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Hack It Out Golf

Do Worn Out Wedges Matter?

Hack It Out Golf

Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner

Sports, Education, Golf

4.6489 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

We all love new golf gear. But in the hierarchy of sparkly new golf clubs, drivers are likely at the top, followed by iron sets and putters. What about your wedges? Could a new set of wedges make a real difference in your scoring? In this episode, Mark, Lou, and Greg talk about the performance changes of worn out wedges, and the ways in which—not just marketing, but tested results—a fresh set of grooves might help you shoot lower scores.


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0:00.0

interesting question for your team today on the hack it out golf podcast myself mark crossfield

0:05.7

here asking the interesting question to lose stagnant and greg charmers two very interesting

0:11.9

people um and co-hosts uh we're going to talk about something that

0:17.0

look i'll be honest i wasn't i always have known this does make a level of difference.

0:23.2

Well, the question I'm going to ask that it feels so selly when you ask this question.

0:28.3

It feels like you're just trying to sell golf equipment when you even just ask this question.

0:32.6

But I've actually done some tests on this recently, just because I happened to have a club

0:37.2

hanging around that really

0:38.5

highlighted this. So the question that is posed is do new wedges, so worn out to new wedges,

0:46.0

did it actually really make any difference? Like if you work for Cleveland, who I work with,

0:52.7

they'll say yeah, but they're selling wedges.

0:54.7

If you work for tight list, they're going to say, yeah, they love selling wedges.

0:59.3

Same tailor made, same Calloway.

1:00.8

They're going to say, yeah.

1:01.6

So you kind of hear these messages put out and you just think, well, really does it?

1:07.3

You know, I'm inconsistent.

1:08.7

I'm an average everyday golfer.

1:10.7

You know, you can hear their brain.

1:30.2

What difference really does it make? Just to give you an outline on just, I've got a wedge that sits in my garden. I chip on it. I've got a little chipping green in my garden. I chip with it. I've actually got a net out there at the minute because I'm making a video. and I hit wedges a lot, like just trying to find distances blind into a net.

1:36.2

And I happened to get my new wedge out and hit some of this old wedge just out of interest. And my wedges were going from 6,000 spin with a new one down to around 3,000 spin with this wedge that sits in my garden

1:46.3

and is just, you know, it's, it's an RTX Cleveland four. It's many generations back. And I knew

1:53.8

it made a difference. I can see it hit my net in a different place. And I just, but how much really does

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