Sessions / Irons
An Iron Set Is Fitted as a Set
Two hours, three points on the ladder, and a progression check that catches the club in the middle that has quietly stopped matching the ones around it. $215.
Fitting One Club and Extrapolating Is a Guess
The industry habit of fitting a 7-iron and applying the result to fourteen clubs exists because it is quick, not because it is right. The 4-iron and the pitching wedge in the same set ask different things of a golfer, and a specification that suits the middle can sit badly at both ends.
We measure at three points — a long iron, a middle iron and a short iron — because that is the minimum needed to see whether a specification holds across the ladder or only in the centre of it. Lie in particular tends to drift: a golfer who needs standard in the 7-iron frequently needs a degree upright in the 4-iron, and nobody discovers that by testing one club.
The second half of the session is progression. How the set looks and behaves as you step through it decides whether the middle irons feel like family or like strangers.
- Bay time2 hours
- Fee$215
- Points measured3
- Heads compared3–5
- Shafts screened4–6
- Lie board workIncluded
- Loft ladder mappedFull set
Six Variables, All of Them Recorded
Lie Angle
Measured on a board with tape on the sole, at three points in the set. Guessing lie from ball flight is unreliable because a golfer compensates within two swings of noticing a miss.
Length
Set from wrist-to-floor and posture rather than height alone. Two golfers of the same height routinely need lengths half an inch apart.
Shaft Weight & Profile
Screened in alternating blocks. The goal is a consistent strike, not a headline carry number from the long iron.
Frequency Slope
How evenly stiffness steps from club to club. A set that jumps unevenly produces one iron that always feels wrong and nobody can explain why.
Progression
Offset, topline thickness and leading-edge position as they change through the set. This is what decides whether the 6-iron inspires the same confidence as the 9.
Loft Ladder
Every gap in the set measured in yards, not in stamped degrees. Modern lofts vary enough between makers that the number on the sole means little on its own.
Mixing Models Across the Ladder
There is no rule saying a set has to come from one box. Plenty of golfers are better served by a more forgiving long iron and a more compact short iron, and a well-blended set is one of the more satisfying things to specify.
The catch is that progression and frequency slope have to be managed deliberately, or the transition club becomes the one that never behaves. We check the crossover point specifically, and if the blend cannot be made to step smoothly we will say so rather than build it anyway.
- Offset step at crossover≤ 0.5 mm
- Topline stepVisually matched
- Frequency step3–5 cpm
- Swing weight stepConsistent
- Loft gap at crossoverWithin ladder
Have the Set You Own Measured First
Forged irons move. A season of firm summer ground, a few hundred range-mat strikes and a couple of heads bent for lie will pull a set out of specification by a degree or more, and the golfer experiences that as their swing going bad.
A loft and lie re-check across the whole set costs $55 and takes an afternoon. About one client a week arrives ready to spend two thousand dollars and leaves having spent fifty-five, which is not good for our margins and is exactly what the studio is for.
Bring the Whole Set
Including the wedges. The ladder does not end at the pitching wedge and neither does the measurement.