Q – If I want to study “Club fitting”, where to learn? Are there schools and courses? How long does it take? How to get a certificate as a professional club maker?

A – Club fitting and club making are two separate skills. Most PGA organizations provide training to their members in these two fields. From my understanding and experience, to fit clubs accurately one must posses a complete understanding of the dynamic function of the club, a sound understanding of the golf swing and intensive knowledge of the components used to fit the clubs. The club builder must be meticulous and demand attention to details particularly in the incremental differences of lie, loft, shaft frequency, swing weight, total club weight and grip size.
Up until recently there was an organization called PCS (Professional Clubmakers’ Society) that offered training in the field of building clubs. This organization died however in the financial tsunami. Companies such as Golfsmith, Maltby, Golfworks and Mitchell Golf offer some kind of certificate course.
In terms of club fitting, most companies provide their own training program for individuals interested I fitting their clubs. Some companies require you to be of PGA standard before partaking in such training.
I know that the Hong Kong PGA training Program covers club fitting but as far as I understand there is no organization locally that offers a certification program for either fitting or building unless linked with a particular branded company.