Waggle Weight Wisdom™

Ralph Maltby and Tom Wishon have been two of the more familiar promoters of golf-related information and products over the last two to three decades.  Mr. Maltby’s Golf Club Design, Fitting, Alteration, and Repair, first published in 1974, opened up a new era in the study of golf clubs.  Roughly a decade later, Mr. Wishon first notably appeared on the scene, generating his own materials and gaining a following.  Both men may be considered (more…)

Consider for a moment various occupations that surround golf clubs.  There are players of course, who must use clubs to perform their best.  There are those who assemble and/or repair golf clubs, and then those who possess the ability to help fit clubs to golfers, which is altogether different than repairing clubs.  Next there are golf club designers, which may embody complete golf club design and performance or can focus solely on the design of individual components of club heads, shafts, and/or grips.  I assure you, one can be a good designer of clubs and yet know little about (more…)

I have mentioned more than once that I did not take up golf earnestly until I was into college.  My younger days were spent like many other middle-class aspiring athletes, passionately pursuing a baseball career.  My family could also better afford that.  A big part of this was playing organized ball at free parks.  I swung a baseball bat what seemed like more than a million times, working on my hitting technique and also experimenting with many different bats during both practices and games to try to get the most out of whatever talent I had.  One foundational bat element is the diameter of its handle.  I selected what handle size to use at any given time based preeminently on (more…)

In my last entry, I presented statistics showing there is a very small range indeed between the minimum and maximum values of golf club specifications when analyzing the preferences of the entire spectrum of golfers, legitimizing the slightly true statement that good golfers can often play with “anything.”  On the other hand, it has also been proven over a really long period of time that (more…)

Across a table from one another, each with their own chair, I seat a golfer, lacking any clubs to utilize, and opposite to him a set of golf clubs, at which point I investigate as to which one is willing and able to play the game of golf and play it better.  I instruct the golfer to go play in accordance with certain rules and I giggle as I watch him swat at a golf ball barehanded to try and get it into a hole some four-hundred yards away.  Still, (more…)

Most people within the independent custom clubfitting business are quick to blame their lack of notoriety and insufficient numbers of customers on (more…)

In another respect however, such as the fitting of grip size, there is just no acceptable excuse for the way golf club fitting continues to be approached today.  Remember what I stated in a recent posting about how many non-athletes play the game?  Well, legions of similarly inexperienced people also migrate to clubfitting for various reasons.  Some are (more…)