Just as with real golf, it can take some time to find your shot in PGA Tour 2K23. You’re bound to duff drives, shank irons, and hook wedges all over courses while you attempt to figure out the ideal tempo to keep shots straight.
If you want to avoid the roughs, bunkers, and water hazards that are eagerly waiting to gobble up errant shots, you’ll want to make sure that the clubs in your golf bag have been properly fitted to best assist you when out on the course. You’ll begin to collect fittings as you play rounds in the game, receiving them as rewards when you finish up your final hole.
The fittings are how to get the most out of the various club types (driver, wood, hybrid, iron, wedge, and putter) by maximizing particular attributes of theirs. Most clubs have six different attributes that you’re able to target with fittings: power, timing, swing path, transition, shaping, and lie range. However, putters only have two, putt weight and putt path.
Fittings also appear in five distinct colors depending on their effectiveness. In order of those with the greatest power to alter your clubs to the least, these are red, purple, blue, green, and grey. They have all been individually balanced though to come with pros and cons, meaning even the red fittings can boost certain parts of your game while decreasing others.
When you start out, it can be a little confusing to know exactly what to do with the fittings that you begin to accrue. It only gets more complicated strategically as your number of fittings grows and you have to consider which ones will give you the greatest advantage. To help you in your quest for the perfect swing with every club, here are some tips to bear in mind as you wade through the wonderful world of fittings in PGA Tour 2K23.
Lean On Your Strengths
This is a good time to mention that so much of how you’ll want to use your fittings will depend on what kind of archetype you’ve chosen to use. For instance, if you’re someone who likes to slam the ball as far as possible by employing the powerhouse archetype, you might want to also outfit your clubs (or at least your driver) with power fittings. This will ensure that few will be able to hit the ball farther off the tee and will give you less distance on approaches, which will come in especially handy on those shorter par 5s.
Similarly, if you’re someone who prefers the rhythm archetype for its focus on improving timing, you’re likely to gravitate to the timing fittings should you want to limit the instances that you miss the mark with shots. Just be sure to pay attention to any attributes of your clubs that you’ve raised all the way to 100 because you could be better served using your fittings elsewhere once you’ve maxed out.
Hide Your Weaknesses
Rather than using the fittings to enhance aspects of your game that are already fairly strong, you could try instead to achieve balance by using them to compensate for your weaknesses. With this strategy, someone using the rhythm archetype might want to add some power fittings to their clubs to avoid losing too much in distance against opponents. A powerhouse archetype could probably stand to straighten out their bombs some with a few timing or transition fittings.
Do you struggle hitting out of the rough? Look to add lie range fittings to remedy that. These weaknesses shouldn’t just be limited to ones accompanying the archetypes either. If you find it hard to achieve a consistently good tempo in general because of your stick skills (or lack thereof), it’s only going to be easier if you max out the timing on your clubs.
Experiment
While it may seem like a smart idea to plan out your fittings meticulously, your plans can always go awry once you hit the course. That’s when you can always bring out the reliable trial-and-error method to find a combination of fittings that works. There’s no arguing with results and if you find an array of fittings that’s perfect for you, even if that’s only a placebo of sorts, it’s best to stick with that until it starts faltering. You’ll be surprised to find that sometimes a red fitting doesn’t have the impact you might expect while a purple fitting will get the job done better for you with a certain type of club.
Don’t be chaotic in your experiments though and go in with some sort of problem you’re looking to solve, especially since fitting a whole group of clubs like irons in your bag can get awfully expensive.
Mix It Up
An interesting wrinkle to fitting your clubs is that the game gives you the opportunity to fit single clubs rather than an entire group of clubs. While you’ll usually probably want to keep your fittings uniform across a club group, there are times when there could be an upside to having a club or two with different fittings than the others. Perhaps you want to have your longer irons fitted with more power while you prefer the shorter irons to be focused on timing so you can dial in your approaches. Or maybe you have certain wedges that you’d like to use from the rough so you apply lie range fittings to help you make those clubs slightly more adaptable.
Trade In Lesser Fittings
A neat feature that PGA Tour 2K23 utilizes is allowing you to trade in fittings that you don’t need for better options. By trading in three fittings, you can choose a specific fitting of the same quality (purple to purple, for example) that might serve you better in any of the club types. This can come in handy when you have an abundance of quality fittings of one type or club group but are lacking in other parts of your bag. You also have the ability to trade in three fittings of one quality for a random fitting one tier better (purple to red, for example). As you start to acquire those premium red fittings on all your clubs, this exchange will be valuable to turn all your lesser fittings into other red options that might improve your game slightly.
Published: Oct 31, 2023 06:22 pm