OT : Ever get fitted for Golf Clubs?

The most important question a good club fitter will ask you before the fitting is: are you working on your game with an instructor? Basically, the fitter should discuss with you whether he's going to fit you for where your swing is today, or where you want it to be in the future. If it's where you are today, and you have some definite flaws, those clubs are going to be an impediment to you improving your swing -- they can become a straight jacket, if you will. Similarly, if you get clubs fit for where you plan on being after you put some serious work in on your swing, but then don't for what ever reason, those clubs won't help you in the least. It's a tough proposition to get right, and one that in my experience, most fitters do not take into account -- they want to sell clubs! Club manufactures are selling straight jackets, even when "custom fit" and in many cases virtually ensuring that their customers never improve. Then, in a year or so, they hit you with another technological advance that is the best ever, and everyone goes rushing out to get it. The problem is similar to learning to ride a bike with training wheels -- you can't learn real balance until you take time off. You can't learn how to properly strike a golf shot with a ridiculously light, upright, and forgiving golf club. My advice to you, if you really want to learn the game and improve, is go to a store that sells vintage clubs and buy yourself a set old blade irons, then have the lie angles bent about 3 degrees flat. Depending upon how old they are they're going to be 2 degree flatter than today's "standard" anyway, the lofts will weaker, and they'll be much heavier than what you'll find today. Club manufacturers today build long, strong, offset, upright, super forgiving, light clubs because most everyone slices. Unfortunately, those "training wheels" they build in to help slicers virtually ensure that most will keep on slicing because if they ever make a swing that won't produce a slice it'll likely be a dumpy pull hook. "Game improvement" clubs should be called what they are, straight jackets! Take those vintage irons and practice with them until you can hit good shots. If you're taking a lesson and the pro tries to sell you some new clubs, tell him or her that there were your grandfather's clubs and it means a great deal to you that you play with them. They feedback you'll get from the blade will actually help accelerate your learning, and the flat lie angle will teach you to not stand the handle up and approach the ball shallow and from inside. Now, if you don't want to work on your swing then go get fit for a set of new clubs -- but understand you'll only see improvement over your old clubs if they weren't fit for your particular set of swing flaws, and your new ones are. Also, as I said, don't expect to be able to make improvements to your swing and have those new clubs work well for you. $.02 from someone who formerly was a tournament professional, a professional caddie, a custom fitter/RP for Adams Golf, and is a current avid competitive amateur and a died in the wool golf club technophile. OP, I'd me more than happy to answer any questions you might have.