PING Custom Fitting | Golf Monthly

They should do, like I said earlier, it seems to be a standardised procedure for all PING dealers with the fitting, and if they don't do fitting, the will host a fitting day when the truck comes.

I'm sure there's a direct golf on the left-hand side as you go into Huddersfield town centre from the M62, I occasionally go there with work. I think that's the one near the stadium.

Generally speaking, a pro shop would be more expensive than a retailer, but not in all cases. If you want to be cheeky, you could ask the pro to pricematch DG, and hope that they can. As for DG's fitting procedure, it depends what they did. If they just gave you half a dozen shaft and head combinations and asked which one you prefer, then I wouldn't consider that custom fitting. And just going around the racks in the shop, trying to find some irons that suit someone, settling on some John Letters' isn't custom fitting either. Whereas taking measurements, asking what you want, and actually going into a monitor, and having ball flights and other data studied to recommend you a suitable combination, then that is more what PING specify on their website, and if they actually do it, then good on them, that's what I'd call proper fitting.

A pro has a professional duty to advise you (sort of), so it's his job to put you in the right direction, whereas a kid in a big retailer might be on minimum wage and a zero-hour contract, just want to make a quick sale and get rid of you. Not all of them, naturally, but you can see where I'm coming from