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Rates

Published Figures, Charged for Time Rather Than Outcome

Nothing on this page is contingent on you buying a club afterwards, and no part of it is refunded against a purchase, because that would make the advice cost nothing and be worth exactly that.

Sessions

What a Station Costs to Hold

Each figure covers the bay time, the operator, the reference ball, the printed sheet and the file copy kept under your name. Two people cannot share one booking; the sheet has to belong to one swing.

Single station

Putter

$120 60 minutes
  • Roll mat and start-line measurement
  • Length, lie, loft and balance gauged
  • Grain behaviour on valley Bermuda discussed
  • Sheet printed and filed
Details
Single station

Wedges

$155 75 minutes
  • Turf interaction assessed on two surfaces
  • Bounce and grind selected by season played
  • Spacing checked up into the iron set
  • Sheet printed and filed
Details
Most booked

Irons

$190 100 minutes
  • Full static gauge of the set you arrive with
  • Spacing measured before any head is changed
  • Head, shaft, length and mass worked in sequence
  • Two-column sheet printed and filed
Details
Single station

Driver

$165 75 minutes
  • Carry window set against courses you play
  • Head, loft setting, shaft and length
  • Strike pattern mapped across the face
  • Sheet printed and filed
Details
Single station

Fairway or Hybrid

$155 75 minutes
  • Tee and turf lies tested separately
  • Sole geometry matched to your entry angle
  • Crossover point located rather than assumed
  • Sheet printed and filed
Details
Longest booking

Whole Bag

$395 150 minutes, split over two visits
  • Every club gauged and every gap measured
  • Deliberately run across two days, not one
  • Both halves share one conditions header
  • Consolidated sheet with a full yardage ladder
What is covered

Second Session in the Same Visit

Book two station types back to back and the second is charged at seventy per cent. Most players who travel in from outside the valley take this option, and it has the useful side effect of putting both sets of readings under one conditions header.

Three sessions in one day is available on request and quietly discouraged. By the fourth hour the spread in your numbers is measuring fatigue rather than equipment.

Bench labour

Work That Does Not Need a Bay

Charged by the job, payable on collection, with no session required. Components are extra and quoted before anything is started.

Labour only, components quoted separately
JobLabourNotes
Regrip, per club$7Tape count matched to hand measurement
Loft and lie check, per club$5Gauged and recorded, no adjustment
Loft and lie adjustment, per club$9Where the head material permits it
Full set audit, up to 14 clubs$65Gauged, logged, drift compared to last visit
Reshaft, per club$32Pull, clean, epoxy, cure overnight, re-check
Length change, per club$18Includes head mass correction
Swingweight matching, per set$85Brought to one figure and documented
Groove inspection, per wedge$6Edge condition photographed and filed
Ferrule replacement, per club$11Turned to the hosel, not pushed on

Bench work on clubs bought elsewhere is charged identically. Nothing here carries a surcharge for being somebody else's build.

Deposit
None taken
Payment
On the day, card or cash
Cancellation
24 hours, no charge
Fee credited
Never against a purchase

The Awkward Question, Answered

Why is the session fee not deducted if I buy clubs from you?

Because the moment it is, the advice becomes free and the club becomes the product. A studio that refunds the fee has a quiet financial interest in every session ending with an order, and you would have no way of telling whether that interest was influencing the recommendation.

Paying separately for the measurement is what allows us to tell you to keep what you own, which is the outcome in a meaningful minority of sessions.

Returning Clients

A follow-up session within twenty-four months, on a part of the bag we have measured before, is charged at sixty per cent. Your old sheet is pulled from the file and the new readings are printed alongside it.

This is the least expensive genuinely useful thing we sell, and almost nobody knows to ask for it.

$0 Deposit to hold a station
70% Second session, same visit
60% Repeat within two years
24h Free cancellation window
Before you book

Four Things Worth Knowing About the Money

Components

We are not the cheapest place to buy a club

Components are purchased at ordinary trade prices and marked up modestly. During a holiday promotion a large retailer will beat our figure on a stock club, sometimes by a good margin. If price is your deciding factor, buy it there and bring it here for the spec work. We mean that, and several clients do exactly that every year.

Rebuilds

A build that misses its own numbers is corrected free

If a finished club does not measure to the specification it was ordered against, it goes back on the bench at our cost until it does. That is not a warranty, it is simply the job not being finished yet.

Wide spread

An inconclusive session is not charged twice

Occasionally a player's numbers scatter widely enough on the day that no honest specification can be drawn from them. When that happens we say so, you pay for the session you took, and the return visit is free.

Summer

Rates do not rise in season

The figures on this page hold from June through May. The valley calendar tightens considerably between November and April, but a January booking costs what a July booking costs. Availability changes; the price does not.

No deposit, so booking costs nothing to try

Give the desk twenty-four hours if plans change and there is no charge at all.