Bunching at the Top
Four, five and six iron all carrying within eight yards of each other. Extremely common and it means the top two clubs are doing no work at all.
Sessions / Irons
Static Measurements Get You in the Room. They Do Not Finish the Job.
Ninety minutes on length, lie, weight and set makeup, decided by where the ball actually comes off the face rather than by how tall you are.
The Core Idea
Lie Angle Is Measured Dynamically or Not at All
A wrist-to-floor measurement and a height chart give a starting lie angle. They cannot account for how much the shaft droops under load, how your hands work through impact, or whether you stand up slightly on longer clubs. Those things move effective lie by two or three degrees, and two degrees of lie on a seven iron is roughly six yards of left-right error at a hundred and fifty.
So we tape the sole, hit off a lie board, and read the mark. It takes eight swings and it is the single highest-value measurement in the whole session, particularly for golfers who have never had it done and are playing a stock standard lie.
Length Before Shaft
Playing length changes effective lie, swingweight and strike location all at once, so it gets settled before shaft selection rather than after. A quarter inch is a real change. Most golfers are within half an inch of correct at stock length, but the ones who are not are usually a long way out and have been compensating for years.
Weight Beats Flex Label
If you take one thing from this page: iron shaft weight matters more than the letter on the sticker. A hundred and twenty gram steel shaft and an eighty gram graphite shaft in the same nominal flex are different clubs to swing. Weight sets tempo and controls where you bottom out; flex mostly trims launch and feel around the edges.
Lightweight graphite in irons has a reputation problem in this part of the country that it no longer deserves. For golfers over about fifty-five playing through cold spring mornings, it is frequently the change that produces the biggest measurable improvement in the session.
Set Makeup Is Part of an Iron Fitting
Where your irons should start is a fitting question, not a purchasing default. If your four iron lands at a descent angle that will not hold a green, the correct answer is that your set starts at five and something else covers the gap. We measure that and write it on the sheet even when it means selling you fewer irons.
What Gets Decided
Lie anglePer club, taped
Playing lengthQuarter inch steps
Shaft weightGrams
Shaft flexBy frequency, not label
SwingweightHalf point tolerance
Grip sizeCore plus build-up
Set start4, 5 or 6 iron
GappingYards between clubs
Block Facts
Length90 minutes
Cost$185
BayBay 2, camera
BringYour current set
SeasonYear round
Bending your current set is a real option. Loft and lie work on a full set is forty-five dollars. If the session says your existing irons are two degrees flat, that is the recommendation and the total spend is the block plus forty-five.
Gapping
The Yardage Ladder, Written Out
Every iron session ends with a printed ladder from your longest iron to your shortest wedge, in carry yards, measured rather than assumed.
A Hole in the Middle
Usually created by a strong-lofted modern set meeting a wedge set bought separately. Twenty-two yard gaps in the scoring range are not rare.
The Seasonal Shift
Your April ladder and your July ladder are not the same ladder. We print both, using the measured temperature effect, so you know which club to take in the cold.
Honest Limits
When We Will Tell You to Wait
If your strike pattern is still moving around by more than about an inch across the face from swing to swing, an iron fitting will produce a recommendation built on noise. In that situation we say so, refund nothing because you still got the measurement, and suggest lessons first with a return visit later in the season.
That happens maybe one iron session in eight. Nobody enjoys hearing it, but building a set around an unstable strike pattern means paying twice: once for the wrong set and once for the right one eighteen months later.
- Impact tape does not lie. Ten taped swings tell us more about your fitting readiness than any conversation could.
- We keep your numbers. Come back after lessons and the second session is faster and cheaper because the baseline exists.
- Partial sets are fine. Replacing four irons rather than eight is a legitimate outcome and it is what we recommend more often than not.
Bring the Set You Have
Ninety minutes, a lie board, impact tape and a printed ladder at the end.