Advice: Custom fit existing golf clubs

lawred2

Hi,

I have an existing set of forged Mizuno irons and a couple of Vokey wedges.. None of which have been custom fit.

Is it possible to have them custom fit for me?

Has anyone any personal experience of retrofitting their existing irons? With whom (if that's allowed)

Cheers in advance

TheDoc

I think a big issue with getting your irons custom fit after market is the extortionate price of iron shafts. In most cases, your actually better of selling your existing set, and buying them again custom fit, as it works out cheaper.

I bought my Taylor Made Irons STUPIDLY OEM, and went for fitting afterwards down the line. I copped that the shafts were Regular flex, and maybe I needed something stiffer. I do in fact need a stiffer shaft in my irons, however the quote was €700+ at the time of the fitting.

The viable option was me to sell my irons, get about €300 quid for them, and then going to buy them new with free fitting, for €599.

When I was looking at this last year, it was working out €70 per shaft excluding costs for the fitting itself.

lawred2

Alright Doc..

I think my shaft flex is fine but I think they could be a fraction long... I have read that small reductions in shaft length (oooh matron) aren't necessarily that costly nor that impactful..

I'd like to go somewhere as impartial as possible where I'm not going to get the big sell..

mike12

Have you gone for a fitting and realised the irons are not the right lie, length or stiffness. if you look around on adverts it is possiable to pick up a full set of shafts for around €100 or so but you would be lucky to find the ones you would need. By the time you pay a pro to fit them and maybe regrip them you could be well over €200 total.

Go get a fitting see what you need then prob the best option is to sell your own and replace them with another second hand set with the correct shaft. Golfbidder is a good place to look

mike12

lawred2 wrote: »

Alright Doc..

I think my shaft flex is fine but I think they could be a fraction long... I have read that small reductions in shaft length (oooh matron) aren't necessarily that costly nor that impactful..

I'd like to go somewhere as impartial as possible where I'm not going to get the big sell..

If that's all you need then almost any club pro will do it. Krnishna in the ward/hollywood lakes did this for a mate. If you get him to do the regripping i think the cost of the reducing the length was very little.

newport2

lawred2 wrote: »

Hi,

I have an existing set of forged Mizuno irons and a couple of Vokey wedges.. None of which have been custom fit.

Is it possible to have them custom fit for me?

Has anyone any personal experience of retrofitting their existing irons? With whom (if that's allowed)

Cheers in advance

Shaft length can be adjusted easy enough without replacing it, as can the loft and lie of the Mizunos. The Volkey's are cast though I think, so you can't move the heads of them much.

I had a previous set of Mizuno's refitted a few years ago, they worked out fine. Pro-fit Golf did them, I think they're gone now though.

ShivasIrons

newport2 wrote: »

Shaft length can be adjusted easy enough without replacing it, as can the loft and lie of the Mizunos. The Volkey's are cast though I think, so you can't move the heads of them much.

I had a previous set of Mizuno's refitted a few years ago, they worked out fine. Pro-fit Golf did them, I think they're gone now though.

Vokeys can be easily moved for loft and lie as well.

newport2

ShivasIrons wrote: »

Vokeys can be easily moved for loft and lie as well.

Ok, I stand corrected so. (I got mine moved about 1 degree in loft and 1.5 in the lie, but the custom fitter said they were in danger of breaking if he adjusted them much more, because they were cast and not forged.)

PARlance

ShivasIrons wrote: »

Vokeys can be easily moved for loft and lie as well.

Thanks for that, might save me a few quid.

Any constraints to how much they can be adjusted?
Would 2* (48->50) be pushing it?

newport2

PARlance wrote: »

Thanks for that, might save me a few quid.

Any constraints to how much they can be adjusted?
Would 2* (48->50) be pushing it?

Got this from the Titleist web-site

"This depends on what finish the wedges are. If they happen to be Oil Can wedges, there is a tolerance of +/-4*. If they are Tour Chrome (satin) or Black Nickel, then there is a tolerance of +/-2*. "

http://www.titleist.com/teamtitleist/team-titleist/f/7/t/13886.aspx

So you should be ok for 48->50 either way!

Montgolfier

TheDoc wrote: »

I think a big issue with getting your irons custom fit after market is the extortionate price of iron shafts. In most cases, your actually better of selling your existing set, and buying them again custom fit, as it works out cheaper.

I bought my Taylor Made Irons STUPIDLY OEM, and went for fitting afterwards down the line. I copped that the shafts were Regular flex, and maybe I needed something stiffer. I do in fact need a stiffer shaft in my irons, however the quote was €700+ at the time of the fitting.

The viable option was me to sell my irons, get about €300 quid for them, and then going to buy them new with free fitting, for €599.

When I was looking at this last year, it was working out €70 per shaft excluding costs for the fitting itself.

I use a 3/8" hand reamer to make the hosel parallel and then buy .370" shafts from gamola golf or Nordic golf. Simples

lawred2

Thanks for all the advice...

I'm going to go along to a custom fitter (well known) with an open mind and see where it takes me..

lawred2

Montgolfier wrote: »

I use a 3/8" hand reamer to make the hosel parallel and then buy .370" shafts from gamola golf or Nordic golf. Simples

going to remember those

thanks