Tom Wishon the Father of American Clubfitting.
Tom Wishon, the Father of American Clubfitting.
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After reading Tom Wishons' book "In search of the perfect club," I finally understood how complicated club fitting is. In the time that I was a club pro in South Africa ( from 1966 to 1983), club fitting was taking to take a student out on the range and let him hit a few balls and saying, "You need an "R" Shaft and a D2 Swingweight. If the student were very tall, I would say, "Let's add an inch" That was as technical as I ever got. Today's club fitters use sophisticated technology to measure club head speed, toe down, kick factor, smash factor, ball spin, and launch angle, to name a few of the measurements. Here is an insight into the Father of American Clubfitting, Tom Wishon, presented by golfdashblog.com
Tom Wishon.
This months not so “Quick 9? is with master clubmaker, Tom Wishon.
Tom likes to discuss club design, golf club myths, getting properly fit, future technology and much more.
You’ll learn a ton. I promise. I’m so thankful to Tom for agreeing to do is. And put this important (and often VERY misunderstood) information out there for you. First: Who exactly is Tom Wishon?
With more than 35 years of experience in the field, Tom Wishon Golf Technology is recognized as one of the industry leaders in the research of golf club design, performance and clubfitting technology.
R & D.
Our R&D has been at the forefront of the golf industry. Including the development of more than 50 golf club design technology firsts.
As well as countless discoveries in the science of golf club performance for golfers. Having begun his golf equipment career in 1972, Tom Wishon has designed over 300 original and innovative clubhead models.
More than any other single person in the 500 year history of the game. His clubhead designs represent more than 50 different technology firsts.
Tom Wishon is the only designer from the custom clubmaking side of the golf industry whose clubhead designs are used to win on the PGA Tour, the Champions Senior Tour and in Ryder Cup competition.
Clients.
He has designed and custom built the golf clubs used in competition by Scott Verplank, Bruce Lietzke, Ben Crenshaw. As well as the last set of clubs played by Payne Stewart before his tragic accident in 1999.
Tom is the also the author of 9 books within the field of golf club design, performance and clubfitting. In addition to hundreds of equipment related articles written for virtually every golf publication in the golf industry.
As Terry McSweeney, Director of Communications for the PGA of America states, “Tom has the unique ability to communicate technical issues about golf equipment so non-technically minded people can easily understand and follow the subject”
Books.
Two of Wishon’s books, The Search for the Perfect Golf Club and The Search for the Perfect Driver qualified for best-selling status. And won successive Book of the Year awards in 2006 and 2007 from the International Network of Golf.
He is the ‘go-to guy’ by the equipment editors. Many of the major consumer golf publications in their search for honest, marketing-free explanations about the technical performance of golf clubs. Jim Achenbach, equipment editory for Golfweek magazine has said, “Tom is the smartest person in the golf industry when it comes to golf clubs.”
Tom Wishon Golf Technology.
As Tom stated in making his decision to establish his own company in 2003. “I completely respect the product design work of the large golf equipment companies. But my three decades in golf club R&D has proven without question that the best set of golf clubs any golfer will ever play will be a set of professionally custom fit golf clubs, and not a set of standard made clubs simply bought off the shelf.
I am committed to educating golfers about the tangible, game improvement benefits of a professionally custom fit set of clubs. Because I know this is the only way any golfer can hope to play to the best of their ability. And benefit the most from swing instruction.”
Source: golfdashblog.com Mel Sole Golf School.
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Thanks for reading - Tom Wishon, the Father of American Clubfitting. I hope you learned as much as I did on this subject!
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