LRHGOLF is
a Professional Custom Clubmaking, Club Repairing and Club Fitting shop. It is a modern high technology home based
shop. Only state-of-the-art equipment, hardware and software, is used to provide the best possible services
to the golfing public!
LRHGOLF is owned and operated by Larry Harding located in Ellicott
City, MD.
Larry is a Certified Class A Clubmaker member of the Professional
CLUBMAKERS' Society (PCS)and an Accredited Clubmaker member of the Golf Clubmakers Association
(GCA). He is a member of the Tom
Wishon Golf Technology (TWGT) Gold Plus Club and
a charter member of The Association of Golf Clubfitting Professionals
(AGCP). Larry is also a charter member of
The International Clubmakers Guild
(ICG). He participates in several forums dedicated to the transfer of information
between clubmakers worldwide. He is also listed on several independent golf companies web sites as the preferred
clubmaker in the area.
He has attended clubmaking classes in Louisville, KY., the home of the PCS and taken several clubmaking
skills tests and study courses from the PCS, the GCA and the Maltby Design Clubmaking Academy.
He is continually updating skills and equipment to the newest technology on golf club repair,
clubmaking, fitting and components.
He has 9 years experience in the clubmaking industry.
Golf club repair, assembly and fitting is Larry's passion! Attention to quality and detail is first
and foremost. Larry is not satisified until you are satisfied.
Larry is a retired engineer with a BSEE degree from the Johns Hopkins University and a Registered
Professional Engineer. He spent over 37 years in the defense industry before retiring.
LRHGOLF is a home based shop, fully equipped with modern tools and technology to meet the most demanding
repair, assembly or fitting. The shop has 3 general areas; the repair area, a putting area and an outdoor hitting area.
The repair shop has the tools to repair and build clubs to the most exacting standards in the industry.
Tools are modern, top-of-the-line from suppliers such as Mitchell Golf Company, Maltby Design, Auditor, TWGT and Golfsmith,
as well as others. All measuring tools are kept in calibration with standards just for such purpose. The gram scale is kept
in calibraton with standards traceable to the National Bureau of Standards (NBS). Other calibration standards to meet or exceed
industry standards are used for loft/lie, frequency and swing weight.
Software programs are used to assist in the selection and or replacement of the proper shaft based
upon ones' swing characteristics such as speed, wrist release and tempo. Software used is Shaft Profiling, Trajectory Profiling from
TWGT, The PCS Equalizer software from the PCS and swingweight prediction software. The Optimal Flight software program is
used to help determine the best club parameters for optimum fit.
The putting area is used to measure length, loft, lie and face impact as well as feel. Putter
Counterweighting is available.
The outdoor hitting area is where fittings take place as well as other dynamic measurements.
The area contains the ZELOCITY PURELAUNCH machine, a very modern, popular launch monitor in use by many of the top
name swing PGA coaches. Swing speed, distance and carry are some of the characteristics measured and displayed. Up to
5 pages of a printed report of your hitting session, with all shots recorded and compared, may be printed.
Depending upon the individual and needs, digital video photography, using the very popular MOTIONPRO,
may be used to assist in swing analysis and fitting.
