Including the Ones Where We Sold Nothing

I came in for a driver and left with a three wood bent one degree flat and no new driver at all. Ross showed me the numbers and said the driver was already right. That cost me forty-five dollars and fixed the club I actually hit off the deck.

My long irons were fine indoors and useless in October. Priya put a hybrid next to the four iron in the same session and the descent angle difference explained ten years of frustration in about four minutes. I carry two hybrids now and I have not missed the irons once.

The wind conversation is what sold me. Every other place I have been fits you on a calm screen and calls it done. These guys asked which direction the holes I struggle on run, then built the driver around holding a line into a left-to-right breeze.

Toby regripped nine clubs while I waited and pointed out that two of my wedges had almost no groove left. He did not try to sell me wedges, he just told me. I bought them from him three weeks later anyway because that is how you earn it.

I had been playing a stiff shaft since college because that is what you do. Turns out my tempo has slowed down considerably at fifty-eight. Went a full flex softer and forty grams lighter and gained fourteen yards of carry without swinging harder.

Booked the whole bag day mostly out of curiosity. The gapping page they printed showed a thirty-one yard hole between my four hybrid and my five iron that I had been living with for years. One club fixed it. One.

The honest part was them telling me my strike pattern was still moving around too much to justify a new iron set, and that I should take lessons first and come back in the fall. I did. Came back in September and the fitting took half the time.

My son grew four inches in a year and his clubs were suddenly comically short. Danielle sorted the whole set in forty-five minutes and told us not to bother re-fitting again until next spring. Refreshing to be told to come back later rather than sooner.

What I appreciated was hitting the fairway wood on actual grass. Every three wood I have ever tried felt great on a mat and then dug on the first tight lie in August. Priya had me on the tee out back and we ruled two heads out in ten minutes.