 Welcome back to part two of what has been a very interesting process indeed where we've seen 15 handicapper Steve Bauer go through a custom fit process with his driver and irons and to be quite honest with you we've seen some significant gains but now he's got a very interesting part of the bag that still needs filling. Yeah it's fair to say we did make some significant gains both in the performance of his irons and definitely in terms of distance with driver but now we move to an area of the bag which is extremely difficult to fill in my opinion those voids between the longest iron in the bag and your driver well it gets a little bit complicated the decisions to be made what type of club water you're looking for how do you fill those gaps so this is going to be a tough one and I'll be very interested in watch trust me. Right okay Steve we've had I think fair to say a very successful part one of this video which was focused on irons and driver scene performance gains in both and then we moved into the longer end of the bag so it's gaping first of all we ended up as a reminder the longest iron in the bag was a five iron. Yeah I just want to talk about that first of all why were you comfortable with with sticking with a five because I know there was an option of maybe stopping at six but you carried on with your five. Yeah absolutely because of the extra loft that I got that I was really after and it and it took it took a few goes as you saw but I was reluctant to lose the five iron it's always been in my head one of my favorite clubs yeah um so I didn't really want to sway away yeah from having that option I've never really been able to hit my four as well so I was happy to lose that but my five iron took the heartstrings really and with that extra loft Andy I wanted to keep that. Yeah it still launched the ball high and I think well I think that's important confidence is huge no matter what sometimes the numbers are saying as well but I think there's there's also a bit of flexibility so in terms of hybrid or fairway wood right now with your current setup where where'd you lean towards you've got any more confidence in either or you don't like both what particularly like both no that's a that's naughty because he's played with me so many times that is an area I really struggle with and particularly long par fours trying to reach in two three wood my confidence went years ago I don't have a five wood so I was definitely leaning towards a hybrid but even that's probably 60 40 success in my in my head but I'm going in with an open mind I might I might be able to hit some fairway woods today I don't know but probably if you push me hybrid would be the way I would probably going to go well be interesting to see because one of the things I think that has changed significantly over perhaps last couple of years I think manufacturers have focused their attentions on hybrids and fairway woods fairway woods and I think they've I think they've changed considerably so what I'm interested in this as to whether or not Callaway or something in their range that you can start to feel really comfortable with and would aid you in that part of the game which for all of us is very tough the longer that club gets the harder the game becomes so let's get over hit some golf balls and see where we end up fairway wood or hybrid it was just a waste of a shot to the point where I didn't even use to put it in my bag so and I still might not I've got an open mind so let's see how we go for a couple here now all that's a bit left that's probably better than I've hit in years and years just on the first one so with Steve clearly impressed with the performance of the paradigm three wood he carried on to hit a few more shots and collect some data but Ollie had a suggestion to make right Steve I have an option for as that's great that's really good by the way I wasn't I didn't have big big expectations and that probably exceeded them the nice thing is right so what we can do here is because they were a little bit low and left I can change the hosel setting to add a couple of degrees okay and put it on a draw setting right so hosel into draw so we're going hosel because I mean I like that because the gapping wise see if you have a look here so you're looking for about 20 yards of difference carry slash total so you're the fitted driver we've got 190 yeah so we want to have this carrying kind of 170 ish hopefully so it's a great it's a it's a great start see the hosel setting see if this might tick the box for you very interesting this really interesting oh my word I think going five wood with that being a little bit shorter would definitely help with the control so that trend should continue I think the interesting thing again is if we loft up a little bit let's see what we get love it Ollie it's fascinating and and the nice thing is is that because of this adjustability you can tweak it you know if you change things so if you have a few lessons change how you deliver the club then all of a sudden all right well I can move the hosel setting back so you're not setting stone and despite the changes with the three wood in terms of increase in loft it was decided the five order 18 degrees would be the best option and you'll see an increase in carry distance land angle and launch angle also improves so with a five wood the decision is to the next club in the bag after driver the question now remains as to where do we go next and that all started with a five hybrid from the Callaway paradigm range and it's fair to say that Steve was impressed from the get go with this one and those numbers collected were almost perfect apart from perhaps that descent angle it's one of the things that people don't it's you know it's the three d's right distance dispersion descent descend never really gets talk about it and with an increase of two degrees we found the perfect club to fill that void but it just feels so good so yes I think 24 I don't mind the five wood either I think you probably would go five wood and the 24 plus two right okay so another interesting afternoon session in in the bay at Archerfield links and Callaway's performance centre meant that you've ended up with a really interesting top end of the bag Steve and I think the first thing to point out was it's you very much went into this with no preconceived ideas and I think what you've ended up getting fit for in this top end of the bag is probably testament to that because some of these clubs I don't think you would have chosen before you arrive but let's start off with the longest nine in a bag we should point out that we decided would be the five iron but that even that was a debate at the end is a debate because it's a work back from where we ended up so let's go from driver and we tried or you tried rather three wood first of all what were your thoughts on the three wood well first