Max Gulledge is a certified member of the Professional Clubfitting Society.

Max Gulledge, owner of Pro Golf Discount, invites all golfers, from beginners to pros, to precision fit your club to your swing.

“Our job is to find you a better club than your old one,” said Max Gulledge. “I use our swing analyzer and other shop toolings to give my customers the most accurate and technically fitting possible.”

Max Gulledge is a Class A clubmaker of the PCS, Profession Clubmakers Society, an international society. Gulledge is one of the few 560 Class A clubmakers in the nation. The organization consists of rigorous standards that are sanctioned by the PGA. His first store was located in Irmo, but he needed room to expand and moved to O’Neil Court in the Northeast area.

Steve Hobson, sales associate at Pro Golf Discount, demonstrates the golf assimulator. What’s involved with a precision swing club fitting? A golfer, using his present golf club, hits into a full screen assimilator on a projected golf screen. The assimilator is an instrument, a fitting tool, loaded with 480 lasers, that provides an indoor driving range or course setting that measures the golfer’s carry distance, roll–out speed distance, ball speed, launching angle, and ball spin. The clubmaker uses this information to calculate the fittings for the golfer’s individual club. Gulledge then assembles the formula of selected club head, shaft, and grip.

“Most people come in looking for a new driver or iron,” Gulledge said. “But I also do putter fittings.”

There are many factors to consider when it comes to fitting a golfer with the right putter. To determine the length and lie angle the putter, the clubmaker must consider the player’s height and posture. Loft, style of putter, and swing weight are also factors to be considered. A properly fitted putter could improve a golfer’s success on the greens.

Golfers now live in an environment of materials and manufacturing advancement. Precision insights and innovations realized through computers and very fast shutter speeds provide a path for the clubmaker’s prescription golf.