What the Two Hours Actually Look Like

Before You Arrive

When a booking comes in, Anneliese asks three questions: what shot bothers you, what you already suspect is wrong, and roughly how often you play. Nothing about handicap, because it is a poor predictor of what a bag needs.

That answer decides which bench you land on and how the two hours get carved up. A player who says "I lose it right off the tee" gets a different plan from one who says "I cannot stop a wedge on a firm green in July."

Block One — Cold Measurement

Nothing is hit for the first fifteen minutes. Your clubs go on the bench and get measured as they sit: loft, lie, length, swingweight, grip diameter, face condition and shaft frequency where it matters. Everything gets written on the card before any opinion is formed.

This block finds more problems than most players expect. Sets drift. A wedge that has been bent twice is not the loft on the sole any more. A grip worn thin on one side has quietly changed how the club sits.

Block Two — Your Own Clubs, No Changes

You warm up as long as you like, and none of it is recorded. Once the pattern stops wandering we start keeping shots, and we keep enough of them that the median means something — usually eight to twelve per club.

What we care about here is not the best one. It is the middle and the spread. A player whose carry ranges over twenty yards needs a different fix from one whose carry is tight but eight yards short, and those two look identical if you only record the good swings.

Block Three — One Variable at a Time

This is the slow part and it is where the session earns its fee. We change exactly one thing, gather the same number of shots, and compare against the baseline. Then we change it back and change something else.

Head first if head is in question, then shaft, then length, then lie, then weight. Testing a new head on a new shaft at a new length tells you that the combination is better and nothing about which part did it — and next season, when you want to replace one piece, you are stuck.

Block Four — Correcting the Numbers

Every figure gathered indoors or on a hot afternoon gets adjusted before it goes on the card. Anneliese logs temperature and barometric pressure at the start and end of the session, and the density altitude that comes out of it is what the correction runs against.

You get both columns: what the monitor said, and what it means for a ball flying through Albuquerque air on a normal day. Anyone who quotes you one number without saying which is which is guessing.

Block Five — The Card

Filled in by hand while you watch, photographed, and emailed before you leave the lot. It lists what changed, what did not, what we recommend ordering, and what we specifically advise against.

If the right answer is that your clubs are fine, the card says so in plain language and the session ends early. That happens often enough that we schedule for it.