In this video, Genelle Aldred - a 45-index handicap golfer - goes for a fitting with PXG... But does it make a difference?
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00:00I'm Janelle Aldred and I'm a relatively new golfer. I've been playing for about 15 months
00:04and I'm already on my second driver and second set of irons. Now I've been wondering lately,
00:11is it my kit that's holding me back? Now of course a new golfer would say it's their kit
00:16that's holding them back, but a chat with master PXG fitter Jack Venn the other day actually
00:22convinced me. What he said was, you wouldn't expect someone to run a marathon in a pair of
00:27trainers that are a size too small. So PXG have kindly agreed to custom fit me here at the Drift
00:34Golf Club in Leatherhead to see if it is my kit that's holding me back and if I could make some
00:40gains if I changed my clubs to custom fits. PXG doesn't make golf clubs for men or for ladies,
00:46we make golf clubs that I can fit into anybody because we can offer different lengths, different
00:53weights, different flexes. So I'm going to build you up something that's very, very similar or as
00:58similar as I can get to your iron to not throw you off too much to start with from like a length
01:03and weight perspective. One thing I will say about these and you probably know it already, these are
01:10incredibly light. So this is the, this is the lightest golf club I've ever put on this machine.
01:15No. Yes. Yeah. So we'll build something up. I'm going to build something up as close to that as I can
01:20get and we'll kind of go from there. Oh, come on. Okay. Give me one more and I'm going to keep,
01:29I'm just going to keep changing it up until we find what's right. Better.
01:35Yes. Awesome. Still feel a bit too light. It still does feel a little bit light because I feel like
01:44when I'm hitting the ball, it's like I can really, it's like I can really feel it. So feedback for me
01:50is so essential. Um, so if at any point something feels too light, too heavy, um, just let me know
01:58because I don't want to work with something for you if you, if it doesn't feel right. Yeah. Feedback is
02:02massively important for me. Um, and it just means we don't have to persevere with something that
02:07doesn't feel right for you. That doesn't feel good. Yeah. Oh yeah. I can feel this feels a bit
02:11heavier. Feel a bit better. Yeah. Okay. Good. So just since that tiny bump up in weight, we're now
02:18starting to see better results, aren't we? And you called it before you even swung the golf club. It
02:22feels better. The reason I'm changing the lie angle is I can see that the golf ball is wanting to start
02:27right and stay right. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to, I'm going to change the overall
02:31line or the golf club to try and get it starting a bit more on target. So, um, the best way to
02:36describe it is if I, if, if we've got a golf and everybody's different, but if we've got a golf
02:42club, that's, that's too upright for you, the face is pointing left. Yeah. If we've got a golf club
02:47that's too flat, the face is pointing right. So we kind of want to get that ball starting at target.
02:52So I'm, I'm going to change this now to try and do that because you've hit some great shots,
02:56but they're just starting a little bit right. So I'm going to move it a fraction more upright
03:00to try and bring that ball back round to the left. Because before my natural shot,
03:06a bit more of a draw. Okay. But since I've had these irons, my miss has been right. And before
03:11my miss was never right. It was always left. It would be a draw or a hook.
03:15There it is. So look at that for a ball flight, you know, that's not gone right. It's not started
03:24right before, you know, you, you, you struck some really nice golf shots, but they're starting
03:28right. They're staying right. That assures me that that lie angle now is spot on. You just stood up
03:33and hit two golf shots. Firstly, look at your dispersion. Yeah. Those two are on top of each
03:37other. Yeah. Secondly, the ball flight, thirdly the strike. That's really impressive. That's really
03:42good. That's really good. So I'm really happy with where these are. Okay. So you, yeah, you've
03:49got quite a lot of pressure from your fingers. Um, in there, if you do that for me now with that
03:54one, so grip that. Okay. And now remove. Yeah. So this is too small. I would put you in this one.
04:00Brilliant. Yeah. Cause this does feel better. Feels more comfortable. Feels more comfortable. Yeah.
04:05I think that's kind of spot on. It's kind of spot on. Yeah. Cause what we could do, like if this is,
04:10if you're happy with the thickness and that, but you know, perhaps going up to a midsize is too big,
04:16the way that we can kind of play around with that is while we can make that a tiny bit thicker
04:19without going to a thicker grid. Okay. Just by adding a couple of layers of tape. Yeah.
04:24So, um, on my worst days, this can't even get me off the tee on my worst days.
