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I invite anybody reading this to visit www.henry-griffitts.com and find out how dedicated we are to helping the student and teacher achieve their goals. Also, you might ask Lynn and Ted their opinions on HG and their views about what I demonstrate everyday as an HG fitter and TGM teacher.

...I love my HG clubs. When I was fit, I fit into a 38" 5 iron, at HG's standard lie angle. I am effectively 1 degree upright under HG's scale. I'm 6 feet tall, with monkey arms.

In May 2005, Billy McDonald, GSEB, Master Clubfitter and Chairman of Henry-Griffitts, helped me into a new set of HGs. There were no fitting charts or launch monitors, just me and him and cart full of heads and thistles. I Hit. He fit (a new Clubshaft). I Swung. He hung (a new Clubhead). We Hit and fit and Swung and hung like this for some time, and then he said...

"I think we're done."

"Why?" said I.

"Because you've hit the last fifty balls with that club."

To make a long story short, I got my new clubs a couple of days later -- when you're ready to roll with HG, they're ready to roll with you! -- and prompted by an invite from a friend, headed to the golf course. I hadn't played a round of golf in months (January 4th). I had taught and drilled and so forth in the meantime, but I am not kidding...no golf.

Results?

70.

As in two-under on a championship layout. I lost a shot coming in -- -- and I was choking like crazy into 'the house', but I somehow nailed it down.

That's the truth...and those clubs have been in my bag ever since.

So, we know two things: First, the HG Club works, and second, I had the opportunity to be fit well. There are many fine brands of golf clubs on the market today. Unfortunately, there are not so many fine fitters.

A few months ago, I found myself watching golfgnome -- Jeff Hull, GSEB, PGA, -- fitting several golfers in a Demo Day down South. What I saw, I found hard to believe. I'm watching an accountant drill shot-after-shot with his brand new, well-endorsed Driver low right, low right, low right. Jeff -- who in addition to his clubfitting and teaching talents, also happens to be the 2004 Georgia Section PGA Champion -- walks to the fitting cart, grabs a shaft and screws on a head and -- voila! -- long, high and straight. Another long, high and straight. And then one more.

Back into the accountant's hands went the first Club -- the retail customer's attempt to buy ball flight.

Low right. Low right. Low right.

And then back to Jeff's concoction: Long, high, straight. Long, high, straight.

No TGM. No hands-on coaching. No nothin'. Just a different golf club. I had never seen anything quite like it.

Until the next guy. Then, more of the same!

Anyway, the bottom line is that I invited Jeff up to Westchester, N.Y., to work this same magic with the private clients of Barclays Capital at our Barclays Classic Golf Academy. We weren't selling clubs, and our fitting specs were designed to be 'brand generic' and portable. Our objective was to get a club that fit into the hands of the student prior to his or her instruction. Did we get that job done? We didn't have the benefit of outdoor ball flight those four days, but the indoor launch monitors told the tale:

Professionally done, regardless of brand, clubfitting works.

Big time.