09/08/2026
Over the years, one thing has become more and more obvious to me: you can’t really separate the golfer, the swing, and the equipment.
I see it all the time in the shop.
Someone comes in thinking they need new clubs, and sometimes the biggest thing holding them back is actually in the swing. Someone comes in for a lesson, and we find that they’re making compensations because of the equipment in their hands. Other times, neither one is necessarily “wrong” — they just don’t work well together.
That’s a big part of why I wanted to start writing this series.
Instead of doing random golf articles every week, I wanted to start putting down some of the conversations I have every day during lessons and fittings — and go deeper into how the swing, fitting, club design, building, and the golfer themselves all affect each other.
Because my goal has never been to sell someone a new club just because they walked in for a fitting. And it isn’t to change someone’s swing just because they booked a lesson.
The goal is to figure out what is actually keeping that golfer from playing better.
Sometimes that means changing the swing.
Sometimes it means changing the equipment.
Sometimes it means changing both.
And sometimes the best answer is to leave something completely alone.
That’s what this series is really about.
We’ve already started digging into fitting and instruction, how equipment can create swing compensations, how we determine whether the club or the swing is causing a problem, and why things like shaft flex are much more complicated than the letter printed on the shaft.
And we’re just getting started.
If you’ve ever wondered why we do things a little differently at Just a Potamus Golf, this series probably explains it better than anything else I could post here.
Read the series here:
https://www.justapotamusgolf.com/blogs/news
Lessons • Fitting • Building
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