Princeton, New Jersey
Fewer opinions. More measurements.
Ruth Tolliver and Dale Brandt fit clubs by appointment on Witherspoon Street. Each session is unhurried, recorded shot by shot, and finished with a written specification you keep.
Two people, one quiet room
The practice began in 2011 when a club fitter and a mechanical engineer found themselves in the same Saturday range clinic in Hopewell, arguing politely about why the ball curved. Ruth had spent years fitting for a regional builder. Dale had spent his career testing packaging machines and trusted nothing he could not measure twice.
They rented the room on Witherspoon Street that autumn, bought one launch monitor, and agreed on a rule they still keep: no recommendation without a number behind it. If a club does not improve your results, it does not leave the room.
Four sessions, one method
Each session has its own page. The method underneath them is the same.
| Session | Measures | Open |
|---|---|---|
| Driver | Launch, spin and dispersion across three heads and a dozen shafts, with a recommendation only when the gain is repeatable. | More |
| Irons | Lie, length, weight and gapping measured club by club, with a build specification at the end. | More |
| Wedges | Spacing, bounce and turf interaction tested against the courses you actually play. | More |
| Putters | Length, loft, lie and face balance chosen from a recorded roll rather than a feel in the hand. | More |
What a session contains
Roughly the same sequence every time. Roughly ninety minutes.
- Intake
- Fifteen minutes on your game, your injuries and the clubs you carry. Dale takes the physical measurements.
- Baseline
- Twenty full shots with your own clubs. This is the number every later change has to beat.
- Isolation
- One variable at a time: loft, then shaft weight, then length. Each change gets its own block of shots.
- Write-up
- Ruth drafts the specification while you finish. You leave with it printed and on paper.
| Founded | Sessions in 2025 | Shots recorded per session | Partners |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 431 | 40 to 60 | 2 |
Written by clients
I came in certain I needed a stiffer shaft. The numbers said the opposite and they showed me why. I have taken two shots off my scores since.
The most careful hour I have spent on my golf game. Nobody tried to sell me anything. I ordered the irons a week later.
They told me my existing wedges were fine and charged me for a gap chart. Worth it.
Where people travel from
Princeton and the surrounding towns account for most of the diary.
- Princeton and Montgomery
- Short drive; many clients walk from the university area.
- Hopewell and Pennington
- Often combined with a morning on the canal path.
- Lawrenceville and Robbinsville
- Route 1 corridor, commonly late-afternoon bookings.
- Philadelphia and New York
- Day-trippers who arrive on the Northeast Corridor and take the Dinky to town.