St. André Golf’s makeover sends Robby home with five- and seven-woods

Robby tells the fitter that he can hit his three-wood a long way when he catches it, but that a good strike comes only about three times in ten. The answer in St. André Golf’s October 14 makeover video is to try a different part of the bag: five- and seven-woods.

The PGA TOUR Superstore visit mixes a club fitting with the group’s usual jokes, an apparel overhaul and new shoes. The useful golf begins in the hitting bay, where fitter Michael compares Robby’s existing equipment with alternatives and works through different heads and shafts.

For the driver, Michael works through different heads before looking more closely at shafts. He reports that ball speed has risen from an average of roughly 144 mph with Robby’s existing RBZ to 157 mph in the new testing. The video supplies that comparison from this session; it does not establish how much distance or accuracy Robby will gain on the course.

The fairway-wood discussion is more revealing. Michael identifies a regular-flex shaft in the old club and says it is too soft for Robby’s swing. He proposes changing flex and moving out of a three-wood if getting it airborne remains a problem.

Robby soon responds to the five-wood. At the end of the fitting, Michael lists PING G440 Max five- and seven-woods with 75-gram stiff shafts. The driver is a Titleist GTS3, while the irons are Mizuno JPX Forged. The fitting leaves him with clubs from three manufacturers.

PGA TOUR Superstore’s published fitting process describes the same starting point: bring the current clubs, establish a baseline on a launch monitor, then compare heads and shafts against it. Its STUDIO guidance names ball speed, launch angle, spin and dispersion among the measurements used.

A separate October 8 fitting report by Golf Monthly’s Jess Ratcliffe describes a similar choice at the top of her bag. She found a five-wood more consistent for distance and dispersion than her three-wood or three-rescue. It is another golfer’s fitting result, reinforcing the value of testing the alternatives with the player’s own swing.

That gives viewers a practical way to read the session. A longer single shot is one result. Getting a long club into the air repeatedly, with a flight the player can use, addresses the problem Robby brought into the bay.

The makeover ends before an outdoor scoring test. His friends hope the new setup will help him break 100, but the episode does not show that result. He leaves with two higher-lofted woods after Michael identifies the shaft mismatch in his old three-wood.