405: Fred Get's Fitted for New Clubs with Nick Manzano of The Golf Mart

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2013

⏱️ 90 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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For Members Only #405 - Despite strict USGA guidelines, not all golf clubs perform the same. Golf Professionals play with sticks that are meticulously tailored to their swing. Amateur golfers make purchases based on what the Pros play. No matter their skill level, few golfers take advantage of being fitted for clubs that compliment their swing style. GolfSmarter Podcast host Fred Greene is in the market for a new Driver, fairway driver, and hybrids and was amazed to learn how different each club performs for his swing. During the 90 minute session, join Fred to learn why club head speed, launch angle, spin rate, dispersion are important, and that some older models suit him better than “the newest and the greatest”. **Note: The beep is when Nick mentioned a price that may not be available everywhere.For this Members Only episode, Fred set up his video gear to record his fitting session with custom club fitter Nick Manzano of The Golf Mart in San Rafael, CA (also featured in episodes #394 & 395). The video, now available in our YouTube/GolfSmarterTV channel, is only a portion of the session, but the podcast episode is the entire fitting.For exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	For members only, Golf Smarter Number 405, published on October 8, 2013, is brought to you by the all-new Golf Smarter app and GolfSmartter.com.
0:11.6	SmarterPodcasts.com.
0:14.8	Delivering sound advice.
0:18.2	Come on and join me as I get fitted for new clubs with club fitter Nick Munzano.
0:22.6	This is Golf Smarter.
0:24.6	You can walk into a department store and buy a coat off the rack, and it may fit you well because you kind of know your size.
0:32.6	But if you were to walk in that department store and get an expert to help you, to measure you, to make it fit for you, to custom fit it for you, but it's still a department store,
0:44.1	you're going to feel a lot better about it, you're going to be more confident, and people
0:47.6	are going to comment on it.
0:49.3	That's kind of the way it works with golf too.
0:51.5	You can walk into any store and look at all the clubs they have, know
0:55.8	what your friend has, and purchase one. Or you can have an expert at that store help you out.
1:01.9	And that's what I'm going to do today. I'm here at the Golf Mart in San Rafael, California,
1:06.0	and I'm with one of the half dozen club fitters they have here at the golf mart and this is Nick
1:12.0	Manzano and Nick why is it important for us to be fitted for golf clubs?
1:19.1	It's you know it's not important for everybody but for people who want to better
1:25.1	their games and to make it more enjoyable and have more fun out there.
1:31.3	You know, sometimes it's the archer and sometimes it's the arrow.
1:34.0	And tailoring a golf club to somebody's swing and abilities is very important if you want to
1:39.7	progress with the game.
1:41.2	And what is the process of getting fitted?
1:50.0	Would start out with an interview and some kind of discussion and background as to what the person's experience is and what their attitudes are towards certain brands or certain clubs
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