Frequently Asked Questions
FAQ
Benefits of component golf clubs
Take control of your game. Components give you the advantage of constructing a club that works with your individual swing. Mixing and matching component parts creates the total compliment of clubs to support your game. By selecting lofts and club angles that work with you, the technology gains the added distance on the golf course. Need spin? No spin? Lower center of gravity or higher? More length from heel to toe, or less surface area? Heavier club? Lighter club? Drivers? Fairway Woods? Irons? At KGS-you can have it anyway you like it.
Our suppliers have created a line of drivers, fairway woods, irons and even shafts, that are forgiving, allowing for a solid hit, even with a flawed swing. They allow the average player the ability to play like a pro.
Our Quality Suppliers include SMT Golf, Raven Golf, Enzo, Geek Golf and Pure Golf Grips.
Let's not forget the importance of assembly. Custom clubs are not only built to fit you, they are also assembled in such a way to give you the best golf your game will allow.
Your club builder will assemble your components to maximize each component being used. Your club builder will frequency match your entire set, Flo your graphite shafted clubs and spine align your steel shafted club. Your club builder will ensure the weights match, the grips fit and that you are happy.
These are all things that you can not get off the rack at any one golf store. Be sure to see a custom club builder to improve your golf experience!
There have been many articles written, and many questions asked about custom fitting! Golf magazine published an article in the February 2011 issue with the results of their independent custom fitting test. Their findings published on page 64 are.....
From Golf Digest, Nov'09, p.28
ASK TIGER
Q. What is the best tip you would give to a beginner?
(Anne Patterson, Boulder, CO)A. Find clubs that fit you. It will save you a ton of aggravation from the start. Make sure they aren't too short, long or heavy. Otherwise, you'll adapt your swing to the equipment in a way that might not be technically sound. It's easy to get fit, and it really does matter. We have been saying this for years and now the best player in the world Validates our recommendations!
Spine Alignment / FLO
We use specialized equipment to locate the "spine" of a golf shaft.
Shaft spines have been defined in a number of ways...they have been called irregularities; high or low spots; out of round places...the list goes on and on. A good working definition of a spine would concern the position of the shaft in a club that allows the shaft to bend naturally as it was designed to do.
Shafts installed with their spines in the neutral position (parallel to the target) permit a club to perform consistently though the set; this is evidenced by player feedback!
A best-fit shaft for a player will load and unload in a straight line in relation to the intended target. Spine Aligning helps to ensure that this will occur; shafts that are not spine aligned tend to bend either more toe-up or toe-down than will provide the best shaft plane for the golfer. Independent tests conducted by Golf Science Consultants have shown that in a small population of golfers tested, they have experienced a 20-60% improvement in their percentages of on-centre hits when using clubs that have properly fitted shafts that have been spine aligned.
Do to the time involved, (added cost to manufacture), most club manufacturers do not “spine align” the shafts that are produced for the general public. Shafts are mass produced, labeled or painted and graphics added. When assembled they are installed so the graphics “Look Good”. Your spine aligned set will likely have the graphics in different positions, depending on the location of the spine!
In the case of Graphite shafts our preferred method of assembly is Flat Line Oscillation (FLO). With the head dry mounted on the shaft we use a laser device to determine the optimum shaft alignment.
"Moment of inertia" is the term applied to a clubhead's resistance to twisting when the ball is struck. For example, your swing is a little off and you hit the ball on the toe of the clubhead. A clubhead with a higher MOI will twist less as a result of the mis-hit, creating a better chance that the ball will still go where you intended and with less loss of distance
Moment of Inertia is a physical property that can be expressed as a numerical measurement. That's not a number that is common to see (yet) in golf clubs. However, the term "moment of inertia" or "MOI" is becoming much more common in advertising and marketing by the golf club companies. With our specialized building equipment, we can build a complete set of irons in which each club is MOI Matched. this means that each club will take the same amount of energy to swing. This results in a set of clubs that each club feels the same.
What is True Length Technology™?
Can you imagine owning a set of clubs, where every club's length
places the grip perfectly in your hands, in the same playing position every time?
"My long irons are too long and my short irons are too short"
will be a thing of the past!
The True Length Technology™ secret is in the individual length progression between each club. Simply put - 1/2 inch length progression verses 1 degree of lie angle is mathematically incorrect.
True Length Technology™ corrects this conditionTraditional methods of golf club building has each club one half of an inch shorter than the next club as you progress through the set from 3 iron down to the wedges, regardless of the lie angle .
Here is an example of standard build lengths:
Men's & Women's Standard Lengths
Clubs
Men's/Women's
Graphite Driver
45"/44"
Steel Driver
44"/43"
3 wood
43"/42"
5 wood
42"/41"
7 wood
41"/40"
3 iron
39"/38"
4 iron
38.5"/37.5"
5 iron
38"/37"
6 iron
37.5"/36.5"
7 iron
37"/36"
8 iron
36.5"/35.5"
9 iron
36"/35"
PW
36"/35"
SW
36"/35"
Although this has been an accepted method for years, the golfer is forced to adjust setup / address position for each club in the bag.
True Length Technology™ on the other hand, will use a club length the best fits your address position and increases based on a mathematical calculation to give you the same address position regardless of which club that you have in your hands.
One common hand position, relative to a perfectly math modeled length and lie will result in:
- A very repeatable athletic address position
- A very repeatable swing pattern
- More on center hits
- Less fat shots
- Less thin shots
- Improved feel and playability
- Less physical stress on the body
- Final result - Improved scoring.
What is True Frequency Technology ™
Frequency matching is a term quite often used by club builders so lets start with a basic understanding of Frequency as it relates to golf clubs.
Frequency - Measured with specialized equipment in Cycles Per Minute (CPM) relative to a known beam length.
Butt Frequency - Clamped at the end of the thickest section or grip end. This is the stiffest portion of the shaft and is primarily related to the players swing speed. A faster swing speed would benefit from a stiffer butt section.
Mid Frequency - Reclamped in the mid section or zone. This section is primarily related to the Players Tempo. A quicker Tempo would benefit from a stiffer mid section.
Tip Frequency - Reclamped again only in the tip section (short beam length). This section is primarily related to the Release. The later the Release the stiffer the tip section should be.
True Frequency Technology ™ - is a high level Shaft Sorting Program we use, aimed at simplifying, finding and defining the 'Overall Frequency' of a full set of RAW shafts. Data is compiled in 5" increments for up to 13 shafts (a complete set). Butt frequency tells such a small part of the story.
The TFT Sort Engine automatically averages, sorts and assigns the Stiffest overall shaft profile to the longest club. This allows the overall weakest shaft to be tipped the most - stiffening it to the greatest degree. Sorted graphs display each increment and its associated Frequency - but the Overall Average is what determines the True Flex.
This is true Frequency Matching!
Most club builders will only use the Butt Frequency to build your set of clubs, this is good, but really does not tell the whole story of the shafts relative stiffness or how it will actually play.
For the complete True Length Technology™ story visit the inventor at
Dan’s Custom Golf ShopTrue Length Technology™ and
True Frequency Technology TM
are Registered Trademarks of Dan’s Custom Golf Shop
