Patent ID: 7195565

Claim:
An improved golf club fitting method for fitting a set of golf clubs to a player comprising the steps: measuring a player's physical dimensions at least including grip strength of the player's hand; selecting a representative golf club having a specific dead weight based on the measured grip strength of the player's hand, said dead weight being directly proportional to the player's grip strength, specifically that the dead weight of the golf club is greater when the player's grip strength is greater and vice versa; recording the club length of the representative golf club; determining the swing weight of the representative golf club; computing a balance index (BI) for the representative golf club by dividing the dead weight (DW) by the numerical value of the swing weight (SW) (DW/SW=BI); using said balance index (BI) determined for the representative golf club to determine alternatively the head heavy and head light deviation for the representative golf club; and generally corresponding balance index and dead weight values determined for said representative golf club to at least some of the other golf clubs in a set of golf clubs such that the system user can generally match different iron and wood golf clubs to the representative golf club thereby creating a generally ideal matched set of golf clubs for the player.