Ouch! That hurt!

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By Dave D

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  1. Dave D

    Dave D
    Scituate, MA

    While hitting a rescue shot with my new Vokey 56.11, I contacted a rock just under the surface. It took a good size hunk out of the club. Ouch! I filed it down as best I could, but it pains me to look at it now. Hopefully, I didn't affect ball flight or performance. Any way I can rough up the surface I need to file down?

    I guess I really need to stay in the fairway.

    Not much this group can do. I just needed to vent.

  2. Christopher S

    Christopher S
    Germantown, MD

    Dave - I did the same to my AP2 (710) 8-iron about two months ago. I took it to the Golf Galaxy where I purchased and was custom fit for the clubs and they sent it back to Titleist. Three weeks later my 8-iron returned with a new head! The customer service department at Titleist was very nice and very helpful. Christopher
  3. Jerry S

    Jerry S
    Carlsbad, CA

    Great job properly implementing rule 13-1.   Wear the ding as a badge of honor.  I've gone so far as to scratch a new wedge on a cartpath on the followthrough because I liked my lie and didn't want to take a drop. 

    But if you don't feel the same way, hate seeing the scar on the club in your bag, you do have an easy answer.  Buy a new wedge.  But you say you can't really justify it?  What if I told you it wouldn't cost you a thing? 

    Wedges wear out quickly.  You use them a lot in a round and you practice with them a lot and the grooves wear out.  Practice ranges are sandy and you put more wear on a wedge practicing with it than you do playing.  So buy a new wedge and put it in your bag.  Use the scarred one for practice and you will more than double the life of your gamer. 

    Really we should all probably buy two wedges every time we buy one but seldom do we ever do it.  You have a perfect excuse to do it right.

    --Jerry

  4. Dave D

    Dave D
    Scituate, MA

    My wedges do take a beating, but this is the worst hunk I've ever taken out of one. Given it was only my 5th round with it, I was a little down about it. I may just get another because my 52 and 60 are close to being worn -- might as well go all out. Just have to figure a way to keep my wife happy in the process.

  5. Dave D

    Dave D
    Scituate, MA

    I decided to use this incident as a sign to rethink my wedges. Up until now, I usually carried four wedges:

    PW (47-48°): about 130-135yds (rarely do I use a partial swing with my PW)
    GW (52°): about 120yds (again, almost always a full swing)
    SW (56°): about 100yds (full and partial)
    LW (60°): about 80yds (full and partial - flop shots are a specialty. Very rarely from sand)

    With the above setup I would either keep my 3 iron in the bag, replace the 3 with a 2 iron, or pull the LW for the 2 iron. However, I'm wondering now whether it would make more sense to go with a 3 wedge setup (47, 54, and a 58/60). This setup would allow me to keep my 2 iron (or replace it with a hybrid), and it would take advantage of my comfort of partial shots with the 54 and 58/60.

    I was thinking of a fitting, but I've never had much luck matching the distances I get on a range to what I see on the course. Mainly, I think it's the difference between an old, scuffed range ball and a nice, new ProV1 or NXT ball.

    What do you guys think?

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