About This Site
Golf Club Length Calculator is a free fitting-reference site: it turns two measurements — your height and your wrist-to-floor — into a recommended length for every club in the bag, using the published standards club builders work from.
What this site does
Club length is the most basic fitting decision a golfer makes, and the one most often left to whatever happened to be in the box. This site exists to put a number on it before you buy, build or cut: enter your height and wrist-to-floor and it applies the published fitting chart to the published standard lengths, club by club, and shows its working.
Alongside the calculators you will find the full length chart with its sources named, a guide to measuring clubs the official USGA way, and dedicated tools for drivers, irons, shafts, putters, women, juniors and the length-and-lie relationship. Everything is free, works in the browser, and asks for no account and no email address.
Why I built it
Ask five sources how long your driver should be and you can get five answers. One brand's chart says one thing, a forum post swears by a second, the salesperson in the shop says a third — and none of them shows you where the number came from. Club length shouldn't run on folklore.
It matters because length is the one fitting decision you can't easily undo. A grip can be swapped in minutes and a lie angle bent in seconds, but a shaft that has been cut too short stays cut — the fix is a new shaft, not an adjustment. So the number has to be right before anything is cut, not discovered afterwards on the first tee.
That's why I built this site: to put the published material in one place — the clubmaker standard lengths, the height-and-wrist-to-floor fitting chart, the putter and junior systems, the official measuring method — with every figure sitting next to the source it came from, so you can check a recommendation instead of taking it on trust.
About the author
I'm Ian Welkins, an independent web developer based in Houston, Texas. I build small, single-purpose calculator websites — free tools that each do one job properly, show their working, and ask for nothing in return: no sign-up, no account, no email address before they'll give you an answer.
This site is researched, built and maintained by me personally. I gathered the fitting data and checked every figure against the published guides named on these pages — the GolfWorks and Hireko clubmaker standards, the fitting chart and its two reproductions, the putter guides, the USGA Equipment Rules — and where those sources disagree, the pages print the disagreement instead of papering over it. There is no team and no content farm behind it: the code, the words and the corrections all come back to one person.
You can find me, and check that for yourself, on these profiles:
- GitHub — my projects and code
- Dev.to — notes on building these tools
- About.me — all my sites and profiles in one place
- Gravatar — my verified profile
Found a figure that looks wrong, or a page that misbehaves? Tell me through the report-an-error page — I read every report myself — or reach me through the contact page.
A note on AI
I use AI tools as drafting and coding assistants, the way many independent developers do now. On a site like this the boundary matters, so here it is plainly: an assistant can help word a paragraph or draft a line of code, but it does not choose the numbers. Every fitting figure here comes from the published charts and guides named on the page that uses it, and I verify each one against that source before it goes up — the published chart is the authority, never the assistant.
And if something still looks off, the report-an-error page reaches a person — me — not a ticket queue or a bot.
How the numbers are verified
Every length on this site traces to a published source named on the page that uses it — the clubmaker standards (GolfWorks, Hireko), the fitting chart and its two reproductions, the putter guides, the TaylorMade manual — and where two sources give different figures we print both rather than averaging them into a number nobody published. Standard lengths come from the two clubmaker references the trade works from — The GolfWorks' standard-lengths specification and Hireko Golf's standard length chart — and the two agree exactly on every men's steel iron, which is the kind of cross-check we require before a number is published. The measuring methods come from the USGA and R&A Equipment Rules. The fitting chart is a named, widely reproduced published chart, reproduced as published.
Where sources genuinely disagree, the site shows the disagreement instead of picking a winner in secret. The driver is the standing example: the clubmaker standard is 45 inches, while most current stock drivers ship at 45½ to 45¾ inches — the chart page presents both figures and says which is which. The full standards for what gets published here are set out in the editorial policy.
What this site is not
A calculator is a starting point, not a fitting. It cannot watch your posture, your strike pattern or your ball flight, and no honest tool would claim otherwise. Use the numbers here to know what you are looking for — then, before a shaft is cut or a set is ordered, have a club builder or fitter confirm the length on the range. If the two disagree, the builder who watched you swing wins.