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Find out how golf wedges with different lies, bounce, weight, and shape can affect your shots. Learn what wedge would work best in all weather conditions.

VIDEO: When To Replace Your Wedges, Evaluating Groove Wear and Spin Performance

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0vthLItO-Q How does the wear on grooves affect your wedge shots? Titleist sought to find out in this new video. The Vokey Wedges R&D team tested three levels of groove wear using a proprietary wedge robot at the Manchester Lane Test Facility. The wedge robot is the ultimate ball striker. “It hits wedges over and over again with exacting precision,” said Jeremy Stone, Director of Marketing Vokey Wedges. The target was a 100-yard-long green that’s perfectly flat. “It allows us to land the ball and measure rollout to precise distances so we can figure out exactly at what point…

VIDEO GOLF INSTRUCTION: Rickie Fowler and Butch Harmon on Fixing Gaps in Your Game

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBlJqWosKRo It’s winter in the Northern Hemisphere, that time of year when many of us store our golf clubs in a dark and lonely place. But that doesn’t mean we can’t think about our golf games and the coming golf season. A little indoor practice is also a possibility. In these two videos, PGA Tour star Rickie Fowler and top golf instructor Butch Harmon discuss how to fix gaps in the game that are common to many golfers. One (above) is chipping over a bunker and the other (below) is holing four-foot putts. The beauty of this instruction at…

Different Wedges for Different Conditions: Is it Worth it?

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Originally Posted: July 27th, 2012 I just got back from a whirlwind tour of Scotland, playing 14 courses and 20 rounds in 14 days. One of the things that you should know about golf in Scotland is that it is very different from most golf you will play in the states. The grass is different, most of the courses we played were links style and the ground is very firm almost hardpan, making it difficult to take a divot. Why am I mentioning all this? Well, because I want to talk about the wedges we all use. Specifically, pitching, gap,…

Wedges

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How to Pick Wedge Loft Determining the loft and amount of wedges that a player will carry is a simple task. First, take stock of the clubs that are already in the bag for play. Are there multiple fairway woods? What is the shortest club that is included in the iron set (normally a pitching wedge)? If a player carries multiple fairway woods that will limit the number of wedges that they can carry, while the loft of the shortest club will determine the loft of the wedges the player chooses. Wedges will need to be spaced either 4 or…