I am a fellow impatient 913 seeker and have heard annecdotally that it is possible to 'juice' up Trackman and other radars to give customers a falsified ego boost. I don't see the point myself as you would normally be hitting your current club before being fit for the equivalent replacement!

I'll be going to the Titleist national fitting centre which, for me, is at King's Acre and I'd hope that they would be using accurate equipment.

Hi Gdunc,

This isn't one that we have heard and as you rightly say, you would have hit your existing clubs prior to a fitting for a new club to provide a comparison.

Our equipment (Trackman) is as accurate as Dopplar Radar can be and we can assure you of true results during your fitting at Kings Acre.

All that can be done to adjust results is to normalise readings depending on weather conditions. For example, if you were hitting straight into a headwind, the "normalise" button will take into account the wind and provide you with a "no wind" reading. The fitter would advise if he was "normalising" the results.

Best regards

Hi Neil,

I had read of a US club fitter who had customers claiming that on other fitter's equipment their numbers were bigger and that it was possible to fudge the figures from the radar - possibly using wind correction as you suggest. He also reckoned that he rarely had players with swing speeds over 100mph and that only a handful were over 110mph.

Would be interesting to see the genuine average swing speeds generated on a fitting day as it seems that everyone on the net is swinging 115mph! Is such information normally recorded?

Duncan

Difficult to comment on that Duncan. I don't know whether that fitter was just servicing an older group of golfers with slower swing speeds or whether it was an "across the board" sample.

I have just spoken to one of our Tour fitters, who used to work in one of our National Fitting Centres. He estimated that between 40 and 50% of the golfers that he used to fit at the National Fitting Centre had swing speeds in the low 100mph range. However, he qualified this by saying that the percentage share would be skewed by the fact that it tended to be more avid golfers who used to get fitted (clearly now, more golfers of all swing speeds are realising the benefit of being custom fitted).

The majority would still be in the 90-100mph range and there would be very few at 110+mph.

We wouldn't, as a matter of course, batch record swing speed data, but I would be surprised if there were more than a handful of golfers from the hundreds that we see each season at Titleist fitting days with swing speeds at, or in excess of, 115mph.

So the question I would ask is this:

Is using Trackman with one piece ("Stolen From...") range balls in any detrimental to the fitting?

I don't think it is detrimental Greg, as the fitting would be comparing existing clubs to clubs you are being fit for - and the performance of the ball would be the same for both. Would the results be different to those you would get from the ball you normally play? Yes.

So not detrimental, just different.