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Over the years SGGT has worked with many tour professionals, but one of the first was Andrew Oldcorn. With 3 wins on the European Tour, including the 2001 Volvo PGA Championship, Oldcorn’s success has continued on to the European Legends Tour with a further 2 victories. We caught up with him to ask his thoughts on custom fitting and what SGGT has brought to his game over the years.

How long have you been going to SGGT?

I have been going to SGGT since my cousin was the captain at Craigmillar Golf Club and where Scott had his first base back in the 1990s. Scott had his embryonic custom fitting centre there which I used because there was nobody really around that had the expertise to look after my clubs.

Since then I have continued to go to him and obviously with what they have now in Swanston, I am a pretty blessed tour player to have their Tour Performance Fitting Studio facility on my doorstep, literally five minutes’ drive from my house.

How do you set up your bag?

These days, I still get my heads from the manufacturers but SGGT assembles them. If I want to go and get new equipment, like drivers, I'll go up just do a quick session. I go by feel more than anything else and I like the numbers and all the technology to see what it does.

I also ask their advice on new product, what is good, what is not good as they know from all the testing they're doing with new product and all the testing that they're doing with their customers what they should be recommending.

For example I've been in Srixon irons for quite a number of years and SGGT said that the ZX-5 irons, which I was in, is the one that they can't get enough of them because their customers are loving it more than any other iron. And so that reassures me that my choice is still the right one for me. I think the depth of their knowledge is probably second to none and I can't think of anywhere else that I would even think constantly of going to.

Why do you think golfers should go to SGGT?

It beggars belief that before SGGT came along, you just took stuff off the shelf and just played with it. I've sent a lot of my amateur friends up there and they have reaped the benefits too.

There’s no point in going anywhere else as just go up there because they'll put you on Trackman, they'll judge your swing right away, they'll know what's going on and they'll advise you in a certain direction.

They also have the expertise on the building side. Someone else always used to grind my wedges because he knew the grind I liked. So, Scott Fraser at SGGT would watch and see them doing the grind that I liked, so that he could also do it too.

Whenever I go in, Harry, Bruce and Johnny in the workshop are absolutely rammed every day, but they very kindly just fit me in to get it done. It seems the turnover that they do is incredible, but I just think that a lot of that comes from word of mouth and getting a good service.

What is the SGGT difference?

The SGGT difference for me is pointing me in the direction of equipment that suits me better. Obviously, my swing speed is different now that I am older and has to be tailored to certain products.

If I say to somebody now, ‘oh, I go to SGGT for my stuff’, even out with Scotland, the manufacturers and people I am playing with know what I'm talking about and they know where I'm talking about.

I would say I go to SGGT before I go to a tour truck these days. I played over in The Netherlands one year in a tournament at The Dutch where SGGT also has a fitting centre. Introducing myself as a client of SGGT just made all the difference, because I had a little bit of work done to the same standard in another location.

What happens when you go to SGGT for a new fitting?

I would imagine I get asked the same questions his staff ask any customer. What is it you're looking for? What's your general game? How do you see your shots off the tee? How do you see your irons playing? What are your wedges like? How do you interact with the turf, which they can see by wedge fitting outside on grass?

Scott knows that I have an old style swing and I'm not athletic like the young guys that are bombing it and he can do mine in 10 minutes. Because I consistently come back to SGGT, he knows my capabilities and he's not going to try and put me into an 85 gram X shaft with an 8 degree loft driver head. I can say to him, right, I want something with this amount of spin and that's the flight I like.

They know if there any new products, either head wise or shaft wise, that will deliver what I want. I may go through a ball fitting to change the ball to then match that flight. And using the latest technology it's as simple as that. And more often than not, when we've done that, it's literally a 20-minute session.

What would you say to a friend looking to change his golf clubs?

I would encourage friends to go to SGGT because they have all the clubs that are out there in the market. They are not affiliated to one specific manufacturer so they can test everything outside with premium balls and only offer the products that they know will make a difference to your game.

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