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Driver Gauge Fit Measured fitting since 2009 Book a Gauge Session

The Rack

Everything on the Wall Is There to Be Tested

We carry no house brand, hold no manufacturer quota, and earn nothing extra for steering you toward one label over another. What follows is simply what fits the widest range of golfers who walk through the door.

How the rack is chosen

Stocked on Coverage, Not on Margin

A fitting rack is only useful if it spans the range of behaviour a golfer might need. That means keeping shafts that are deliberately far apart in weight and bend profile, rather than six variations on the same middle-of-the-road tube from whichever brand offered the best terms.

Roughly a third of the rack turns over each year. Models that never win a comparison get pulled, regardless of how well they sell elsewhere, and the space goes to something that covers a gap.

Heads

Clubheads in Fitting Trim

Each of these is held as an adjustable or interchangeable fitting head so it can be tried against several shafts inside one session.

PingDrivers, irons, wedges
MizunoForged irons, blades
TitleistDrivers, irons, wedges
TaylorMadeDrivers, fairway woods
CallawayDrivers, hybrids
SrixonIrons, fairway woods
CobraDrivers, hybrids
ClevelandWedges
Shafts

Sixty-Plus Models, Spread Across the Range

Wood and iron shafts are held in multiple weights and flexes each, with raw stock on the bench for anything that needs a specific trim.

FujikuraWood shafts
MitsubishiWood shafts
Project XWood & iron
KBSIron & wedge
True TemperIron & wedge
NipponIron shafts
Graphite DesignWood shafts
UST MamiyaWood & iron
Grips

Sized to Your Hand, Not to the Box

Grip size shifts hand action and therefore face control, so it is measured rather than assumed. We take a hand length and a middle-finger measurement, then build up under the grip in half-wrap increments to land on the actual diameter that suits you.

Every core size from undersize to jumbo is on the shelf, in rubber, cord and hybrid textures. Alabama summers make cord a more popular answer here than it is further north.

Golf Pride Lamkin Winn SuperStroke Iomic
Bench consumables
  • FerrulesTurned to fit
  • Tip weights2–12 g
  • Lead tapeOn hand
  • Grip tapeDouble-sided
  • Shaft epoxy24 hr cure
A note on brand loyalty

We Do Not Mind What Is Written on the Sole

Plenty of clients arrive apologising for wanting to stay with a brand. There is nothing to apologise for. If a head you already trust performs within a percent of the best candidate on the rack, the confidence you have standing over it is worth more than that percent.

What we will not do is pretend a preference is a measurement. The sheet reports what the numbers said; the decision is yours, and it is perfectly rational for it to include how a club looks to you at address.

Try Anything on the Wall

Nothing on the rack is reserved for a particular tier of session. If it is relevant to the club on the bench, it gets hit.