One thing to remember about club fitting is that there are no hard and fast rules and choosing the right wedge grind is a perfect example of this.
On this week’s episode of GOLF’s Fully Equipment, co-hosts Johnny Wunder and Jake Morrow discuss why looking at bounce numbers doesn’t really tell you how effective a wedge is.
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Moreau brought up a great example from his own testing in tight lies with a low-bounce wedge.
“I was hitting Opus T and I was on the far left side of the ECPC range where it hadn’t rained in two weeks, and it’s the tightest lie they have,” Morrow explained. “And with the T-grind that’s being talked about in the papers and forums and stuff, that should work, right? Because it’s super tight. You could pinch it, but whatever.”
“Well, the problem is for me, being a steep player, it just becomes a knife and it doesn’t come off the ground, and that’s the problem.
“And I go and start hitting pitches like 20 yards with a 12-degree X-grind, which is probably the best they have and I feel like an absolute god.”
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The bounce listed on a wedge is often different from the actual bounce on the sole.
This is why Moreau suggests blindly testing wedges, like Titleist does with its Vokey wedge lineup, to determine what works best for you.
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“We’re at the point where we want the bounce count taken out of the wedge,” Morrow said. “Whatever the sole shape of each manufacturer is, we want to put the shape of the sole on top of it, and the blind testing that Vokey does is probably the best way to do that.”
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There are so many different grind options from each manufacturer these days that players hit their shots in very different ways. That’s why it’s important to find the right wedge for your specific delivery conditions, rather than trying to match course conditions.
For more on Wunder and Morrow, listen to the full episode of GOLF’s Fully Equipment here or watch below.
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