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The Blackhawk Country Club will not see Michelle participate in the LPGA Challenge this year. She attributes the cancellation to a scheduling conflict with the start of classes at Stanford.

The tournament will run from Sept. 24-27, and LPGA stars Paula Creamer, Lorena Ochoa and Natalie Gulbis are expected to participate.

“While I was excited about playing, a scheduling conflict with my return to Stanford unfortunately will not allow me to be there,” Wie, 19, said in a statement.

This is Michelle’s first full season on the LPGA tour where she is 16th on the money list ($600,000). Better still, she has logged six top 10 finishes in 16 events. It seems Michelle’s confidence has finally started to take shape, especially after her success in the recent Solheim Cup.

Juli Inkster and Michelle Wie have been picked as captains to represent the team at the Solheim Cup this year.

Still winless, it could be argued that Michelle has no business being captain, coupled with a true veteran of the LPGA. However, Michelle has been putting really well lately, and she can drive the ball farther than almost anyone on the tour. Granted, Michelle still has not won a tournament, but she continues to be a fan favorite on the LPGA.

Could she be starting to emerge as the player that everyone wanted her to be 3-4 years ago? As always with Michelle, this should be interesting.

Each golfer is different. Many of today’s best golf clubs can be custom fit for lie angle, shaft type and length, grip type and size. Getting golf clubs custom fitted is easy, involving a few physical measurements and some knowledge of your game. These clubs are becoming to popular than even amateurs are giving them a shot. You might think that going out and buying some new, fancy, hybrid golf clubs will fix your game, but that won’t help as much as having your clubs custom fitted.

The purpose of a custom golf club us is to make sure that the club is nice and square when you strike the ball, given a proper swing.

To custom fit your golf club sets, you need to know: your gender (male or female); your height in your stockings or socks; the distance from your wrist (where it bends) to the floor with your shoes off; your age; your handicap or skill level; how fast you swing a golf club; what club you use at the 150 yard marker.

Gender is used to put you into the correct fitting scale for custom golf clubs. The golf industry uses different definitions of “standard length” for men and women.

Your height and the distance in inches from your wrist to the floor are used together to determine the length of a custom golf club that is appropriate for you. Clubs can range from -3 inch to plus 1 inch. A tall person with long arms can very easily require shorter clubs than an average height person with short arms. Only 20 percent of golfers out there fall outside the standard length.

Your age, handicap (if you happen to have one), self-assessed skill level, estimated golf swing speed and club you use at the 150 yard marker are all combined to determined the custom golf club’s shaft flex that is appropriate for you.

Custom fitting can fix your slice. If you slice the ball it means that the toe of the club is leading into the ball which opens the face of the club. That may be down to a swing problem, but another possible cause is that the club flatter than it should be. So as part of the custom fitting process you can make the custom golf club more upright to help with this. This will mean that the toe of the club will be slightly off the ground at address to compensate.

There are different methods of fitting according to custom golf club manufacturers but ultimately they’re all trying to improve your game. To start with simple measurements such as wrist-to-floor, height and hand size are taken and will point you to the right size club and at what angle it should be to the ground. Then, you’ll go out and begin whacking some balls. One way of doing this is to put impact tape on the bottom of the club, with an impact board on the floor.

As you hit the ball the board will leave a mark on the tape showing whether the heel or the toe of the custom golf club is striking the floor first. The resulting mark will show whether the club face needs to be flatter or more upright. After this, things get trickier. Analysis equipment can measure everything from your club speed to the side spin of the ball so that you can get maximum distance from your shot. You can measure such things as the angle the ball is being launched, the amount of backspin generated, and the efficiency of the impact. The angle in which the custom golf club approaches the ball and the sidespin of it can help fix your game too.

Rather than bringing down your old clubs, it might be better to start from scratch. It is a large mistake to think that custom fit clubs are only for those special, good golfers. All can gain. That said, if you plan to upgrade a new set of clubs with the same manufacturer they might be able to adjust your old set to become custom golf clubs.

Finally, custom fitting many times will cost you nothing. But it is usually on the condition that you buy some clubs once you’ve been fitted. So it really depends on what your budget is. If you’re prepared to purchase a new set of clubs it’s definitely worth getting fitted.

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