the second-season check we run against the opposite turf condition, is on the fitting process page.
A keep rate problem almost every time. The good ones prove the club can perform; the census tells us where the spread is actually coming from, which is usually length or head mass rather than the shaft everyone suspects first.
Often a shaft that has softened with age, a swingweight that drifted after a grip change nobody logged, or simply a golfer whose transition has slowed and whose driver never caught up with it.
The baseline comes from what is currently in your bag, so there is nothing to prepare beyond bringing it and the shoes you actually play in. If the right answer turns out to be the driver you walked in with, adjusted rather than replaced, that is what goes on the card.