The Golf Station | The reason for the Notch

PING’s commitment to fitting you for a set of custom-built clubs and allowing you to maintain that ‘fit’ over time, can be found in the notch they have designed into their hosels. That notch allows your lie angles to be more easily changed as your swing evolves and develops.

The PING Color Code Chart can recommend a club length and lie angle based on your physical specifications.

PING introduced the color code chart for lie angle and club length over half a century ago.

Despite all the latest advanced technology, getting this right in your fitting is still the best platform for better ball contact.

But it’s the DYNAMIC lie angle at impact that matters. If you deliver the clubface back with toe raised and heel down, you are likely to close the clubface and have your ball travel left of the target.

When fitting you for clubs, we need to ensure the shaft length and lie angle combination allow you to return the clubface to the ball with the sole square to the turf.