The Racks
What Is on the Wall and How It Got There
Roughly three hundred head and shaft combinations, every one of them gripped and playable. Nothing sits on the wall because a representative asked nicely. A component earns its slot by winning sessions against what is already there, and it loses the slot when it stops.
Shafts
The shaft racks are organised by weight band and profile rather than by manufacturer, which is the only arrangement that makes sense when you are fitting rather than shopping. A client rarely needs a brand. They need something in the sixty gram range with a soft middle section, and there are half a dozen good answers to that from four different companies.
Steel iron shafts
Full weight ladders from the low nineties up through the one twenties, in both constant weight and ascending weight layouts.
Graphite iron shafts
Sixty through ninety gram options, which is the fastest growing part of our business as the average age of our clients climbs.
Wood and hybrid shafts
Forty through eighty grams across low, mid and high launch profiles, with several tipping options held in stock lengths.
We hold shafts from the large American and Japanese makers whose names you would expect, plus two smaller houses whose mid weight graphite has quietly won a lot of our senior fittings. We will name whichever one wins in your bay, and we will not pretend the difference between the top three finishers was larger than it was.
Heads
We stock test heads across every category, in current and one generation back. The older generation matters more than shops admit, because a two year old head at a third of the price is frequently the correct recommendation for a golfer whose limiting factor is not the head at all.
- Drivers in three shape families, from the genuinely forgiving to the compact, in nine through twelve degrees
- Fairway woods and the high lofted models most bogey golfers should be playing but rarely try
- Hybrids and driving irons side by side, because that choice is the single most common set makeup question we get
- Game improvement, players distance and players irons, so the trade-off is felt rather than described
- Wedges in four bounce and grind families, which is where the depth really is on our wall
- Blade, mid mallet and mallet putters across three hosel configurations and two neck lengths
Grips
Around forty models in stock, spanning rubber, corded, hybrid and oversize builds, in undersize through jumbo. In this climate the corded and hybrid options matter more than they would inland, because a smooth rubber grip in August humidity turns into something you have to squeeze, and squeezing costs you clubhead speed and face control at the same time.
Grip size gets measured, not guessed. Glove size is a starting hint and nothing more. We check where your fingertips sit against your palm on a range of builds and then fit tape wraps to fine tune, which is a five dollar adjustment that changes face rotation more than most clients believe until they see it.
How a Component Loses Its Slot
Every quarter we pull the session logs and look at what actually won. Anything that has not been specified in a build for two consecutive quarters comes off the wall, regardless of how well it sells nationally or how much we personally like it. That rule has removed shafts we were fond of and kept heads we initially dismissed.
It also means the racks here look slightly different from the racks at a shop across the water. That is not a claim to superior taste. It is a reflection of who walks through this door: mostly mid handicappers, mostly playing coastal courses, mostly wanting the ball to finish nearer the middle of the world.