Eight Ways to Spend Time in the Bay

When the Problem Sits Between Clubs Rather Than Inside One

Top of the Bag

Driver, fairway woods and hybrids in one two-hour block. This exists because the long end of a bag is almost never broken one club at a time. The usual pattern is a driver that is fine, a three-wood that goes the same distance as the driver on a bad drive, and a five-wood nobody has hit since March.

Handled together, the question stops being "is this three-wood any good" and becomes "how many clubs do I need between the driver and the longest iron I actually trust." For a lot of golfers here the honest answer is one, not three, and the two slots that frees up go somewhere far more useful.

We finish this session by writing the carry band each long club covers, in all three elevation columns, and marking the overlaps in red. If two clubs share a band, one of them is dead weight.

The Full Ledger

Every club you carry, across two appointments about a week apart, four hours of bay time in total. The gap between visits is deliberate: you go and play a round with the first visit's findings, and you come back with real observations rather than range impressions.

Visit one covers the scoring end — wedges, short irons, putter — because that is where most strokes actually live and because it is the half people usually skip. Visit two handles the long clubs and reconciles the whole set into one continuous ladder of carry bands with no holes and no doubles.

It is the most expensive thing we sell and the one we most often talk people out of. If you have owned your irons for under two years and they were fitted properly, a full ledger is overkill. Book a single session and spend the difference on green fees.