Comments on: TaylorMade Performance Lab at Grand Cypress

By: John

John — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 03:26:29 +0000

Dave

I had a great experience today with travis at the taylor made fitting lab. I have had fitted clubs since 1992 and have been through multiple fittings since and this session definitly topped them all. I am a plus 1 handicap and even though I really wanted a new driver, Travis talked me out of it. This showed me that he wasn’t there just to sell equipment, he really cared about your game.

The best part was putting on all the sensors and seeing myself in 3d. When compared to tour players, directly over my own image, I could clearly see where some of my faults were. Travis gave me a few things to work on and I did end up buying a few irons.

I will go back after I have had a chance to work on a few things.

Overall I would recommend this to golfers of all skill levels!

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:44:06 +0000

I’m looking forward to hearing about your experience John!

By: John

John — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:04:20 +0000

Dave, I am going for a fitting today at noon because I saw your blog. I am looking forward to it and will report back after I am done

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:40:00 +0000

Hi Dave. Hope you’re hitting it well with those new clubs. I’m an industrial designer located in Finland, so I’m a long way away from Orlando to experience the session myself. I am however, designing for a company with similar technology, and I’m benchmarking experiences like these: custom fitting and swing analysis session. I’m interested in the interaction itself, with the instructor, and how the whole room, scene and experience path from entering the building to leaving is branded. The vault door is an impressive feature, as it clearly was on you, but apart from that, what else stood out? I’ve found some pictures elsewhere, but if you (or anybody else reading this) would just like to walk me through the actual experience, that would be awesome.

By: joe walker

joe walker — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:30:53 +0000

Dave-
Ater reading your review, I couldn’t resist setting an appointment. Hitting a driver is my biggest challenge and am looking forward to the insight and knowledge Travis will share. I will update you after the fitting

By: Summer

Summer — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:44:40 +0000

John Duval, you think someone “ripped off” Dave’s story? Seriously? Someone else visited another Taylormade lab and wrote about it. What makes you think Dave has a monopoly on doing this? Don’t you think Taylormade offered free sessions to bloggers for all of its lab facilities so just what could happen would happen? Dig a little deeper next time, dude.

P.S. “Merely” is the correct spelling. Your other errors are so elementary they’re not worth addressing.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:35:27 +0000

After reading this I decided to set up a session with Travis. I was in the market for clubs and liked what I was hearing regarding the Burner 09 irons. The session was a blast. Travis was a pleasure to work with and he gave a lot of great tips and really spent the time breaking down my swing in the lab. It was really cool watching my swing superimposed with Sergio Garcia and other pro golfers. The biggest thing I learned is the pro golfers do a lot more with their hips and they are apparently a lot more flexible than I am. Yes, they recommend Taylor Made clubs but you can take the information they give you and apply it across the board. They give recommendations on every club in your bag as well as what type of ball you should play. The swing analysis alone was well worth the money for me.

By: JoLo

JoLo — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:39:36 +0000

How about shaft data?

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:14:51 +0000

Do they only recommend Taylor Made clubs? I believe that would really limit your options if that was the case.

By: Roger

Roger — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:01:35 +0000

Hi Dave,

I went to see Travis when I was in Orlando last year and have been playing with my new clubs for about a year now. I was just as impressed as you with the whole process and Travis’s knowledge of the golf swing. One thing you didn’t mention was Travis’s ability to superimpose your swing over that of PGA Tour pros. It really gave me the insight as to what I was doing wrong and what the pros do to generate power. I couldn’t agree with you more that TMPL offers a great service that any golfer could benefit from. Enjoy those new clubs!