 Now as you know I've been lucky enough to be custom fit on numerous occasions over the last few years but just lately I've wondered if, in fact, I am doing it all wrong. You see one significant thing of custom fit is swing speed, which as we know will play a huge part in shaft choice which is ultimately a major part of the custom fit process. In fact it's often referred to as the club's engine. I'm talking of engines, how do you gauge your car's performance? Is it based on when it's doing 100 mile an hour or perhaps a more realistic 70 mile an hour? So here's my problem, each time I get custom fit I literally try and hit the ball at full tilt, which is perhaps not what I do when I get out on the fairway, much like I don't drive my car very often at 100 mile an hour. So in today's video it is very very simple, I'm going to get custom fit again but this time I'm going to try and swing my club like I do out there on the fairways and hopefully see a difference in the results in terms of my own performance and perhaps what I end up with in terms of shaft choice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Mr. Soul, how are we doing? Good to see you again. How are you? You alright? Good, yeah. I'm riding more like you're in normal swing speed too, you're not jumping at it as much. You try that again? Of course. Good, it's probably in a row. Straight balls. There you go. Forty-five feet off. Yeah, I think that's a good sign. I like the ball flight. Right, so just before I arrived at the range I explained to my viewers what I'm looking to try and do in this year's custom fit and that is basically, I feel as though it's two things really, I think I've maybe slowed a little in terms of my swing speed over the last year or so, maybe getting a little older and the second thing is and I think maybe a lot of people make the mistake is that when you go to a custom fit, particularly with driver, I think everyone's sort of chasing a number trying to impress the custom fit and look, this is how far I can hit the ball. Yeah, absolutely. Swinging the first thing they do is run over and look at their numbers, see how fast their swing speed was or how far it went. So I want to try and not do that and replicate my sort of on-course swing because like I said, I think and it would always be an interesting video again really is to see what your numbers are when you've got a wide open range and then what your swing speed is stood on a T-box where you've got out of bounds and trees and all the rest of it because it might be a bit different. So if you can bear that in mind and help me out in that respect in terms of the shaft and see where we go. Absolutely, based on what we did last year, we'll definitely try some things that will incorporate to what you're talking about. Perfect. Yeah. What are we doing? Go and drive it, yeah? Yes, we're going to start on the AV blue. OK. AV. So the AV is going to be very, very similar weight wise to that DM on we did last year. OK. And then we'll go into a couple of the lighter ones and yes, we get OK. You want to do a couple more? Just kind of get a feel. I feel like the white ones, you just start to get out of control. Absolutely. It gets to be too white. Yeah. Right, so a quick update for you as to where we're at right now is I've probably doing exactly what I didn't want to do and what I said I was trying not to and that swing too fast. The numbers in terms of clubbed speed at the moment is kind of I'm swinging around 90 to 100 mile an hour. That's way too quick for me. Nothing like what I think I swing it like out on the course. So time for a quick drink and hopefully just slow things down because clearly I'm doing exactly what I hope not. And that's trying to hit it as far as I possibly can. Now here's back to the VR shaft, the one that's worked pretty well. We're just going to change the head now. So this is going to be the 0, 3, 11 heads opposed to the XF. The XF is going to drain a little more spin, a little more draw by his head, which isn't bad for you. We didn't see it didn't overspin on us at all. I just wanted to see what would happen now with this when we do hit that little cut, if it can keep it sub 25. OK. Oh, this swing is better. Oh, yeah. Big bounce, too. I mean. Yes, not bad ball. Not bad ball at all. I think that's like where you just said about hitting down it. I basically changed the kind of what happens. Yeah, very good. How do you feel? That was much more like I made a conscious decision. I'll change rather to hit it very much on the swing. It's more like your normal swing speed, too. You're not jumping at it as much. You try that again. Of course. I'm going to tweak it just another time or two here as well. She has different balls, them, aren't they? It's a change. You know, I think it's a change of what I made really from that common you made, I think. Oh, look at that. That's sweet. Longest carry of the day now. Yeah, that's the longest ball overall. Yeah. Right, so a bit of an update on where we're at. Swing slowed down a little bit, which is good to see. Yeah, less in control. Swing tip from yourself as well, which has sort of changed. I tried to make a change in sort of the angle of attack, which I think changed things as well. But then where we were at in terms of... Last year I was in sort of a diamond of stiff, 60-gram-ish, was it? In the 60-gram, yes. We've gone to something now a little bit. So very similar in weight. So that's one of the things I want to explain is just because it has a 6-N-N-S on it doesn't mean every 6-N-N-S is going to be one and the same. The kick points change. Where the weights distribute throughout the shaft changes. But the biggest thing is, like we said, that kick point and then that weight distribution. So even though they're both in the 60-gram, this one was a little easier for you to square up and a little softer down from the bottom section. