Hybrid & gap club fitting
Sixty minutes, $115. This session is less about which hybrid you buy and more about answering a question most golfers have never been asked: how many clubs actually belong in the middle of your bag?
Find the hole first
Before we look at a single head, we map what you carry from your longest reliable iron up to your shortest wood. Almost always there is either a hole of thirty yards nobody noticed, or two clubs sitting eight yards apart doing the same job.
That map is the session. Once it exists, the hardware question mostly answers itself — you need one club here, or two, at these lofts, and the fitting narrows to weight, length, and profile.
Hybrid, driving iron, or lofted wood
Three different tools for roughly the same distance, and they behave nothing alike.
- Hybrid. Highest launch and the most forgiving from rough. Comes out hot and left for golfers with active hands, which is the main reason people say they "can't hit hybrids." That is usually a weight and length problem, not a category problem.
- Driving iron. Lower, more controllable in wind, far less forgiving. Suits faster swings and firm conditions. A poor fit for most of the golfers who buy one.
- Lofted fairway wood. Easiest to launch off the deck, largest sweet spot, hardest to control out of thick lies. Often the best answer for slower swing speeds and rarely the one people ask for.
We keep all three on hand and let the mat decide.
Why your hybrid goes left
Hybrid shafts are commonly built lighter and longer than the iron they replace, and many heads carry draw bias from the factory. Put those together and a golfer who releases the club normally hooks it. Shorten it, add a little weight, and remove the bias — and the club that was unplayable becomes the most reliable one in the bag.
Matching to the set, or not
Manufacturers sell hybrid shafts intended to blend with iron sets. Sometimes that blending is right. Often the correct hybrid shaft is heavier and shorter than the matching option, because you are replacing an iron and should be able to swing it like one.
Nothing here is required to match. If the best five hybrid for you comes from a different maker than your irons, that is what goes on the sheet.
Long irons and honesty
If you carry a four iron and hit it well, keep it. If you carry a four iron and cannot remember the last time it did what you wanted, the honest reading is that you are carrying dead weight. Plenty of sessions end with a golfer removing two long irons and adding one hybrid, which is a cheaper outcome than most people expect walking in.
Book a hybrid session
Sixty minutes, $115. Often worth pairing with an iron session so the gapping is solved as one system.