Twelve Things People Ask Before Booking

No, and roughly a quarter of visits end with a recommendation to keep what you have. Nobody here earns anything on what you purchase, so the fee is the same either way and so is the advice.

Because Albuquerque sits around 5,312 feet and the air is thin enough to change what every launch monitor number means. Carry stretches, spin holds the ball up less, and the top of a set converges. A spec fitted from uncorrected numbers will gap badly on the course, which is a mistake this bench made in its first year and has been careful about ever since.

It is the opposite. New players are the group most often handed equipment that is the wrong length and lie, and they then build a swing around compensating for it. A short iron session early is cheaper than several years of ingrained corrections.

The whole bag as it stands, including clubs you dislike or have stopped using. Also the shoes you play in, the ball you actually use, and your worn-in glove. Nothing needs cleaning; we measure everything cold before a shot is hit.

No. The first block of every session is measurement with nothing hit, and the warm-up that follows is deliberately not recorded. Arriving cold is fine and arriving tired from a round beforehand is not ideal.

Outdoors on the grass strip whenever the weather permits, particularly for wedges, irons and fairway woods where turf interaction is the point. If we have to work indoors, the card records that, and you are welcome to come back for a short confirmation pass on grass at no charge.

Two to three weeks through spring and early summer, less in the middle of winter. Bench work such as regripping and loft and lie usually takes walk-ins Tuesday through Friday without an appointment.

Yes, including components you supply yourself. Labour rates are published on the rates page. The one thing we will not build is a counterfeit head, because it cannot be assembled to any repeatable specification.

No. Groove sharpening removes material unevenly, frequently pushes a club outside conforming tolerance, and the edge it creates wears back off within a handful of rounds. If a face is finished we will say so and grade it, and if it has life left we will say that instead.

A single printed record filled in during your session: raw and altitude-corrected carry medians, dispersion, strike maps, sole prints, face crest grades, and full build specs for anything ordered. You get the paper copy and an emailed scan. It exists so a decision can be re-examined later rather than half-remembered.

Components typically arrive in seven to ten days. Builds are executed on Mondays and released Tuesday after being re-measured against your card. Simple bench jobs such as regripping are usually done while you wait.

Yes, at half the session fee, and we will be blunt about growth. A junior set fitted to the inch will be wrong within a season, so we fit for the coming twelve months and note on the card when to come back rather than pretending otherwise.