After 4 years of persevering with my Lob wedge ,determined to master the Phil Mickelson lob shot , with rare flashes of genius but numerous dismal efforts,I finally got smart and used my pitching wedge to bump and run whenever possible and sand wedge when I needed height to get over or out of some thing .nasty.
However Playing in Canada where we often have Tight greenside lies often hard in the summer and bunkers with mostly coarse sand that plays "hard" , quite the opposite to lovely fluffy Ohio stuff , the last thing you really need is bounce! I solved it this way TW CX Micro Loft 60 56 52 Bounce 9 12 6 Bend 3 degrees upright Loft 57 53 49 Bounce Now 6 9 3 put together with Tom's 560 MC s (which are fabulous) #4 to #9 43 degree loft with the same bounce as my bent 49 cx leaving room for Driver,3 wood choice of another wood , hybrid or two hybrids. plus putter. For Florida and Ohio sand I have a 56 12degree bounce SW Lob wedge is last resort . my motto "get it on the ground ASAP "is definitely helping . Regards Jeremy Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Tom Wishon <t...@wishongolf.com> wrote: > TFLAN > > > > Some time ago there was a thread on our Clubmakers’ Forum on our web site > that was titled “Lob Wedge Hater’s Club”. The thread garnered a lot of > posts from clubmakers saying pretty much the same thing you have here! > > > > The main reason some to many golfers hate their 60* wedge is because at > this loft, the face becomes so tilted back that it becomes quite difficult > to achieve a solid impact that will result in the ball carrying just over > that hazard or trouble that you need to just lob the ball over. At 60*, the > face is tilted so far back that if there is much cushion under the ball, > impact will occur much higher up the face, at a point where the ball just > won’t take off with the same speed to be able to carry over the trouble that > it would be able to fly over if the impact occurs lower on the face. > > > > The other thing that is interesting about a 60* loft wedge is that the > maximum spin occurs at around 56-57*, and lofts higher than this always > generate less spin. The reason is again because of how much the face place > is tilted back and how that reduces the amount of friction between the ball > and the face and scoreline edges. At 58, 59, 60 and higher lofts, the > impact moves into being much more of a “glancing blow” with very little > compression of the ball against the face to help increase the friction at > impact. > > > > All this makes it very interesting that the USGA and R&A announced earlier > this year they are investigating wedges with high loft to consider > possibly enacting a rule which limits how much loft can be on a clubhead. > They originated this investigation because some of the “blue coats” who > input suggestions for rule changes seem to think that using a 60* wedge is a > form of technology that replaces skill and thus makes the game easier than > it should be. But in reality, mastering a 60* wedge is VERY difficult > because of this matter of how difficult it is to ensure a solid face impact > to make the club work as designed. > > > > TOM > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > *From:* owner-shopt...@mail.msen.com [mailto:owner-shopt...@mail.msen.com] > *On Behalf Of *Tom Flanagan > *Sent:* Thursday, August 27, 2009 10:27 AM > *To:* shoptalk > *Subject:* ShopTalk: Is it possible to hate a club? > > > > Can a golfer hate an inanimate object like a golf club? I hate my 60 degree > wedge. Hate it! Ever since that Pelz guy popularized the 4 wedge concept, > I've lost more strokes than I've gained. What's the point of a 60 degree > club if you already have a 56 or a 58 in the bag? Open the 58 two degrees > and you have a 60. And please spare me the "you increase the bounce" > argument. A 58 degree with say 10 degrees of bounce only changes a couple > degrees - meaningless. And not to put too fine a point on it, how does one > know he's opened club face 2 degrees? That's an infinitesimally small > change. > > > > I recently had conversation with a golfer who "needed" a 60 degree wedge, a > Vokey. He spent a half-hour in the golf shop looking at 60's's but couldn't > find one with the "correct" bounce.. There were 10 and 12 degree bounce > heads but he insisted that he "needed" an 8 degree because of the hard > fairways. The guy "knew" exactly what he needed because he read Pelz's book. > He's a 19 handicapper who has never broken 90. Now, with a 60 degree, he'll > raise scores rather than lower them. I told the guy to get a 56 or a 58 with > the least bounce available. Nope, gotta do what the book says works. Even > worse, I have yet to find a Vokey or a Cleveland or a Callaway wedge that > measures what is stamped on the head. Not one single time. > > > > The cost of advertising strikes again. > > > > TFlan > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Hotmail® is up to 70% faster. Now good news travels really fast. Try it > now.<http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=PID23391::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HYGN_faster:082009> > -- Jeremy F Ingle CEO SPI Consultants 613-590-1503 X227
