bounce help

[connor]

im looking at a 58* wedge in the for sale section. It has a 12bounce on but not sure what exactly this means and if it would be any good or not? Can anyone shed some light on this for me please?
i understand it helps with the way it reacts with the turf and the sand in the bunker but im not sure what would be best for me

 

[Oddsocks]

connor, have a watch of this, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y3nXraCTtY

i think the gneral rule of thumb is more bounce for when i ball is sitting up on such things like a fluffy lie or on fluffy sand in a bunker, less bounce for tighter lies.. that vid is pretty good

 

[MashieNiblick]

It's a way of measuring how much of a flange the wedge has. It is the angle between the ground and the leading edge when the club is placed square on the ground. The higher the angle the deeper/thicker the flange. Needs a picture really

Generally a low bounce angle is good for hitting off harder lies, or shallow or compacted sand and higher bounce is good for soft ground and deep fluffy sand, as the flange stops the club digging in.

Your swing plane can also be a factor with low bounce being better for shallow swings and high bounce for steeper swings.

Find out more here (where I got the picture)

http://www.titleist.com/golf-club-fitting/

And click on the tab for "wedge"

 

[connor]

thanks having a look there now

 

[connor]

im guessing it might be worth going to speak to the pro and have him suggest what may suit my game/ the course. Our bunkers are quite fluffy so im guessing higher boucne would be a way to go although anything will be better than the dead weight i try and swing at the moment

 

[connor]

connor, have a watch of this, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y3nXraCTtY

i think the gneral rule of thumb is more bounce for when i ball is sitting up on such things like a fluffy lie or on fluffy sand in a bunker, less bounce for tighter lies.. that vid is pretty good

great video!! actually understand what it is now and how it effects the ball etc.. now i got to think what kind of swing i have haha.

 

[Oddsocks]

them dunlop wedges arent that bad, they just mark up really easy. if your going to invest in wedges, also invest in a wedge lesson to sharpen the technique too.. its money well spent.

 

[connor]

well i was thinking of gettin rid of my 4i as it never comes out the bag. Yeah my dunlop has chunks out of the bottom of the face for the fact of i didnt care what i hit it off due to the cost of it.
I know i quite fancy a gap wedge as recently i been caught between my pw and sw alot. After reading this months gm though think i migh tget a 58 instead of a 60. Yeah lessons are definately a big must now. Thanks to bob my chipping is alot better now, not thinning no more. I tend to struggle from about 75yrds in mainly inconsistant strikes and cant decide whether to wack my sw or 3/4 my pw.
My dunlop is my go to club for bunkers though and occasionlly pitching onto greens if i want to try and land it in soft

 

[Oddsocks]

connor, your stock PW will be around 46/47* and your SW about 56. id suggest dropping something in about 52 for something in the middle, or TM actually do a wedge to sit there if you want a matching set, its either a AW or GW, but i think its about 52.

Ive got the same irons as you and i found a 60* a waste of space, far to specialist, if you rad teh recent thread "60* wedge" your see most players who said they actually used one wre all single digit players. if your burners are the same model as mine, id suggest something like a 52 and either a 56 or 58 and drop the stock sw.

 

[connor]

yeah deff think i need to fill that gap between pw and sw. Ive looked for my type of burner on ebay but can only find them from the US so am a bit dubious over them. I do use my sw quite a bit to be fair for chipping and those short pitch shots which i like but would consider dropping it for the right club replacement. Would you recomend for a wedge then a 58 and either stick with tm or go with the vokeys which everyone raves about?

this is my burner

 

[Oddsocks]

i had a vokey 52* and it was awesome, but i also had a tmztp and it was a good club but totally different to the vokey, with such a difference it made it hard to get consistency between the two, shaft length and and had weight wre totally different.

i opted to drop the vokey and replace with a pair of matched mizzy mpt10 which are good... but the fact they are a matched pair make it so asy to flitter back and forth between the two.

you have two options, the AW/GW which match up your set, or drop the sand wedge and replace with a pair of matched wedges.. only you know your budget, so what you can and cant afford, but for me personally i love a pair of matched wedges.

 

[Oddsocks]

what about these connor... http://forums.golf-monthly.co.uk/sh...e-Wedges-52-amp-56-Degree&p=490790#post490790

 

[connor]

being tm im guessing very similar to mine in weight. Thanks for all the help mate going to do a bit of research about these now

 

[Oddsocks]

i had the 60* in this exact model and it was a good wedge, it was just very different to the older vokey, which is why i dropped them both, i sold my 60* with very little use for 30.00, so they maybe a little steep in price, but anything like that as a match pair is the way forward. at th time it wasnt the 60 that was at fault, it was th technique,