Spent some time at Club Champion yesterday. They ran a promo where a full bag fitting was 100 bucks instead of 350. That I can do! I didn't want to touch my driver (had it fit last year) and wanted to keep my wedges (although I was ok with swapping shafts if it made sense).
Typical CC process though. Start with five or so wedge swings, then an 8-iron and then the 6-iron (which is where the work is done). Told my fitter that I'd like to stick Titleist but I wasn't averse to anything else if it got me consistency.
Went through 6+ heads (also snapped a titleist t200 off the shaft) and a bunch of shafts. I was leaning graphite here so thats where we focused and to be fair he put me into a number of steel shafts too but once I got into the graphite offerings there honestly was no going back. The feel was just that much better to me.
The order was - find a shaft first and then move on to heads. So once we found a shaft that felt good we then swapped heads for a while. I dont like thick top lines or chunky soles (he did give me a few of each anyways to be sure they weren't better).
When the dust settled it was the Miura CB-301 in Raijin 2.0 85 shafts at one degree upright. Those same shafts will go into my Vokey SM8s as well.
I wanted to go into a 4 hybrid afterwards. Similar process. When the dust settled it was the Titleist 24 TSi2 hybrid in a Veylix Rome 988 XS shaft.
Lastly we fit my putter to see what works. Turns out my putter is actually good for me, it just needed to be flattened a bit. I did end up rolling a bunch of putters and found a Bettinardi SS17 that beats my putter out - but not 500 dollars beats it out
So total for all of this is about 4,000 dollars. I would skip the putter so it'd be about 3500 (but I'd probably add the gap wedge in and it'd bring the price right back to about 4k).
Now I could go to
The Peoples Clubs - Tour Issue Golf Clubs at Retail Prices They'll build the exact same set (irons + hyrbid) with same shafts, specs, etc. For about 2400 (yep 1600 cheaper). Same build quality, these guys know what they're doing. For 1600 dollars less I lose the ability to walk into the store for adjustments, use of their trackman, etc.
As much as I hate to say it - Im on the fence. In my logical brain 1500 dollars should be a no brainer - like walk away. BUT I dont then have the option to resolve issues, work out different things if something isn't right, etc. That's worth SOMETHING - is it just 1500 something tho