geldap

First off it was good to read that Precision Golf managed to establish the right specification for your irons and that your felt the fitting service was good value for the time/result achieved. I also felt that to be the case and have made recommendations to friends as a result and have to say that the "Trackman" is a great bit of kit too.

However I think within your quoted "£450 for supplying and fitting a set of shafts/grips" you have perhaps neglected to account for the SST Puring aspect that Precision Golf apply to the clubs as well. The element of the club make up price that accounts for is (approx) £25 per individual club.

Precision include that in all their quotes for the work to be done/clubs/shafts supplied but if you want to it is a cost (and benefit) that you could take out of the equation. Therefore if you had taken that amount out of the quote then I think you would find that the Precision Golf prices would have been very close to your own (un-named) fitter/supplier.

As for the time it would have taken for your clubs to be made up by Precision (up to 2 weeks I think you said) that could probably be more accounted for availability/stock of the shafts/grips you needed than an indication of the their ability to turn a job around and keep someone happy. Also I know from personal experience that if they have a shaft in stock the turn around is very quick. For example a few weeks ago I dropped off my Callaway FT-5 Tour driver to be re-shafted with a Ozik Matrix shaft at around 4.50pm on a Saturday just before they closed. I had a call the next wokring day (Monday bank holiday weekend) to say that it was ready to go.

Also I was interested to understand your breakdown of the cost of your Muira irons (good choice by the way!!) that now have. You said that your own club fitter charged you £220 and that the total outlay was £770 for the irons. So that means you managed to buy the Muira heads for £550 I presume? If that is the case I'd be interested to know where you bought them and if they were brand new clubs please, especially given how tricky it is to buy just the heads only in the Muira range.

Going back to the SST Puring point I thought you might be interested to know that I was until recently a sceptic on it's value when having clubs made up but that has changed. I recommended that a friend who was struggling with his driver to go and see Simon at Precision and see what thoughts/recommendations came from it. After a fitting session Simon thought that rather than try to upsell my friend (10 h'cap) into a new driver/exotic (read good and expensive!) shaft combo he would be better served by keeping his present R7 425 but having it SST Pured and Spine aligned. This was done with a 24 hour turn around and cost about £35. The next week we played together his drives were consistently longer, more accurate, better sounding and with a superior trajectory too. Given that one of my drivers was exactly the same specification-R7 425 10.5 degree Re-Ax 65 Stiff-I wanted to try the club as well. Bottom line it was exceptional and a utterly different club to the standard one and something well worth considering before chopping and changing between standard drivers. I felt that was a good example of an astute recommendation and one that wasn't borne of a need to take the money/opportunity to upsell the customer.

It's a fairly unusual shaft yet if you look at earlier posts seems to get recommended by them quite a lot. Why are they pushing this particular shaft?

If it was the DG S300 I could understand it - nothing sinister just unusual that's all.

I wasn't recommended that shaft, they gave me a list of about 7 shafts that would benefit me, ranging from DGs through to Project X, I went for the projects and have not regretted tyhe decision one bit.

 At the end of the day they are very good at what they do, try and get an appointment in the very near future....

Precision Golf wrote (see)

...When we select a shaft for specific characteristic for either woods or irons it is how these shafts are prepared, cut and installed that determines the resultant performance. If another clubmaker uses the same components without taking into consideration our build specification (details of which always remain at Precision Golf), then the results can be dramatically different.

However, we would welcome the opportunity to see the work you have had carried out elsewhere and see if we can rectify the situation.

James Davey

Director

I was in recently and had a new shaft fitted to a new driver, guys still busy and as helpful as ever.

Nimbleblade

if they don't freely give you the results they can charge what they like for heads / shafts.

Beware

Ren

 I may be able to clarify...

I was provided with full details of their recommendations, I was given a list of shafts etc that would suit my swing speed, launch angle etc, the one thing I have found very useful is that they hold all details of the fitting on their computer, which means that I am able to arrange a suitable time to drop my clubs off, go back a couple of days later to collect and the lofts and lies have been altered......no need for me to go through the whole adjustment tests again.

When I collected my clubs after building they spent a couple of hours setting them up, getting the lie spot on, these different measurements were then placed onto their system......I believe this is what James meant when he said 'details of which always remain at Precision Golf.'

Nimbleblade

Welleye

They ask you which ball you use and then you hit those. Oh and its not just a net. They use a trackman launch monitor - which is a doplar radar producing several signal transmissions. It is a system favoured by many tour pros and is popular with many top golfing organisations - which probably wouldn't give it time of day if it were a load of SH*TE.

I went there several days ago a learnt a lot, I am new to this shaft stuff as I come from an era where you predominately "play with the game you have" not buy a shaft, head etc .. then blame the equipment for your lack of skill.

I tried a few shafts and Simon started narrowing it down, I changed a few things in my swing (trackman picked these up and confirmed my intentions etc.. ), and settled on something that is nice and repeatable and the shaft and head combo was set from that. He also made me think about my approach to driving, which was a "tad" old fashioned. We didn't look at the 3 wood, there was no need I am happy with my current club it does everything I ask of it.

All my other clubs were measured at the time and there were a few differences but nothing hugely abnormal, but did confirm a few feelings that I had. For example I bought my irons 3 to 9 irons with the intention of buying a bladed wedge, so I researched my lofts and then bought a Cleveland (which isn't forged .. so not bladed) net result is this is very close to my 9I in end distance and this was something I felt out on the practice range and on course. It was made more clear on a basic loft measurement - not all that is said in the tech spec is true!!

The end result of my session with Precision Golf was an order for a driver which I will collect this coming Tuesday ... I am really looking forward to hitting it !!

As for costs, like previous posters  have stated, you pay for the service you get, I am happy with the service I got and don't feel that the cost was extorniate - is it not a waste of money buying something from a discount store that doesn't work for you and then having to trade it in at a loss and then buying another so called bargain??

I am also certain that if I have any issues I can go back to Simon and James and look to rectify them - but firstly I will look at myself and what I am doing wrong afterall I am the variable at the end of the club.