The Wedge Guy's Commitment to Building the Best Wedge Ever featuring Terry Koehler of Edison Wedges

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Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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750: Terry “The Wedge Guy” Koehler returns to talk about his decades long quest to create the greatest wedge ever made that benefits the average recreational player. According to Terry, Chairman and Director of Innovation for Edison Wedges, wedge technology has not kept up with balls, drivers and irons. Hybrids and fairway metals are relatively new categories of clubs. Yet, today’s wedges look exactly like they did in the 1950s, but the demands are greater than ever. https://youtu.be/9eBXdHkX61I Our next giveaway is for a custom fit Edison Wedge of your choice courtesy of Terry and EdisonWedges.com. Deadline to enter is Sunday, August 9, 2020 at Midnight PDT/3a EDT. Enter at GolfSmarter.com/giveaway2020. Listen for details.Congratulations to Chris Goble of Elkhorn, NE, winner of a dozen Eagle quality, premium used balls of his choice courtesy of TwoGuysWithGolfBalls.com.This week on Golf Smarter Mulligans #66, we offer a rare combination of compelling teacher who also boasts a great story. Christopher Smith set a Speed Golf record in 2005 that he still holds today. He shot 65 in 44 minutes with only 6 clubs! Chris is featured in what was originally episode 154 called “Pick Up The Pace to Pick Up Your Game”How would you like a free copy of Tony Manzoni’s video “The Lost Fundamental”? All you have to do is write a review for Golf Smarter in Apple Podcasts (or where ever you subscribe to Golf Smarter) and forward your comments to @golfsmarter on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram, or via email to GolfSmarterPodcast@gmail.com.As this week is the opening of the 2020 MLB season, it’s also the start of the fourth season of the Radio Baseball Cards podcast. If you’re a fan of baseball, history, and great stories, you’ll love Radio Baseball Cards. Originally a radio pre-game show in 1987, these 2 minute episodes hosted by Hall of Fame Pitcher Don Drysdale feature the greatest players of the 20th Century sharing moments of their lives in and around the game. We kick off 2020 with Don Baylor talking about the pressure he faced in the 1960s as the first black student in a Texas all-white Jr. High School.For exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So think about your wedge. Where is all the weight in your wedge? It's at the bottom of the golf club. And plus it's got 50, 60 degrees of loft on it. So by design, a wedge wants to launch the ball high with no spin. That's what it wants to do. It's by the laws of gear effect. But every golfer I talk to wants to hit their wedges lower with more spin. So how do you do that? You have to move the weight high in the golf club.
0:24.3	It's not rocket science, but if you're building clubs for tour players, you've got a different
0:27.9	master than I have. My master is the 12 to 16 handicap. The guy that's just trying to pull a gap
0:34.1	wedge, he's 105 yards, and he hits it somewhere in the face, and he wants it to go 105 yards with a spin.
0:39.1	That's what he wants.
0:41.2	And my whole career of wedge design has been focused on giving that guy a wedge that he can get away with mishits,
0:47.6	just like he can on his big driver and his cavity back iron.
0:50.7	You can get away with mish hits.
0:52.8	Golf Smarter, number 750.
0:59.5	Terry, the Wedge Guy Kaler, of Edison Wedges, is on a mission to create the greatest wedge ever.
1:06.6	This is Golf Smarter.
1:09.3	Sharing stories, tips, and insights from great golf minds to help you lower your score and raise your golf IQ.
1:17.2	Here's your host, Fred Green.
1:19.5	Welcome back to the Golf Smarter podcast, Terry.
1:22.7	Oh, it's nice to be back, Fred.
1:24.1	I always love visiting with you and talking about wedges.
1:27.3	Well, we talk about a lot more other than wedges, but we don't want to share that with anyone
1:31.3	because we are in two different continents most of the time when that happens.
1:37.2	That's true. All right, but let's talk about wedges because I always am thoroughly entertained when we get together.
1:45.2	You know, I think of you as a serial entrepreneur.
1:51.7	That's a good explanation.
1:55.2	But like I, you know, being here in Silicon Valley and, you know, what's going on in San
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