Gap Filler Session
Seventy-five minutes spent on the part of the bag where sets most often fall apart: the yardages between your longest comfortable iron and your shortest usable wood.
Measure the Gap Before Choosing the Club
Almost nobody arrives knowing how wide their gap actually is. They know they have one, because there is a yardage on the course they dread, but the number is a guess. So we begin by measuring carry distance for every club from the 6-iron up, on grass, with enough repetitions that a single flushed shot cannot distort the average.
The gaps that come out of that exercise are routinely thirty yards or more, and they are almost always in a different place than the player expected. We have had people book this session convinced they needed a 4-hybrid and leave with a 7-wood, because the hole was higher in the bag than they thought.
Only once the gap has a number attached do we start putting clubs in your hands.
How We Actually Choose Between Them
Turf entry comes first
Whichever club enters the turf most consistently for you wins the argument before any other consideration. A long iron demands a shallow, precise low point; if yours moves around by two inches from swing to swing, the long iron will punish that variance more than a hybrid or a wood will. We measure the variance on grass and let it decide.
Descent angle second
The club exists to hold a green from a long way out, or at least to stop somewhere useful. A shot arriving at thirty-five degrees stops. A shot arriving at twenty-two degrees releases forty yards into whatever is behind the green. If your long iron produces the second number, adding distance to it is solving the wrong problem.
Rough performance third
Central Florida rough is Bermuda, which grabs the hosel and shuts the face. A hybrid's shorter, thicker hosel and lower centre of gravity survive that better than a long iron does. If your home course has genuinely thick rough this consideration climbs the list quickly.
Looks last, and only as a tiebreaker
We are not going to pretend confidence at address is irrelevant. If two options test within a couple of yards of each other and you hate looking at one of them, take the other. But confidence is the tiebreaker, not the criterion, and we will make you look at the numbers first.
Once the Category Is Settled
Loft
Chosen to land in the middle of the measured gap, not to match a number stamped on the club you are replacing.
Length
Usually shorter than stock. Hybrids ship long and most players control them better half an inch down.
Shaft weight
Bridged between your iron shafts and your wood shafts so the club does not feel foreign in a sequence.
Lie angle
Adjustable on most modern hybrids and routinely ignored. It is the reason many hybrids go left.
Seventy-Five Minutes, $140
Includes the carry gapping map for your whole bag, which is worth having even if you decide to change nothing at the top end.