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Originally Posted by POKEROMGLOL
Crazy! Unfortunately my fitting would likely be extremely boring. Either the Titleist guy was a fraud, or I'm just an extremely average person, because I was stock everything.
The p790 7 iron is 5 degrees less loft than the AP2 I'm hitting, which is probably a club and a half. That's insane! Not even accounting for other new technology. That means I'd be hitting it 165-170? hard to fathom.
Your Titleist fitter only had a few shafts to choose from, only the ones that Titleist offers which wasn't that many at the time. And only Titleist heads as well. So a fitting like that is extremely limited.
As far as iron fitting, figuring out the head is the easy part. Figuring out the shaft is the tricky and probably more important part. You probably can gain almost two clubs with a good fitting, the question is can you be consistent with the distance in doing so. It doesn't make any difference if you can hit a 7-iron 175 one time and then 155 the next.
FWIW, at 5'10" 165 lbs, my stock distance for a Ping i210 7-iron(33 degrees) with a 105 gram Nippon steel shaft is 170 yards. You can't necessarily compare driver distance, it's all about learning how to properly compress the ball between the blade and the ground with irons. You don't swing up on it like a driver. I can hit a club like the Ping g710(29.5 degrees, hollow body) with a lighter graphite shaft 190 yards, but it's not as easy to control the numbers.
If you want to get fit correctly in the DFW area, I can tell you where. It's $150 for an iron fitting which does not go towards the purchase of any clubs. The builders are the best I've seen, you wouldn't want to take the specs and have someone else try to cobble the components together.