[chemboy2]

I'm watching the Golf Channel's WITB spotlight on Dick's Sporting Goods and they are showing a "fitting" in the launch monitor and I'm just blown away by what I'm seeing!

They keep showing this customer's swing stats as they go through the fitting and I just don't understand what they're doing. This guy is putting up ball speed numbers in and around 150mph with launch angles between 8* and 13* and they want to fit him with a stiffer, lower launching shaft in a 9.5* head (he started with a 10.5*)!

I don't claim to be an expert but I'd like to think that I have half a clue. I can see going to a stiffer shaft as that ball speed is kind of on the cusp between reg and stiff flex (plus he was missing left - couldn't tell if it was a hook or not though) but shouldn't launch angle be somewhere around 13-16*. There were more single digit launch angles than 10-13 on the few screenshots they threw up so I would think they would have wanted this guy to keep the 10.5* and try a higher launching shaft.

Am I off base here?