Your Fitting Specs Go With You. Know Them Before You Shop.

Say you lose faith in your 5-hybrid next spring.

Or your wedges wear out.

Or you see a club you love the look of.

Do you need to go through a whole new fitting just to replace one club?

Usually not, if you know your specs and your swing hasn't changed much since you got them.

The part of the fitting you keep

A fitting gives you a recommendation. It also gives you something that lasts longer than the order: the specs.

Loft. Lie. Length. Your shaft preferences.

Once you know those, buying gets easier.

You can order with confidence from many sources. You don't need to re-buy a full fitting every time you replace one club.

That's one of the biggest benefits of understanding your own equipment.

The fitting stops being a one-time event tied to one order. It becomes information you carry with you.

Do you actually have them?

Before you order anything, look at what you were given.

Can you find your loft, lie, length and shaft preferences on it?

Do you understand them well enough to say them out loud to somebody else?

If the answer's no, that's the question to ask before you leave, or before you order.

Not because anybody's hiding something. A lot gets covered in one session, and the specs can end up in a format that makes sense to the shop and not much sense to you.

The limitation is often the fitting format, not the fitter.

If you're looking at your sheet and you're not sure what some of it means, start with The build sheet.

Used clubs count too

Once you know your specs, new isn't your only option.

Used clubs can be great value.

A slightly older head built to your specs can be a much better buy than a new one built wrong.

Read that one twice.

The newest head on the rack doesn't help you much if the loft, lie or length isn't right for you. An older head that's set up for you might be the better club in your bag.

If you go that route, the specs are what make it a good buy instead of a guess. And it's worth having them confirmed on the club you actually end up with. A fitter can measure them quickly.

Keeping what works is a choice too

Knowing your specs doesn't mean you have to replace everything.

There's nothing wrong with keeping a club that works.

If a trusty fairway wood or hybrid goes your number, keep it.

Not every club in the bag has to come from the same fitting, the same year or the same order.

This isn't about walking away from your fitter

None of this is a reason to skip a good fitter.

A fitting is where those specs come from. That work has real value. For plenty of golfers, it's well worth paying for.

And when you're deciding what to buy, a good fitter will help you make the right decision, even if the right decision is to buy nothing.

What changes is that you're not starting from zero every time you need one club.

You know what you play.

You can ask better questions.

You can make the decision on your own time.

Before you order

Make sure you have your specs, and make sure you understand them.

Then decide where and what to buy.

If you've got a build sheet in front of you and something on it still doesn't make sense, send the build sheet and the question you still have. It's free, and a person will look at what you were given and reply by email.

You can do that on Before you order.

Your fitting gave you a club.

Your specs are what let you use that fitting again.