Tom Wishon Golf Technologies www.wishongolf.com offers
a wide variety of
cutting edge proven designs every year. His remarkable
story is well documented.
He is an accomplished author and we highly recommend
seeking out his informative books.
We carry all Wishon products but
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An email from Tom Wishon to a
golfer inquiring about custom club fitting:
In your area Jim Von Lossow of Von's Golf is one of
the best clubfitters not just in the Pacific
Northwest,
but in the whole country. I've actually known Jim for
over 20 years in the business and he has a long list
of
satisfied customers. Pay him a visit and talk about
what you want to achieve in your equipment upgrade
and he'll definitely shoot you straight answers. But I
do recommend strongly that you at least start into the
Search book
http://www.wishongolf.com/designs/books/search_for_the_perfect_club/
that I wrote for consumer golfers, because you will
learn a whole lot of helpful information to guide the
search for your perfect golf clubs. Thanks for your
interest, I really appreciate that, Tom Wishon
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What is REAL Custom Fitting?
by Tom Wishon
A colleague of mine in the custom clubmaking
industry once made an analogy between custom
clubfitting and washing your car that I believe to
be very appropriate.
If your car is dirty and trashed out, you can pull
it into the driveway, hook up the hose and spray off
most of the surface dirt and grime. On the other
hand, you can do a better job in washing your car by
filling a bucket with soapy water and scrub off all
of the dirt with a sponge and a little ‘elbow
grease.’ Or, you can pull out all of the stops and
not only scrub the outside of the car, but wash,
wipe, vacuum and detail the inside as well and
finish with a wax and buff job.
Custom clubfitting is very much the same way. If you
realize that you simply bought your golf clubs in
standard form, off the rack from a golf retailer or
pro shop and you are curious as to whether your game
may benefit from being custom fit, there are many
different options available in the golf business,
all which are termed by some to be a ‘custom
fitting.’ The problem is, since 98% of all golfers
really don’t know what constitutes a real custom
fitting, it’s easy to think you’re getting the ‘full
detail job’ when you’re really ending up with only a
‘hose job.’
Real Custom Fitting is not answering five or six
questions on a web site to be ‘fit’ into a driver or
a set of irons.
Real Custom Fitting is not a cart with wheels filled
with different golf clubs and sitting in a pro shop
or on the practice range.
Real Custom Fitting is not attending a Demo Day at
your local driving range and hitting clubs until you
find something you like.
Real Custom Fitting is not something that can be
accomplished from start to finish in 20 minutes or
less, regardless if you are hitting balls on a
launch monitor.
Real Custom Fitting is not done by altering some
aspects of an existing standard made set of golf
clubs.
Real Custom Fitting IS working one on one with a
trained custom clubmaker over a period of at least
45 minutes or more, and frequently over the course
of 2 or more visits to the clubmakers shop. Real
Custom Fitting IS being fit from scratch, in the
same manner as a tailor making a custom suit, with
the right clubheads, shafts, and grips being
recommended by the custom clubmaker from a wide
variety of different models, designs and performance
factors. Real Custom Fitting IS the domain of the
serious, professional clubmaker who ‘lives, eats and
breathes’ all of the information available which
will allow him or her to accurately match each
golfer’s swing to the best fit set of golf clubs.
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