Fitting For Swingweight        
   
 
  From the days of Scottish clubmakers in the 1800s through today's high-tech designs, the search has continued for a method to achieve some sort of swing balancing within a set of clubs. Back then, if a golfer happened to find a club that swung and performed to the customer's liking, they referred to the club as having the right "Heft". Not unlike today, a golfer might pick up    
         
 

and waggle a club and come to the conclusion that the club feels good or not. Since no swingweight scales existing back in the 1800s, the verbal description of "heft" was the only way to indicate the relationship of weight within a club.

Manufacturers and clubmakers credit Robert Adams, an engineer from Massachusetts, with the method of swingweighting that is used today. A tinkerer with golf equipment, Adams felt that some form of balancing was necessary to match consistency throughout the set. While

 
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