We Order It In For A Retest
Common with specialty shafts. You come back for a short second visit at no charge, hit the real thing, and only then decide. Usually seven to ten days.
Pittsburgh, PA · Open since 2015
We buy components the same way a joiner buys timber: from whoever makes the right thing for the job, at trade price, with no arrangement that would make us prefer one supplier over another. Nothing in this room is here because somebody paid for the shelf space.
Plenty of good fitting rooms are affiliated with a manufacturer, and plenty of good fitters work inside them. The problem is not dishonesty. It is that an affiliated room can only recommend what it can order, and the golfer never sees the boundary of that catalogue. When the right answer sits outside it, the room quietly recommends the nearest thing inside it instead.
Our rack has heads from most of the major manufacturers, shafts from the large houses and from two smaller makers whose profiles are hard to get elsewhere, and grips in every diameter and texture we can reasonably keep in stock. If your sitting concludes that the correct head is one we would have to order in specially, that is what goes on the card.
Current and one-generation-back models from the large manufacturers, in the loft range that actually matters here, plus a handful of low-spin and high-launch outliers that solve specific problems. Adjustable hosels are useful for testing and we use them heavily during a sitting.
Players cavities, hollow-body long irons, forged blades, and two game-improvement families with genuinely different sole geometry. We stock test heads in 6-iron and 8-iron, because those two tell us almost everything about how a family will behave through a set.
The area we invest in most, because grind matters more here than golfers expect. We keep multiple sole options in the same loft so you can hit them back to back on both soft and firm panels rather than reading a diagram.
Blades, mid-mallets, and mallets across a wide balance range, plus adjustable-length test shafts so length can be resolved before a head is chosen. We also stock several counterbalance weights, which fix more stroke complaints than any head change.
Around a hundred and forty fitting shafts on the wall, sorted by measured frequency rather than by printed flex. Wood shafts in every weight band from the mid fifties up; iron shafts in steel and graphite; and a small collection of discontinued profiles that still solve problems nothing current solves as well.
Rubber, cord, hybrid, and wrap in undersize through jumbo, plus the tape and build-up materials to put any of them at any diameter. Grip choice is measured against hand size and wrist action during the sitting, then recorded on the card as a wrap count so a rebuild years later is identical.
Nobody can rack every component made. When a sitting lands on something we do not hold, one of three things happens, and we say which one before you leave.
Common with specialty shafts. You come back for a short second visit at no charge, hit the real thing, and only then decide. Usually seven to ten days.
Where a shaft profile is close enough on the analyser that the difference is inside our own measurement noise, we say so and test the substitute honestly.
Rare, but it happens with certain custom grinds and one or two direct-to-consumer brands. We will name who does it properly and hand you the spec card to take with you.
Around a third of the sittings we run end with the golfer keeping the heads they walked in with. Bending irons two degrees flat, replacing four shafts, and rebuilding the grips is frequently a better outcome than a new set, and it costs a fraction of one.
We are equally happy to work with heads you sourced yourself, second-hand or new, provided the hosels are sound and the heads are genuine. Bring them in and they go on the bench with everything else.