Clubfitting research: Unconventional improvement | Golf News and Tour Information [Video]

Our research project on the effect of clubfitting, which is being conducted in conjunction with Club Champion, is just getting started and already the results are educating us in ways we haven’t thought about before.

Case in point: Today I had a conversation with Glenn Goldsborough, a physics and astronomy teacher and golf coach at Pennsbury High School in Fairless Hills, Pa., who is one of the participants in our study. His intense fitting resulted in changes throughout his bag, but one of the more interesting developments is one even the more sophisticated equipment geeks might find counterintuitive: Slower speeds yielding more distance.

Here’s how that idea played out for Goldsborough, who plays to a 10.6 index: His current irons, TaylorMade’s Tour Burner, feature a stock graphite shaft that weighs just 65 grams. But Goldsborough was fit to TaylorMade’s R11 irons with a KBS Tour C Taper shaft that weighs …