The Golf Digest Hot List is the golf industry’s leading annual equipment review—and the people behind it some of the hardest-working, most passionate professionals in the game. In this new docu series, we follow the team of Golf Digest editors and Golf Galaxy certified clubfitters responsible for the 2024 Hot List summit as they lead 32 amateur golfers through eight grueling days of testing hundreds of golf clubs—each of which has to fit the player swinging it to a T. It’s a story of hard work and perseverance paired with heart and humor that offers viewers an incredible inside look at how the Hot List scores are reached, and how shopping for new golf clubs should really be done.
I’m excited to see the bruises the bumps the scrapes it’s going to be a pretty grueling experience we’re going to have players out there that are going to hit 2,000 golf balls over a 4-day period try to do that at home we have 32 panelists over two
Sessions we want to make sure that your 14 clubs are right for you that’s what Golf Digest and The Hot List is all about if we do our job right their search gets a lot use Your for the last 21 years the Golf Digest hot list Summit has set the standard for equipment reviews over the course of 2 weeks each November 32 testers and 16 editors endure 8 Days testing hundreds of golf clubs you’re not flagging this right no all with the invaluable help of the
Unsung heroes of this operation you people are the most important part of our process let me introduce the most important part of your process the Golf Galaxy Club fits so who are these Guys Brandon Hi how are you Chris Marini how you doing pleasure to meet you to meet you bottom line I could wave a magic wand and change one aspect of your iron game today what would you want it to be consistency of flight consistency of flight beautiful it’s going to be
Collaborative effort ultimate goal we get you better I’m very happy and lucky to say the fact that my hobby my passion and career are all the same thing which not a lot of people can say but I get to live that every day see how we started creeping a little
Bit more towards Center here go so like the backstory for myself I grew up in a small town Tyson Pennsylvania grew up on a a small n hole course and really enjoy the game at a young age Shane I got your next one set up there for you okay Conor
How we doing over here our goal is not to sell clubs it’s to help that golfer play their best golf and that kind of leads into bettering your best my backstory and golf and and fitting in general started at a pretty young age I think you benefit from something a
Little lighter the age of 15 I started working at a a golf course in Northern Virginia there was a gentleman there at the course who was doing custom Club fitting at the time and he fit me for a set of golf clubs I kind of fell in love
With what that process looked like at that time okay so you hate missing like you hate that hook yeah I don’t love it yeah it’s Fair it used to be that golfers would just look at a club on a rack they think it looked good they buy it they’d bring it home whereas I think now golfers have gotten smarter and they’ve realized that the best way to buy equipment is through
A fitter how’ that work out on the PSG awesome is the same way that the best suits are the ones that are tailored to your body it works the same way with golf clubs right fitting such an important part of The Hot List process as manufacturers got more involved in
The area of fitting they wanted the hot lless to be more involved give mean 80% swing there’s an array of different things that we can do to a golf club to help optimize the performance of the club for someone’s game if you’ve never gone through it it’s I think it’s the
Best thing you can do for your game what the Fitters have really done for us is speed up the process we need guys dialed in with the right specs in seconds we don’t want our players thinking about fitting we want our players thinking about what’s happening in the golf ball
Out there it’s a collaborative effort on finding the right 14 clubs for them in their bag the family of Paradigm up top we’ve been with Chris Marini for a number of years now and I don’t want to do this without him just like I don’t want to do it without Mike stura and
Alex and Pat he brought the 18 they’re great you know a Golf Digest with the hot list in a Golf Galaxy with what we do it creates a really cool Synergy that would increase your your land angle for sure or the best part is it’s not a 4-day
Thing it’s a year-long relationship that just happens to culminate at the hotess summit it’s really cool the relationships that I get to make the new people I get to meet that’s one of the most important aspects of my job and one of the greatest things that I get to
Do it’s kind of like what the industry does for you it creates this unbelievable Synergy and you know unbelievable relationships that exist out there every day I love it I’m excited to see the different types of swings and the different types of players and to hopefully have an
Impact and maybe to educate people a little bit to show people what type of experience that Golf Galaxy has and what type of Fitters that we are
