Best Archetype, Skills, Fittings, and Clubs For PGA Tour 2K23

[@jordanpalmer1440]

Wow! What a timely video. 2 nights ago , I started my build from scratch with master rank in mind and we came to the same conclusions on archetype, stat priority, and fitting choice. Guess I’m on the right track. What a confirmation

[@jordanpalmer1440]

Great job on the video! My last build was using the powerhouse arch from your previous video

[@fairway2heaven]

Are you going to play TGC Tours? Would strongly recommend it. The competition has really helped my game.

[@fairway2heaven]

You can still make the Powerhouse work. It’s all about getting to the stats you want and how to get there with the fittings you have.

[@jordanpalmer1440]

@@fairway2heavenyes I am going to play. I think now they are on break . Correct?

[@fairway2heaven]

That’s right. They just finished the last season a week or so ago. They have donations to fully fund the next season so we should see it kicking off in a couple of weeks. Register with them and then play in the first challenge circuit event. That will then place you in a league. Good luck!

[@azbdizzy4176]

I'm curious why you focused on lie range for driver when you are hitting from the tee. Does it impact the lie range of the shot where it comes to a stop?

[@fairway2heaven]

I didn’t particularly. Power, Swing Path then Timing were my focus. Just how the fittings fell for those stats. Lie range is really only useful if you need to hit a driver off the deck to a long par 5. A high lie range will increase how far it goes which can make a very long hole reachable.

[@azbdizzy4176]

@@fairway2heaven Thanks. That explains it. Another question - I notice you use both a 3 wood and a 3 hybrid. Have you tried swapping the 3 wood for an extra iron and if so where would you spend the extra points for the archetype?

[@alexmorrison-b2b]

Hi, saw this and thought I would try similar settings, just been promoted from TGC-D to TGC-C and sitting 2nd after rd1 , thank you 👍 and if your looking for a competitive society to try, I run WORLD M@STERS, same as TGC basically, once again thank you for this video.

[@fairway2heaven]

That’s great news. Well done. Do look out for the promotional events that happen - these are on the platinum tour but open to everyone. I jumped from CC-B straight to Kinetic about a year ago due to a strong performance in one of them. Glad the settings are working for you. Great playing to be challenging for a tournament win!!! I will definitely check out your society if it is on my platform (Xbox). Cheers

[@alexmorrison-b2b]

Hi just wanted to let you know that after being promoted to TGC cc-c your, after 4 events I’ve been promoted to cc-b and I put it down to your advice for my club settings, thank you. 👍

[@fairway2heaven]

That’s awesome. Look forward to seeing you in Kinetic soon! The course for CC is very score able this week. Wasn’t able to get my course guide out yet on it but it plays very different from the back tees. It’s one of those courses with hazards at driving range from the back, but which you clear easily from the mid or front tees. Lots of holes that favor a left to right shot tee shot as well. Good for a lefty player like me. Early in the round avoid going over the greens. Some tricky recovery shots if you do. There are quite a few greens later with backstops but the standard green speed is too slow to really take advantage of them much. Let me know how you get on.

[@alexmorrison-b2b]

@ thanks for the info, I’ll see how I get on 👍

[@alexmorrison-b2b]

@ just played my 2 rds At TGC, wow quite tough, -4 for 1st rd and -12 for the 2nd rd, that 1st rd was tough

[@rickinwast]

Calibration. I’ve come across mix views about calibration. What do players at your level recommend? As a swing Improves & more consistent, do you recalibrating? Thanks!

[@fairway2heaven]

I would absolutely recommend you recalibrate if your swing tempo has changed, or if you have a controller update. Once you have developed a consistent swing tempo, which is the most important thing, recalibrate several times to get the ball flight how you want. Personally I have calibrated so that I can hit a slight fast or slight slow through feel. It lets me move the ball into a pin. My go to shot is a slight fast as it flies a little further and is better in windy conditions.

[@rickinwast]

@@fairway2heaven Thanks!