of all what I'd like to say is I knew the the biggest challenge in the bag would be the irons because I've always played golf with Callaway irons yeah I love Callaway irons so I was going from a decent Callaway iron to obviously a custom fit top of the range brilliant feel iron now my woods is more weaker part of my bag and that's an area where I really felt this custom fit fingers cross can benefit my game so I went in with an open mind I didn't like three wood I've never really had a nice three wood I hit a three wood um as you saw with Ollie and he tried to add an elevation as well but didn't really feel that that was that was the club no it's still a flatter ball flight we've done loads on the channel in recent years where personally I took three without the bag I know a lot of golfers have we struggle as average golfers unless you're generating a real high club head speed it's difficult to pick it up off the turf and get a decent ball flight it's still quite flat wasn't it yeah um Ollie tried increasing loft um but ultimately we sort of decided you decided between a pair of you that maybe the sort of five wood was the first club you had put in the bag from driver so first of all it made a good choice in terms of the gapping so you got whatever we ended up with in terms of the driver carry we had a next club in the bag five wood which was sitting nicely behind the driver yeah which was 18 degrees anyway so that was a that was a good starting point good perfection then we were really toying with the idea of sort of seven wood was an option hybrid you've had in the bag in the past what would have been your previous experience of the hybrids that you used I think I said or I think I said to Ollie of probably 60 40 positivity yeah but again um the make and the measure wasn't to me so it was a little bit hit and miss some days I'd have confidence other days I'd hit a few bad ones and it'd go away yeah for the rest of the round and then I used the expression say say we're playing a 440 you know par 4 and I've driven it 210 yards and I've got 230 to go I didn't have a hybrid my five iron wouldn't carry I'm thinking well I can't get in the green either now the the hybrid that I hit with with Ollie was was incredible that was another really love at first sight club I have to say um I almost I mean this in many ways par when you move from the driver became the star of the show because you hit it straight out the block you couldn't believe it could you that I was a bit surprised it was really good because you said well one of the things that's worth mentioning at this point is you say 60 40 in terms of your success rate with hybrid or your opinion on hybrids I think people's opinion on hybrids in the past has gotten a little bit negative everyone's really worried about hitting the left shot with a closed face hybrid and I think there's been a big change in the release of hybrids from all the brands in in the last year or two and I think they're a far different club and what paradigm has done a callaway I've done with the paradigm rather it's a slightly larger head profile it's almost like a mix between it like a mini fairway wood and you know personally I think it's a real nice sit behind the ball but what surprised me like you said was just how well you hit it because first of all it was a ball flight yes and that was significantly different because they were able to adjust yeah and that's that's something so straight away a 24 degree hybrid added two degrees and the ball flight changed the carry didn't significantly change and it was just again sat perfectly in the gap but it was I don't think I've ever seen you pick up a club where you just continually hit it now on the bottom same sort of landing area time after time and this goes back to then the sort of confidence element that you have and reaching into the bag you go for three wood well that's a little bit you know it and miss I've got a nice hybrid here that I'm reliant on same with your five wood so that was a real interesting mix as well so you've ended up really where the gap in was driver five wood 26 degree hybrid and then into the five iron and that's interesting because normally you would say you look at a bag and you'd go okay five iron uh three hybrid five wood three wood driver that's the kind of natural bag makeup that everybody assumes that you need because that fits the bill you're just shown there by doing a custom fit process a lot of those clubs weren't needed because you had your gap in with just three clubs from five iron into your driver the gaps were covered perfectly yeah and Ollie felt if I'd put a three wood in it might only come out once twice around on average and I'd be I'd be using losing a club sorry from from the bag for for no real advantage really well and again from positive perspective the ability to put an extra wedge in the bag which we've already talked about so it's just a real interesting process yet again um wouldn't have found those things out wouldn't have recognised those carry distance and those gaps unless you went through this process absolutely 100 so the message is and I'll ask you the question again for the top end of the bag and it's how you know I've sort of asked you this in the previous video thought process on you know gaping that top end well like you said there's a stigma isn't there there's a tradition you've got to have a driver you've got to have a three wood you've got to you've you know even got to have a four iron I mean that you know over the years I've carried a four iron sometimes I'll take my bag out and why have I got my four iron in I never hit it I haven't not confident enough to hit it you know me I like my five iron so um yeah without a custom fit without that guidance without that feel you won't find them those things you won't find those things out and it just proves that that actually is is is nonsense now because you do not need or utilize all those clips no and I think that again brands as in this case in Callaway there's such a huge offering and a diversity at that top end of the bag to pick clubs that you really suit where that's on the eye where that's feel where that's length of shaft in terms of control you've got to go through this process and and get this done it's certainly in my opinion going to help you game the fear I have it help Steve's game too much and he ends up taking a ten off me in the weeks ahead and do that by the way but we will that's us done fantastic experience for me to watch and I think for Steve to take part in thanks for your time now thoroughly enjoyed it thank you and in the weeks ahead we'll be doing some follow-up videos that see in reality out on the fairways if the custom fit did its job and if they help Steve to play some better golf fingers crossed right as ever thank you for watching and likely it is I'll see you all tomorrow night