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Two golfers go through the comprehensive putter fitting process with SIK Golf to find their perfect match and hole more putts
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00:00How many of you watching right now have been custom fitted for your putter?
00:04I bet it's very very few of you and while we all tend to rightly focus on our irons and drivers
00:10when we invest in new clubs we often neglect the club we use the most on course which is the putter.
00:15Getting fitted for a putter should be done as meticulously as your irons if you're really
00:20intending on lowering your handicap and playing better golf. To show you the process of a putter
00:25fitting and to give you an idea about why they're so beneficial we've teamed up with Sick Golf to
00:29educate you on the ins and outs of a good and importantly wide-ranging putter fitting.
00:35We'll also take a dive into the technology behind the latest range of Sick Putters which represents
00:39some of the most advanced technologies currently on the market. We've brought along with us two
00:43golf monthly readers who have never been fitted for a putter before and are also very curious
00:48about the process. They've also told me they're really looking to improve their putting and are
00:52willing to try any new techniques or equipment to help chip away at their handicap. The technology
00:58used by our fitter Ollie Leet today at his putting hub here in Somerset will be able to give both of
01:03our readers a real education into what their putting stroke is actually doing. Whilst using Sick's
01:08extensive range of fitting options they should both be able to find the exact putter to help them out
01:13on the greens. So with all that in mind let's go and meet our readers at the wonderful Tickenham
01:17Golf Centre, find out a bit about their golf and see how they get on during their fitting.
01:34The putter I have been using prior to the fitting is a Scotty Cameron Dual Balance putter which I went to
02:04probably about four or five years ago just to give in my mind more stability when I was putting
02:09because frankly I was a pretty streaky putter so I was trying to find something that would suit me
02:15but was a little bit more consistent. I've never been fitted for a putter before in fact it's the
02:20only club in the bag that I've never been fitted for which is remarkable really when you consider how
02:25many times you use it. I found the experience fascinating frankly I had no idea of the amount of
02:30information that could be captured from just hitting sort of 10 foot putts and it actually
02:34made a lot of good sense for things because things that I instinctively or intuitively felt were
02:39happening in some cases were but in other cases were completely different. So the whole process
02:45as well as chopping and changing different options and this kind of thing and seeing the impact of them
02:50I just found it fascinating. Sure if I'd had to characterise my poor putts coming into the putter
02:55fitting I would have said I tended to push shorter putts but also hit off centre with some of the
03:01longer putts I felt they were coming out the heel. As it turns out through looking at the statistics
03:06that wasn't the case in fact I was hitting them high out the face rather than out the heel. I'd never
03:11seen a sick putter before I did look before this fitting I did actually have a quick look at about
03:17what they were about but didn't necessarily recognise that they would be radically different. When I started
03:23hitting some putts I found that the actual quality of the strike of the putt even though it was telling
03:28me they were off the top of the head was actually an awful lot better it felt a much purer strike
03:34even though the the loft was getting it rolling quicker than my my current putter so frankly and it
03:42wasn't anything I had to change that just came with the the technology with insect putter so that
03:47became very comfortable very quickly. It was great from the perspective of having all the different
03:51combinations that I felt I could try some different things even some that I would not if I'd have been
03:57in a normal sort of purchase to go into a shop and try a few things I'd have never even picked them off
04:01the shelf so although I've ended up settling for something that's not a million miles away from what
04:06I originally had it was great to an extent to discount some of the other shapes not because they were
04:12bad but just because either they suited my eye less or I just found the putting experience with them
04:17not quite as good so Mike was putting well when he first come in he's been taking some tuition and
04:23been doing really well with it so what we identified with Mike was there was a few things we could
04:28improve so his face change from where he was aiming to where the face was at impact was a little
04:33inconsistent down at 50 percent and another thing was his launch so interestingly with Mike he was hitting
04:39it high on the face but he was adding loft as well so they're really losing a lot of energy through poor roll
04:45we give him the equivalent putter in the sick head and the the launch just changed massively on the
04:50slow motion we could see before you know it was really taking off and we got it down you know with
04:56the technology in the face to get that ball rolling really really quick and it was super real game changer
05:03so to get a good roll like the optimum launch for a putt you would get the first 10 percent in the air
05:09the next 10 percent it'll be sort of bouncing and then it reaches true roll at 20 percent
05:13so Mike's was still bouncing outside of that 20 percent and when we changed the sick technology
05:19straight away within sort of 15 20 percent that ball was on a pure roll so the next thing we identified
05:25was the type of hosel that was suited for him so we tried in the face balance which is what he had
