Every year is a big year for big-time golf-club companies, with continual new releases and technologies to help golfers play their best.
With the golf season winding down, and another round of club launches presumably right around the corner, which brands have had the biggest years in the fitting bays?
On this week’s episode of GOLF’s Fully Equipped, Bryan LaRoche, owner of Fleming Island, FL’s BryanGolf, answered that very question for the different equipment categories.
He started with Ping drivers.
“A lot of Ping woods, a lot of Ping drivers, all the drivers,” LaRoche said. “Like a lot of [G440] SFT. Them doing the 9-degree in SFT is one of the most underrated moves in custom club fitting history in my mind.”
With Ping’s G440 line released at the beginning of the year, the company added a 9-degree loft option for the draw-biased SFT model, which stands for Straight Flight Technology. In previous lines, the SFT head was only available with 10.5˚ of loft.
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LaRoche said that helped solve a huge problem for the target SFT player.
“I couldn’t fit too many guys into the 10.5, because most of those guys who are needing an SFT, they’re not just struggling with a big fade, they’re also struggling with spin,” LaRoche said. “We’re able to get a lot of guys into the SFT.”
When it comes to irons, LaRoche said Titleist came “in from the top rope here at the end of the summer” with their new 2025 T-Series lineup.
“You can pretty much fit anybody into the Titleist irons,” he said. “You can find some iron, especially if somebody needs a little bit of height. And I know we talk in fitting, and we hear with Titleist’s every video, it’s 3Ds, 3Ds. The 3Ds are real.”
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