Thanks Jason! 

Glad to hear getting properly fit has produced such good results for you.

The bottom line is "if it don't fit, it don't hit." Properly fit clubs make a big difference in your game. To give a bit of history, I had been basically 5'11 3/4" tall from high school thru 2005 (I had an insurance physical where my height was measured at 6'1" - possibly due to better posture) and had been using standard lie clubs all this time. I took up golf again in 2006 and I would hook or pull my woods and hit irons dead straight. I made a change in 2008 where I stood more upright and my woods straightened out (along with being able to hit hybrids well); however, I started having problems with consistency with irons and sudden onset of swing faults. Then I got into clubmaking in 2009 and constructed a set of Snake Eyes irons. This is where I found out that improper fit leads to swing faults (caused by muscle fatigue and/or loss of balance). Ping's static fit charts indicated I should use yellow dot on irons. The standard lie angle charts stated 1 degree upright. The issue with these is that Ping irons have a .75 degree lie angle spacing between clubs and the standard lie chart has 1/2 degree between each iron from 8-PW and a degree between each iron from the 7 iron up. Some vendors have a 1/2 degree spacing between clubs throughout. So, as one can see, a standard lie 5 iron is 62 deg in one set and 60 in another - that is a huge difference! I actually have my lie angles and shaft lengths for 5-XW irons recorded on a spreadsheet. I did a bit of a science experiment on an old set of Lynx Black Cat irons (these were the ones I had difficulty hitting in 2008; the cost was $5 per club for lie angle adjustment - I had to bend the 5 iron 2 degrees, the 6 iron 1.5 deg, the 7 iron 1 deg and the 8 iron 1/2 degree for them to hit properly and the spacing was 1/2 deg per club) I know that when I buy a sand wedge (35.25") that I have to bend the lie angle to 64.5. Lob and X-wedges are 65 deg (35" length). I hit the entire set of Black Cats dead straight with a reasonable degree of consistency (but don't use them because they don't get the distance that my Snake Eyes irons did and my Eye 2 irons do). I found out a set of Titleist AP1 irons in standard lie pretty much matches the lie angle values on my spreadsheet. "Don't fit, don't hit" also applies to set makeup. The standard 1-3-5 wood, 3-4H, 5-PW, GW-SW-LW setup may not necessarily work for everybody. For instance, I fare better with a 7 wood vs a 3H. Likewise I fare very well with a 5H. Although I can hit a 6 or 7 iron, it is a lot less work to use the persimmon 34 hybrid in my bag (which I just about never miss with - I can work the club between 140-160 yards by choking up and down the grip). A gap wedge has never been of any added value (I work my PW pretty well; furthemore, the Ping Eye 2 PW in my bag has a 50 deg loft - why bother?). In short, with proper fit and set makeup, I have gone from barely breaking 100 for 18 holes to consistently shooting in the mid 80s.