Ok, now that I’ve had time to sit down and gather my thoughts a little I’ll try and describe the process. First, I purchased a custom putter from Artisan almost a year ago but was only able to send in videos and do the fit over the phone. Today John took a few moments to check the fit and decided everything looks good and gave me a few pointers regarding my stroke. Putter fit was solid and needed no adjustment. On to wedges...
Next Jaime, which is the in house fitter who really knows his shit spent the next 3 hours with me working on finding the proper wedges for my game. The facility has 4 greens a couple bunkers, and approximately 130 yards of short game area. Jaime made it a point to put me in the most uncomfortable positions possible. We started at 35 yards, 60 yards, 110, and last 120 yards. During this time he would randomly hand me clubs out of his Artisan staff bag. I never once ask him what I had in my hand regarding bounce or grind, only loft as I didn’t want to hit a ball into a parking lot 😂. We finished the wedge fitting from short side pitches and chips to tight pins working on finding the proper grinds to allow best contact. We rounded up the morning hitting the new prototype irons....
So finally the unexpected part of my fitting. Jaime and Mike T surprised me with a couple 7 irons that he drug out of a closet. New prototype irons, 1 muscle back and 1 cavity. I was allowed to hit each a handful of times and give my feedback on what I thought. They are VERY clean, with minimal offset. I was so nervous as this was the first time Mike T has watched me during the day and he stood right over me watching me strike ball after ball. This man watched Tiger for years I’m assuming in the same darn position as I was. Pretty neat stuff. I’ll add some photos below but they are from a distance as my wife tagged along but stayed her distance.