05:30not a lot of change in the in the consistency of the face change as soon as we went to the plumber's neck
05:36it really made a huge difference of delivering that clubface back to square more often which is key
05:42what we were looking for from memory it went from 50 to 77 percent and then we messed around with
05:47heads and sight lines and we got that consistencies up into the 90s which is a real game changer really
05:53to to know he's hitting it where it's aiming 90 percent of the time rather than 50 percent of the time
05:58current putter uh like bag is tailor-made spider i had about five years generally it's pretty reliable
06:04uh a few you know errors a push and a pull but that's standard goal for you um today got fitted
06:09for uh the show and a face balance in the end the it was kind of robotic you know with the stats uh
06:16it was more so how many do i make more than i miss um yes you know it's really good experience and
06:21good fun with the uh fitting today with the technology used and sick um was very interesting
06:26obviously my current part of the the spider um when we put it on the sam putt lab there was a lot of
06:31check to it so it was a lot of bouncing it kind of lifted in the air bounced a couple of times
06:35then spent on which on average potentially losing a yard or two which on that longer part could be the
06:40sake of missing it you know three foot short or next to the hole yeah so once i started hitting the
06:45sick uh putter it felt very different it was completely contrasting to what i'm using in this in
06:51the spider where i felt i was hitting off the face it just rolled it just straight off the face no
06:56matter if i had it a bit low a bit high it just went off like a rocket you know so for me it'll
07:02be a learning curve to my weight now of how to hit the putt and to get it going but it's a smooth
07:07putter it come off lovely you know it's just you know really good technology behind behind the head
07:12yeah i'd say if you've never been for a putter fitting and it's something you're considering
07:16i'd say you know do it at the end of the day it's where we save the most shots potentially on a
07:20course you know our long game can be brilliant but there's no point if you're on a two three four
07:24putt on every green you know having the right putter that works for you and you can work on
07:27that putting and get used to it you know that's fitted to the optimum performance for yourself
07:32you know as i've walked in and just brought one off the shelf made it work for me now got a proper
07:37fitting i realized how different i would have gone if i had that fitting from day one matt was using a
07:43spider putter and uh he was putting really well he had a great ability to return the face to where he
07:49was aiming so we made sure we didn't lose any of that during it um but what was really inconsistent
07:55was his path and the arc i think the path consistency was 14 and the arc was 18 so really poor so although
08:03the delivery of the face was pretty good matching the arc and the sort of rotation of the stroke
08:09was a little bit more difficult i think like part of the putter fitting there's always going to be an
08:13element of coaching in there today with matt you know we were noticeably going sort of outside the
08:20line and quite short on the way back and then a big acceleration through so we did talk a little bit
08:25of technique there to allow him to bring that club inside the line and a bit further which certainly
08:31helped him with the start line he had his club face his hands were back 2.9 degrees launching the ball
08:37at five and a half degrees and from the slow-mo video we can see that it's hopping and skipping outside
08:42of that 20 range we just give him the sick putter didn't do anything and straight away within the
08:4815 20 the ball was rolling well gaining energy and now we can't stop hitting the ball too far past the
08:53hole yeah we went for the show head which really suited him it was slightly heavier than his uh his
08:59tailor-made spider and it felt heavier as well because it was a thinner grip than he had on the the
09:04the 2.0 super stroke was on his current club so just by having that lighter thought thinner grip give him
09:11a bit more head weight the face balance really helped for his off-centered strikes and he just
09:16aimed it beautiful and stroke it stroke it beautiful so it was nice good to see the sight lines on the
09:21putters are really interesting it can change absolutely everything or it could change nothing
09:27i think it's a lot of trial and error but typically like more lines on putters golfers will aim further
09:33left less lines or lines near the top line will aim further right as a rule of thumb but i've seen it go
09:40both ways so left eye dominant tend to prefer the line on top rather on the bottom but again it's
09:45sort of trial and error and through the fitting process we we try them all and we find which one
09:50gets you aiming like a laser and putting like a laser well there you have it we've had a fantastic
09:55day here at the ticket of golf center learning the ins and outs of everything that goes into a good
10:00putter fitting as well as that we've seen some fascinating technology and innovation in the latest
10:05range of sick putters that have helped both of our readers different golfers with very different
10:10putting strokes find a solution on the greens it's been fascinating to see how many solutions there
10:15were on offer for each of them and hopefully you've seen today the importance of a good putter
10:21fitting with a wide variety of heads and shafts available to help them with their putting stroke
10:26but for now a massive thanks to ollie leat at the ollie leat putting hub here in somerset
10:30thanks for watching this video we'll see you next time to explore the full range of sick golf putters
10:34for yourself you can visit their website at www.sickgolf.com
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