[@kjking3087]

lost all my club fittings rebought them and on same day they all dissapeared again....how can you get them back, its 450 per club

[@fairway2heaven]

That’s a bug I’ve not heard of before. I would reach out to the customer support at support.2K.com

[@bdanplays]

Subscribed, good quality video here and good luck on your way into the top 100 next season

[@fairway2heaven]

Thank you! Great to have you on board. Hope to see you on the TGC Tours leaderboards!

[@bdanplays]

@@fairway2heaven for sure, what division are you currently in? I assume elite or maybe kinetic?

[@fairway2heaven]

Kinetic. Playing on Xbox so an uphill struggle to get to Elite and higher with the parsing of the controller. Certainly my aim to keep improving.

[@bdanplays]

@@fairway2heaven I’m also on Xbox, just finished my first season in plat. Which controller do you use?

[@fairway2heaven]

Platinum! Very impressive. Just a standard controller. Do you have a recommendation?

[@golfboy7438]

Trasition doesnt make the perfect tempo window bigger, timing does

[@fairway2heaven]

If you read the tooltip on the archetype screen it says for timing ‘Timing scales the hook / slice forgiveness window’. That is the overall grey bar not the white perfect bar. It reduces the amount that the ball curves in the air. If you want to see some testing on it though, check out Ma_Kachada’s video. Link here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmaWdH5oaNGqnJYsi=NpCLfVqbF_b_vIO8 In the video he demonstrates the larger white bar for higher transition.

[@golfboy7438]

@@fairway2heaven Thanks for sharing that, that's not the perfect tempo window getting bigger though? That's the % distance window

[@golfboy7438]

Just tested it and when I go from Rythmn to powerhouse my perfect tempo window gets smaller even though powerhouse has more transition

[@fairway2heaven]

It’s a combination of both. Higher timing increases the starting width of the swing foregiveness which is a combination of the grey bar and white perfect tempo. Because the overall gets wider so does the white perfect tempo bar. From recollection (I have my swing timer turned off), as you swing the club back these bars shrink in size (past 100% swing). How much they shrink is based on your transition stat. A higher stat and they shrink less and so it results in a wider perfect tempo bar. I remember seeing someone test this, and maybe it wasn’t Ma_Kachada. If I can find it again I will link it in a comment. I might be off here, but doesn’t change the build at all as I favor timing for the reduction in how much the ball turns.

[@BrockMak]

But what if you are using a "No Hybrids" bag?

[@fairway2heaven]

I would strongly recommend that you do because the hybrid ball flight flies higher and sits softer than a long iron making it a great club for long par 3s or shots into par 5s. But if that doesn’t persuade you … On Fittings you still want to use a similar strategy but try to get your 3 Iron presumably long enough to bridge the gap to your 3 wood. On Skills, you will have 11 skill points to allocate. The following skills are reasonable alternatives. 1st column: Zen Garden 2nd: Range Finder 3rd: Tee Timing/ Beach Bum 6th: Blacksmith 7th: Double Major / Easy Reads I do think that the hybrid bag is better overall because these alternative skills are not ideal.

[@BrockMak]

@@fairway2heaven The reason I don't need to use hybrids is because I'm a powerhouse build. I rely heavily on my driver, 3 and 5 wood, long irons and especially my wedges. I get more chip ins to avoid long-range putts.

[@fairway2heaven]

Whatever suits you sir. You can get to similar stats either starting with Powerhouse or Rhythm.

[@bdanplays]

@@BrockMakI have a no hybrid build on my channel not to take away from this video which was really well done

[@nategotti76]

Scrap all this and use 3-click. Trust me.

[@fairway2heaven]

Many players play this game for how it feels like playing golf, not to play an arcade version of it. That and you can’t use 3 click in the TGC Tour leagues. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@Biggie3946]

Final skill column info is wrong. It is cumulative, making unlocking tier 3 will help swing path, timing, and transition. It was thought it didn't for a while, but some testing was done in Reddit to prove it

[@fairway2heaven]

Do you have a link to the testing as I’ve not seen this either on YT or Reddit? Not sure how you would even test it to be honest as the difference in the bars would be minuscule.