Waggle Weight Wisdom™

I am a firm believer in personalized golf club fitting to help players improve, maybe even more so than those trying so hard to tout its potential benefits.  Before regularly touching a golf club, I already had more than a decade of experience playing baseball and other sports, becoming very familiar early on of how equipment changes can alter one’s performance and to what degree.  Unfortunately, today’s fitting of clubs to golfers is (more…)

As recorded last time, the concept of “dynamic” golf club fitting and the golf club specification of swingweight, presently badly misused in golf club fitting, are just two of several applications that are poorly executed when attempting to fit golf clubs to players.  Consider the club specification of face angle for example, a parameter traditionally applied only to woods, but any golf club (more…)

I will begin by making a very brief run through some of what a golfer can expect from a typical golf club fitter today.  I will mention just a few select items now and not describe a comprehensive fitting, but you will clearly get the drift.  (more…)

Due to its unique requirements to achieve success (including a certain lack of athletic prowess and experience), there will probably always be a substantial segment of the golfing population who will be convinced that a golf swing is one of the most demanding motions to undertake.  The hard-fought goal for players in particular is to (more…)

Golf indeed allows players to participate in the game who would figuratively be eaten alive in most any other sport.  Among numerous factors for this truth is that raw, physical strength and conditioning demands are not as great in order to excel at golf.  This can be a favorable aspect as (more…)

So you can swing a golf club.  Big deal.  Golf swings that are decent enough to play consistently well are a dime a dozen, yet so many of these players still very bluntly stink.  To logically decide what must be done next in order to play golf well, the mystery of “a golf swing is hard” needs to be solved first.  A few of the next specific questions to be asked and answered are, (more…)

At the nucleus of comprehending both how a golf swing is formed and the development of golf clubs, the specification of swingweight is utilized by practically every player and golf club manufacturer at every level of skill.  This unique parameter has firmly held its ground in the course of changes to golf clubs from (more…)

There is no one correct approach for learning how to swing a golf club well, as there are as many good golf swing motions to be had as there are golfers.  I can head out to the driving range and find an amateur golfer who takes his swing very seriously and yet (more…)

Now golf is hardly one of the more important things in the overall scheme of life, and rightly so.  Therefore, independent research is not performed like in medical science, where one group of golfers may take swing lessons and use other swing aids, while the other “placebo” group is kept from all but a golf club and some golf balls, to see (more…)

I take no pleasure in presenting this perspective regarding educators of the game (of which I am one) and swing aids.  But my first-hand view is what it is when I am wearing my athlete’s hat and only my athlete’s hat, and it may help enlighten anyone wanting to play golf better.  The plain, unimposing fact is (more…)