Custom fitting golf clubs involves several easy measurements and a quick self-assessment of your game. This method is simple, accurate, and effective. To custom fit your golf clubs, you will need to know the following:

• Your gender
• Your height in your stockings or socks
• The distance from your wrist to the floor with your shoes off
• Your age
• Your handicap or skill level
• How fast you swing a golf club
• What club you use at the 150 yard marker

Gender is used to put you into the correct fitting scale. Your height and the distance in inches from your wrist to the floor are used together to determine the length of golf club that is appropriate for you. The starting point for club length can vary up to 3 1/2" ranging from ladies to mens plus 1 1/2". Your age, handicap, self-assessed skill level, estimated golf swing speed and club you use at the 150 yard marker are all combined to determined the shaft flex that is appropriate for you.
PinemeadowGolf.com has built an automated Custom Fitting Wizard that collects this information and quickly provides you with your custom fitting result.

CLUB LENGTH & FLEX

Length is simply how long the golf club is as measured from the butt end of the grip down the back side of the club down to where the club meets the ground. A longer golf club will hit further given the same swing speed, so length can be a good thing. However, since the swing arc is longer, it often is also harder to keep under control, so length can be a bad thing. All things being equal, most golfers will opt for longer length to the sacrifice of greater control.
The standard length of a steel shafted Driver for a man is 43 inches. Graphite shafted drivers are manufactured 1 inch longer than steel shafted clubs because graphite shafts weigh less than steel shafts allowing us to produce a longer club with the same swing weight.

Flex is the torsional stiffness of the golf club, which is provided by the type of golf club shaft that is used. Generally, stiffer shafts are better for stronger hitting golfers. Common shaft flexes are Men's Regular, Stiff, Extra Stiff, Senior, and Ladies. Interestingly, graphite shaft flex terminology uses Firm and Extra Firm instead of Stiff, we don't know why, they are just the words the golf industry uses.
The proper flex of a golf club is a function of your strength and golfing skills. We provide a Custom Fitting Wizard that determines the correct flex for you in just two simple steps. Determining the correct flex is most important for your Woods and longer Irons. Short irons, wedges and putters are not impacted very much by the different flexes as the differences between flexes becomes very small in the shorter clubs.
Often associated with flex, is "kick-point" — especially with graphite shafts. Less experienced golfers generally benefit from lower kick-point shafts, which help get the ball up in the air. Better golfers tend to favor higher kick points.

LOFT & LIE ADJUSTMENTS

Some people receive advice that they require a certain loft or lie adjustment. We have never understood loft adjustments since they merely change the loft of the club. We recommend buying golf clubs with the loft you seek and avoid custom loft adjustments. Bending the loft of an iron weakens the hardened metal and can lead to future metal fatigue. If the loft of your 5 iron is too strong, use a 6 iron. If it is too weak, use a 4 iron.
Lie adjustment also requires bending the hardened metal in which an iron is cast. We do not think this is a good practice and also advise against it. It is particularly dangerous in 17-4ph metal irons. Never lie adjust a club more than 2 degrees.

Interestingly, we have only seen the experts recommend loft and lie adjustments in irons, not woods. Since woods are longer than irons, the argument for any adjustment should be greater for woods than irons. But no one recommends adjusting woods.