04:31So the first thing I'm going to do, Janelle, just from what I can see is we need to get the golf ball
04:44in the air quicker. We can, we can get you launching the golf ball higher. Uh, the ball will stay in the
04:50air for longer and it'll go further. So that's the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to look
04:53at the loft of your golf club. So you're a 10 and a half degree loft and you've lofted it up to 11 and a
04:59half. I'm going to give you a 12 degree head to start. Okay. Okay. Good strike. My initial thoughts
05:08are this is too long. So I'm going to go a tiny bit shorter. Okay. So, and this, this is a great
05:15point as well when, uh, you know, at the start where I'm telling you, we don't make golf clubs for
05:20men or ladies. We make golf clubs. So this is a perfect example, right? So I'm putting you in a
05:25shaft now, which is cast as an A flex. So you're not in a, you're not in what would be known
05:30as a ladies flex or anything like that. So this is where we really just tailor golf clubs
05:35into your speed, your strike. Have a go with this one. This is going to feel a little bit
05:40shorter, feel a bit more comfortable. Yes. Cause I can actually do the, you don't feel like
05:45it stood too far away. No. And I can do the. So that strike was like brilliant. Golf shot.
05:57That's awesome. That was decent. That was awesome. So I see you, I mean, your, your covered speed
06:04has got, I saw you top out at 79, which is quite some speed. Yeah. Um, I see this being
06:12a bit further up for you personally. Um, at the moment you're just hitting it a little
06:17bit out to the right. I'll make one more change and then we'll go from there. If anything,
06:22I would say you're launching at a fraction too high. Okay. Yeah. So I'm going to drop you
06:26back down again, but I'm going to have it playing at 12, at, um, 12 degrees in a 10 and a half
06:34head. So what, what I'm doing there is when you loft the driver up, it closes the face.
06:38Yeah. So the reason I'm closing the face is cause I don't want you to hit it right. Yeah.
06:42If that's your bad shot, I want to try and take that away from you a little bit. Yeah.
06:47This does feel better.
06:55Massive difference.
06:58Oh, that's nice.
07:01I just, so it's quite a common thing that I see it and it's probably amongst 90% of
07:06amateur golfers are better with more loft than less. Yeah. So if I give you a wood
07:11like this, that's 21 degrees, you're probably going to hit that further than the
07:15wood. That's got 15 degrees because there's more, there's more loft. The
07:19balls up in the air quicker. It's in the air for longer. So therefore it's going a bit
07:23further. Nice little draw.
07:29Maybe it's all in my head that I need this, but on par fives, I think I struggle a bit
07:37because, um, if I don't get off the tee well, I'll just take irons all round for safety.
07:43Right. Cause I might be panicking. Okay. But I could do with...
07:47Yes. Awesome. Great golf swing. How good was that?
07:52That was nice. Oh my God. That's real pretty.
07:56That is.
07:57Yeah, I've had a photo of that one.
08:00Best shot of the day. I really enjoyed that fitting session with Brandon today and it wasn't
08:09just the fact that I love data. So anything like track man or the lie angle or looking at,
08:16are you hitting up, are you hitting down? I love all of that anyway. I've got the watch,
08:19all of that kind of stuff. But actually what was really good for me today was to know I'm
08:23not flattering myself when I think that my kit is beginning to hold me back. My swing's improved.
08:28I'm a bit faster. And actually the kit I've got, whilst it's great, it's not a great fit for me.
08:34And so a few things that I take away from this custom fitting is that one,
08:38you're probably not ever too soon in your beginner journey to get custom fitted,
08:42because actually in terms of replacing a kit already in my 15 month journey,
08:48getting things cut down and all of those different things,
08:51I've probably spent a decent amount of money that if I got fitted, I would have been more comfortable
08:56because actually once he adjusted the lie angle and the weight of the shaft and the length of it,
09:02immediately my swing just felt so much easier. I didn't feel like I was having to put all the
09:06effort that I feel like I'm putting into my swing sometimes to really get into it. So I would
09:10definitely get fitted sooner. Second of all, as a new golfer, it's so easy to feel like a bit of an
09:15imposter. And, you know, even the thought of saying to someone, you know, I'm going to get
09:19fitted for clubs is kind of, well, who do you think you are? Because of course you would think
09:22it's the clubs and not, and not you, but just getting fitted today and beginning to understand
09:27a bit more about how my body works well with a club actually makes me feel like a bit more of a golfer.
09:34And that imposter stuff kind of begins to go away because actually I can play golf,
09:39I can hit the ball. And I'm at the stage where I also need to have the right kit to fit with me.
09:44And so it was nice to hear from Brandon that actually I'm not making it all up in my head,
09:48but actually my kit was beginning to hold me back. And today I felt like a golfer.