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To enjoy better, more consistent ball-striking, we need to ensure you’re controlling your low point with each club. The beauty is that low point can be better controlled simply by being fitted for equipment that suits your physique and swing.
Continue reading to understand how optimizing low point with properly fitted equipment improves your ball-striking, or experience it first-hand by booking a fitting with us.
For you to gain better control over your low point, it helps to gain an understanding of what it is exactly. Low point is the distance from the club head’s geometric center to the lowest point in the swing arc at the point of maximum compression. On launch monitors, it is a value expressed in inches with “A” indicating low point after impact and “B” indicating before impact.
While all golf swings are unique, golfers all share certain low point commonalities. For example, the low point when hitting a driver or fairway wood off a tee should ideally occur before impact so that an ascending strike is made on the ball.
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Conversely, a descending blow is desirable when hitting irons and wedges off the ground so that you can compress the ball sufficiently to optimise spin-rates and distance.
While these general rules apply to the vast majority of players, there is no precise low point number each player is striving for with each club. The unique nature of the golf swing means that while the optimal low point with a driver for one player may be 4.4 inches behind the ball, it may be somewhere in the region of 6 inches for Player B.
Similarly, each golfer’s physical makeup differs, so naturally the club specifications which help optimize low point will differ too.
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But what exactly does low point optimization mean? It means striking the ball in a way that does not lead to excessively high spin rates nor contact that doesn’t present the entire sweet spot to the ball. Yes, those chunked iron shots you hate or those thinned wedges just mean your low point is occurring too early in your swing to ensure clean contact.
As for that untapped driving distance potential, that’s the result of a low point that’s occurring a little too late in the swing.
Shaft flex may be the root cause of your low-point inconsistencies, perhaps it’s a little too heavy for your clubhead speed. The opposite may also be true but until we put you on a launch monitor there’s no way of saying for certain what equipment changes you need to make to optimize low point.
Finding your optimal low point with each club is one thing but the key is being able to keep it in a tight range shot after shot with that particular club. If your low point dispersions are too radical, then your distances and the quality of strikes will be far too inconsistent.
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A fitting gives us the time and freedom to assess your swing and play around with different club spec permutations and ultimately find the combo that delivers the low-point consistency needed to take your ball-striking to heights beyond your wildest dreams!
Experience ball-striking highs you never thought possible by optimizing your low point throughout the bag! Contact us about a fitting.
