Personalized Equipment Decisions
Every golfer swings differently. Clubs and golf balls should be selected through measured performance, not guesswork.
Discover how the right clubs and the right golf ball working together can transform distance, trajectory, and scoring control. This site lets golfers see how equipment really performs.
The Golf Ball Fitter helps golfers understand how their equipment truly performs. By combining golf club analysis with golf ball performance, the site shows how launch conditions influence trajectory, carry distance, peak height, and landing angle.
Personalized equipment decisions, clear explanations, and a performance-first philosophy.
Every golfer swings differently. Clubs and golf balls should be selected through measured performance, not guesswork.
Golf is not just about distance. Peak height, landing angle, and distance gaps all influence scoring and confidence.
Technical enough to be credible and visual enough to be useful, the site helps golfers see performance relationships instantly.
Launch conditions, club-and-ball relationships, and bag structure drive the recommendation process.
Ball speed, launch angle, and spin rate shape trajectory, carry, peak height, and landing behavior.
The best head and the best golf ball must work together. Small changes can dramatically affect flight and stopping power.
Top-of-bag spacing, iron gapping, and wedge flow should make sense together so the golfer has confidence from driver through scoring clubs.
Everything is presented for the golfer first: clear, visual, and performance-driven.
Your clubs should match your swing. See how every club in the bag performs through launch, carry, height, and descent so distance gaps and scoring control make sense.
Many golfers play the wrong ball for years. This analysis shows which ball should you be playing based on launch conditions, trajectory shape, stopping power, and distance control.
Turn launch data into something useful on the course with print-ready yardage and descent-angle information that helps you trust every club in the bag.
Published stories describing the engineering and fitting philosophy behind The Golf Ball Fitter.
Miura Golf recognized David Butler as its first Featured Dealer and highlighted his fitting process, studio, and commitment to precision-built performance.
Read ArticleABC News described a true custom fitting as a deep launch-monitor-driven process that produces longer, straighter, and more consistent golf shots.
Read ArticleThe golf ball optimizer story explains how launch data, physics, and engineering principles can identify the best golf ball for a player.
Read ArticleJapanese golf club manufacturer Miura Golf, known for making premium forged irons, named California PGA Master Clubfitter David Butler its first Featured Dealer.
Butler, also known as “Doctor Grip,” was featured on the Miura Golf website with photographs of his custom fitting and clubmaking facilities in the San Francisco Bay Area. Miura described this recognition as a way to honor dealers who do an exceptional job representing the product and helping golfers understand the value of custom fitting.
Miura representatives emphasized that Butler not only personified the kind of clubfitter the company wanted associated with its brand, but also showed an unusual level of commitment by focusing entirely on Miura products instead of mixing in off-the-shelf retail offerings.
Butler’s fitting sessions typically lasted between two and five hours. During those sessions, golfers learned how shafts bend, twist, droop, and kick through the swing. For precise fitting, Butler used technologies such as TrackMan and True Temper’s computerized Shaft Lab to analyze swing behavior and build clubs with tight tolerances in shaft selection, length, swing weight, kick point, loft, lie angle, and grip.
Miura highlighted Butler’s engineering background, his history of technical leadership, and his passion for golf as key reasons he was able to create such a disciplined fitting process. The company viewed that combination of engineering, craftsmanship, and commitment to feel as a natural match for the Miura philosophy.
Wayne Freeman’s ABC News piece described a custom fitting experience that was very different from buying golf clubs off a rack or out of a box. Instead of relying on stock assumptions, the fitting process centered on detailed launch monitor analysis and patient observation of ball flight.
Freeman explained that David Butler used a TrackMan launch monitor to study many elements of the golf swing, including shaft and club angles, swing speed, ball speed, spin, descent, and other factors that affect how the ball actually travels. The process took hours, not minutes.
The article went on to describe how Butler built a set of Miura irons that felt balanced and efficient while producing highly impressive TrackMan numbers. Freeman noted especially strong smash factor readings, improved consistency, straighter shots, and additional distance compared with previous sets built using other clubheads.
He also described the trajectory of the irons as ideal: high enough to hold greens, stable enough in windy conditions, and controlled enough to avoid ballooning. Even the longer irons performed with surprising ease and reliability.
The overall point of the story was that true custom fitting is not marketing language. It is a disciplined process of measuring performance, understanding ball flight, and selecting equipment that works with the golfer rather than against the golfer.
The golf ball optimizer was developed from a simple but important question: once the clubs are properly fit, which golf ball should the player use?
For years, the usual answer was trial and error. Golfers would hit different balls and compare results, but the process was not scientific enough to fully explain why one ball worked better than another. That led to the development of a more structured system based on launch data, physics, and engineering principles.
The optimizer uses launch conditions such as ball speed, launch angle, and spin rate to predict how different golf balls will perform. From those inputs, the system can estimate carry distance, peak height, and angle of descent across a golfer’s set.
The result is not just a recommendation for a golf ball, but a practical understanding of how that ball affects full-flight performance and stopping power. It also makes it possible to generate printable yardage and descent-angle cards so golfers can carry the information onto the course.
This approach turns golf ball fitting from guesswork into a repeatable decision process. Instead of wondering which ball to play, golfers can use launch-based evidence to identify the one that truly fits their game.
Built on a lifetime of engineering, performance, and competition, the story behind The Golf Ball Fitter gives golfers a reason to trust what they are seeing.
David Butler is a BSME and MBA whose career spans engineering, aerospace, automotive, semiconductor operations, and high-performance competition. That rare combination of technical discipline and competitive insight shapes the philosophy behind this brand.
His background includes serving as Chief Engineer with Chrysler Corporation, contributing to the Magellan 2 Venus probe mission, spending 25 years in Silicon Valley as an engineering consultant, and serving as VP of Operations at National Semiconductor.
He also flies airplanes, is a national champion in NHRA fuel dragster racing, and loves dogs.
Picture-style previews of the Auto Build Inputs, Results panel, and printable Yardage Card inside a green premium panel matching the rest of the site.
Auto Build Inputs preview.
Results and graph preview.
Printable yardage card preview.
Build the right clubs. Match the right ball. See the difference.
Most golfers spend time selecting golf clubs, but very few give the same attention to the golf ball. Yet the golf ball is the only piece of equipment used on every shot.
The correct golf ball is determined by measurable launch conditions.
When combined with altitude and temperature, these variables determine carry distance, peak height, descent angle, and stopping power on the green.
Golf balls vary in compression, which influences how efficiently energy is transferred during impact. Lower ball speed players often benefit from balls that compress more easily. Higher speed players may benefit from firmer balls that maintain stability at higher impact speeds.
Too much spin may create excessive height and reduced distance. Too little spin may produce shots that fly too low or do not stop on the green.
The dimples on a golf ball are carefully engineered to control lift, drag, and trajectory stability. Two golf balls struck with identical launch conditions may fly differently due to aerodynamic differences.
The goal of golf ball fitting is to identify which ball produces the most effective trajectory for a given player. When the correct ball is matched to the player’s launch conditions, the golfer can achieve improved distance consistency, better trajectory control, and increased stopping power on approach shots.
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The Golf Club Builder – The Golf Ball Fitter
Enter the player inputs, build the set, then use See the results to review the full results panel.
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