NO Heavy Wedgies!
NO Heavy Wedgies!
Wedge Shaft Weight MATTERS
One of my great joys is to get to check club specs for the Roane State golf team kids I get to work with. It has been 2 years – because of COVID – since I have been able to do this. Over the past two weeks, I checked all of the club specs for the men’s team members.
There are always some more simple things that pop up in doing these checks – particularly some loft and lie iron adjustments that will be needed. However, THIS time I was struck but a few of the sets I checked where the wedges were significantly different – mostly in terms of total club weight – than the rest of the set of irons.
Here’s an example. Well-fit iron shafts in some cases weighed 90 to 100 grams – but the shafts in the wedges are “stock” wedge shafts – that might weigh 120 to even 130 grams. So wedge weight differences might be in the range of 30 to 40 grams heavier. Maybe these work, but I have my doubts that the wedges will play as good as they can when golfers play with “too heavy” shafts.
If you have been fit for a set of irons – and decided to to play with “stock” wedges that you bought separately from the irons – here are some things to consider…
- First, to be fair – hey who knows, maybe the heavy wedges are a really great fit for your game. But find some way to be sure they are, rather than just assuming they are.
- The shafts in “stock” wedges, in addition to weight differences, most likely have a different flex and flex profile than in the irons you are playing. So if you have been fit for irons, you may have to adjust how you swing the wedges to get anywhere close to the distance gapping you get with your set of well-fit irons.
- And just because heavier in wedges might “feel” better, it does not mean they perform better.
So if your wedge game performance is really important to you – you want to play “Better Than Average” – pay as much attention to the shafts in your wedges as you do in your other irons.
Personal Note – see you soon, LJ!!
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