Driver
Head, loft, length, weighting and shaft, judged on where the face is meeting the ball before anything else. The club most distorted by an enclosed bay, so the offset matters most here.
What we look at →Eight things happen in this building. Six of them are club-specific bay sessions, one is a whole-bag review, and one is bench work that needs no session at all. Nothing is bundled into a package with a name, because packages tend to sell people a putter appointment they did not want.
| Appointment | Length | Leaves With |
|---|---|---|
| Single-club bay session | 90 minutes | Build slip plus an offset card |
| Two-club bay session | 2 hours | Build slip plus an offset card |
| Whole-bag review | 3 hours, splittable | Gauge sheet, gap ladder, priority list |
| Putter bay session | 60 minutes | Build slip, no offset card needed |
| Gauge-only appointment | 30 minutes | Gauge sheet on your current set |
| Audit day seat, April to September | 2 hours outdoors | A personal offset table |
| Bench work, no session | Drop off | Work order with before and after figures |
| Second-opinion read | 45 minutes | Written notes on someone else's spec |
Almost nobody arrives with a general complaint. They arrive because the driver goes right, or the six iron will not hold a green, or the fifty-six is digging. Booking by club keeps the ninety minutes pointed at the thing that actually brought you here.
Head, loft, length, weighting and shaft, judged on where the face is meeting the ball before anything else. The club most distorted by an enclosed bay, so the offset matters most here.
What we look at →Sole shape against wet Valley turf, plus a length conversation most golfers have never had. Distance is the least interesting number in this session.
What we look at →Where the long irons stop paying rent. Descent angle drives this decision, and descent angle is exactly the figure the bay has to model rather than see.
What we look at →Lie, length, shaft weight and the spacing between clubs, fitted as a ladder. Face tape on every strike, because an average built from three toe hits is not an average.
What we look at →Bounce and grind chosen against the turf you meet in the months you actually play, with a candid account of how little a mat can tell us about either.
What we look at →Length, lie, loft, balance and start line on a flat indoor surface. The only category where being indoors is a straightforward advantage rather than a compromise.
What we look at →Three hours, and you may split it across two visits without paying twice. It starts with every club on the gauges and ends with a ranked list of what is worth spending money on. Frequently the list says something inconvenient, like your irons are fine and your wedges are four seasons past their groove life.
The review is not a fitting for fourteen clubs. It is a diagnosis of where the set is failing you, followed by an argument about which two or three fixes will move your scoring. People who book it usually leave having spent less than they expected.
Rates for the review →From April through September we run Sunday blocks on grass. These exist to keep the offset table honest, and we sell a limited number of seats to clients who want their own correction rather than the pooled one printed on the studio card.
You hit your own clubs, with your own ball, in the bay and then outdoors inside the same week. Both sets of numbers go into the sheet together. What you get back is a table that says how far your personal bay figures sit from your personal turf figures, club by club.
How the pairing works →Plenty of what improves a golf bag needs no bay time at all. Regripping, loft and lie correction, shaft replacement, length changes, ferrule repair and swing weight adjustment are all drop-off jobs. Every one of them comes back with the measured figure before and the measured figure after.
We work on clubs regardless of where they were bought. The only jobs we decline are heads with a compromised hosel or a visible crack, because neither survives being heated.
What sits on the rack →A short list is more useful than a long one. If you need any of the following, we will happily point you somewhere in Lane County rather than pretend we cover it.
| Gauges on your current club | 15 min |
|---|---|
| Warm-up, held out of averages | 12 min |
| Baseline block | 10 min |
| Variable testing | 38 min |
| Confirmation block | 10 min |
| Paperwork and offset card | 5 min |
Tell us which club is bothering you and roughly when you can get to Chad Drive. We reply with two or three slots and a note about what to bring.