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. So where the demon's going to be a little stiffer down at that tip section compared to what we ended up today and how we were hitting it. And I think it said to your off-camera was that I felt so I was kind of working hard with the diamond, whereas, again, that's just the club edge coming through. Yes. A little bit easier. Is that fair? Exactly. With the new VR. With the new one. It is turning, it is getting through it a little bit easier without you having to work and swing that 100-mile power swing. You can swing that 96-97 and it still catches up and squares up for you. So numbers, I'm not going to go all into data today, but basically in terms of numbers there, we're sort of 96 mile an hour, getting that 235, 240 odd was the longest ball, wasn't it? Carry, yeah. Carry, spin number keeping in with that sort of two and a half thousand revs. So all again, my optimum numbers. But for me, the key is, like, I like to feel comfortable with the shaft as well in terms of the whole swinging. I'm not grafting on it. Do you know what I mean? I think that was the big thing with the... What is the shaft that we've got in look? And I'm really... Graphite design, VR. So the way you were loading it and unloading it is what you're explaining. It loaded and unloaded easier for you than the previous shaft that we got into last year. Right. We're moving in the right direction anyway. Things are going good so far. What are we on to next? We're going to do the fairway wood. So we're going to jump right into something similar in that 65 realm and try our three wood and talk about it from there. I'm going in 10 side blue, which is a shaft that I just tried in. I don't think we filmed the hybrid bit, but it was really successful in terms of the hybrid. So hopefully that carries on into the fairway wood. Right, okay. So my round of golf was finished with these nine holes. I'm back with Mike who was my custom fitter yesterday. And what was great really was to go out the following day with the guy who just fit here. And you can have a look at kind of where we ended up in terms of shaft wise, in terms of the bag set up. And maybe first of all, what did you think in terms of what we've ended up with? I felt like the way we had it set up from yesterday was a really good set up for you, especially how we saw it in the weather today and the cold and how you hit them. Key note was that driver. I mean, the driver had very little spin on it from our experience today, good bouncing bounce forward, getting a lot of roll out of it and things like that too. The shaft in my iron remained the same as last year, but we changed things up, didn't we, in terms of hybrids and then into the driver. So the hybrid shaft was, and the fairway was the tensile blue. Tensile blue, yeah. So for those ones, we were looking to get a little bit higher launch, a little bit more spin to keep it in the air longer. And number one was making sure the descent angle was nice and high, because those ones you're gonna hit into a green. Where we did end up in the driver a little heavier than you were anticipating, but it all came down to the numbers and what worked the best and keeping that spin rate controlled and a little bit lower to get that bounce forward that we were talking about. But by the same token, whilst the weight was the same, again, Mike mentioned this yesterday, weight of shaft was the same. Kick point was a bit different. And I just think that just helped me a little bit. Didn't have to work too hard. So I think we got a nice balance between the whole setup and then that bag setup for me. The first time I've done it, I've mentioned a lot on the channel about sort of quitting on the long irons and swapping out into hybrids. But for the first time for me personally, I stopped at a six iron, then I went to five hybrid, four hybrid, and then into five wood. And I've got to say, out on the course, we kind of covered all yardages. I had sort of, you know, could play a variety of shots, a lot of flexibility within that bag setup as well. So I like that as well. Absolutely. I mean, everything from the fitting yesterday was 10, 12 or so longer than each other. So it filled every gap all the way up to the driver. I've never ever played golf with the Kusseloff Fetter. And I think, like I said, it was nice for both of us maybe that kind of, you know, what we did yesterday. Yeah, just, you know, you never know if there is a couple of little tweaks we might need to make. Cause like you said, the swing does change on the golf course to the driving range for most people. But like you said yesterday, you did a really good job of keeping your on course swing or trying to keep your on swing throughout the entire fitting. And that helped a lot. And I don't want to tweak anything we did. They look good today. Yeah. Thanks to Mike's fantastic job. But I think, you know, custom fitters in general, don't forget, it's mega important that if you want to get that bag setup right, then you've got to spend the right time with the right custom fitter and get yourself dialed in. Right. Hopefully this was of some benefit to you. The key message was for me, at least anyway, I think it might work for you. Try and replicate that on course swing when you do get into that custom fit situations. Any feedback, any comments? Then please stick them down below now. Do your best to get back to you as ever. Hit that like button if you've enjoyed today's video. And that's just pretty much done. Yes. I can't believe we've got bobbalats on it. Arizona. I've never worn one before. It's a pretty damn cold out here. We even saw a little flurry of snow this morning. We did. It's time to go in and get warm. Thanks for watching and I'll see you all tomorrow night.