Drivers and fairway woods
Head loft, shaft weight and flex, and length, tested against your real launch numbers rather than the sticker on the shaft.
Read moreDowntown Naperville since 1994
Clubs that fit the person holding them.
A father-and-sons fitting shop one block from the Riverwalk. We measure you, watch you swing, and build or adjust what you actually need. Nobody gets pushed toward a sale.
- Open since
- 1994
- Fittings last year
- 712
- Clubs built here
- 3,400+
- Session length
- 45 to 90 min
A shop built on a workbench, not a showroom
Harlan Gray spent twenty-six years as a toolmaker before he turned his garage hobby into a business. He started by regripping neighbors' clubs in 1989 and opened the Washington Street shop five years later. The bench he built then is still the one Dennis works at today.
Walt joined in 1998 after a few seasons as an assistant pro, and he now runs most of the fittings. Priya Raman came on as an apprentice in 2019 and has taken over the putter work. Between the four of us we have fitted a few thousand golfers, and a surprising number of them are children of golfers we fitted in the nineties.
We keep the shop small on purpose. You get an hour or more with one fitter and a launch monitor, and you leave with numbers written on paper you can take anywhere, including to a competitor.
What we fit and fix
Four fitting sessions, a repair bench, and a short list of things we will happily tell you not to buy.
Irons
The longest session we run. Lie angle, length, shaft and gapping for every club from the 5-iron through the pitching wedge.
Read moreWedges
Bounce, grind and spacing based on the turf you play and how steeply you hit down.
Read morePutters
Length, lie and loft set to your stance, checked on a flat roll rather than a guess.
Read moreHow a visit runs
Every session follows the same four steps, whichever club we are working on.
We talk first
Ten minutes on how you play, what the misses look like, and what you have already tried.
We measure
Height, wrist-to-floor, hand size, and a look at your current clubs on the bench.
You hit, we adjust
Real swings with a launch monitor while Walt or Priya changes one thing at a time.
You leave with paper
A written spec sheet with every number. Buy here, buy elsewhere, or sleep on it.
What customers write on the way out
I walked in expecting a hard sell and left with a bag of grips and a spec sheet. Two months later I came back and had Walt build the irons. Fair prices and no games.
Priya spent forty minutes on my putter and told me my old one was almost right. She shortened it half an inch. I have been rolling it better ever since.
My dad was fitted here in 1996. I brought my son last spring. Same stool, same bench, same patience.
Where our customers come from
Most of our regulars live within twenty minutes of the shop.
- NapervilleDowntown, Naper Settlement, Knoch Knolls and the Ashbury neighborhoods
- Aurora and MontgomeryFox Valley golfers who come in after work on Thursdays
- Lisle and WarrenvilleDuPage County players who drive in for the irons session
- Plainfield and BolingbrookSouth-side players who book Saturday mornings
From the workbench
Short notes on what we are seeing at the shop.
Come see the bench
Tell us a little about your game and we will find a time that works. There is no charge to ask a question.
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