Single club
Same day, most of the time
If the head and shaft are on the rack, you take it home. Epoxy cure means we ask you not to hit it hard for twenty four hours, which everybody ignores and mostly gets away with.
Running order
What Happens Between Arriving And Leaving
A full ladder session runs about two and a half hours. Roughly forty minutes of that is indoors, seventy is outdoors on the plot, and the rest is bench time and paperwork. Here is the order, because knowing it in advance makes the session shorter and better.
Stage one
The Bag Comes Out Of The Car First
Before you swing anything we go through what you already own. Every club gets measured for length, lie, loft and swingweight, and the grips get looked at. This takes about fifteen minutes and it routinely changes the plan for the day.
Roughly one visit in five ends here, or close to it. A set that has drifted two degrees flat over six seasons does not need replacing, it needs bending, and finding that out costs you a bend charge instead of a set. We would rather establish that in the first quarter hour than after you have hit two hundred balls.
| Measured | Typical drift we find |
|---|---|
| Lie angle | One to two degrees flat on forged irons after four or more seasons |
| Loft | Gaps closing at the short end, usually the pitching and gap wedge |
| Length | Half inch variance across a set that was assembled in a hurry |
| Swingweight | Two or three points light after a regrip to a heavier model |
| Grip condition | Glazed on the lead hand, which quietly changes how hard you hold on |
Stage two
Indoors For The Baseline, Not The Verdict
You hit your own clubs into the net with the monitor running. This is the only part of the day that resembles a conventional fitting, and it exists purely to establish a stable reference: your delivery, your speed band, your strike pattern, your miss.
We mark the face with foot spray so strike location is recorded rather than guessed. Fifteen swings with a mid iron, ten with whatever club the session is about, and that is the baseline. No decisions are made from it. It is the zero on the scale.
Why the baseline is indoors
Wind, glare and heat move numbers around, and this valley supplies all three. Anchoring the reference indoors means that when a rung two reading comes back four percent down, we know that four percent belongs to the ground and not to a gust.
Stage three
Out The Door And Onto The Ladder
This is the part nobody else in the county does, and it is why the session is long. Candidate heads and shafts get carried outside and hit off each of the four patches in sequence.
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Blocks of five, never singles
Each club gets five swings per rung. Single shots are noise. Five is enough to see a pattern and few enough that fatigue does not start writing the results by the time you reach the last candidate.
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Same order, every time
Mown turf, then bare ground, then collar, then settled rough. Always that order. Reversing it changes the numbers, because you arrive at the hardest surface tired rather than fresh, and comparability across sessions matters more than variety.
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Entry marks get read, not just numbers
Nayeli walks out after each block and looks at where the sole first touched and how long the mark is. A club with identical launch data to another can leave a completely different scar, and the scar predicts the bad days.
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Two survivors, then a head to head
The field gets cut to two after the first pass. Those two go back through rungs two and four only, alternating, until one of them clearly holds up better. If neither does, we say so and you keep what you have.
Stage four
The Bench, While You Watch
Whatever won gets built at the vice in front of you where practical. Shaft cut and tipped to the number we settled on, ferrule turned, epoxy mixed, grip installed at the tape count that matched your hand, swingweight checked against the target rather than assumed.
Full sets are a different matter: they get built over the following week or two depending on component lead times, and you come back for a thirty minute confirmation block on rungs one and four. That block is included and is not an upsell.
Full set
Seven to fourteen days
Ordered to spec, built in one run so the whole set shares a single set of tolerances rather than being assembled piecemeal over a month.
What you take away
A Card, Not A Login
Every session ends with a printed ladder card. Front side: the three readings across four rungs for the club that won and the club that came second. Reverse: raw block averages, the strike map, the entry notes, and the exact build specification down to the tip trim and tape count.
There is no portal, no app, and no account to create. If you lose the card, call and we will print another from the file, because the file lives here.