What do you guys think? Are they necessary or is it BS created by OEM’s to make people think they can’t play without them? Personally I can’t tell the difference. I played my Pings for years with all the same shafts. To me my wedges are just an extension of my set.
Tiger, Rory… they don’t use them, they just go down a flex in their iron shafts.
Typhoon is it BS created by OEM’s to make people think they can’t play without them?
Of course it is. Us high (and low) functioning hackers would never know the difference. If players in your realm (real players) don't discern a difference, then there's your answer. But don't tell the guy in the $1000 outfit with the $5000 bag of high-end latest and greatest.
I brought this up because I was on THP and saw guys drooling over wanting to check out some new Steelfiber wedge shafts. These guys like to have the latest and greatest but unlike WRX, they don’t lie about what they shoot. Mostly average golfers that this should be the last thing to be thinking about.
I always use the same shaft that's in my irons, or as close as I can get. I use them for full swings as well as for close stuff. 50 degree Gap wedge to 100 yards, 54 degree Sand wedge to 85 yards, and 58 degree lob wedge to 70 yards.
I'm not a good player, but am pretty good with the wedges.
Found this.
So what do the pros have in their wedges? Last weeks winner of the Bay Hill Classic played the same shafts in his irons and full complement of wedges. The winner and runner up in the 2016 Open Championship both played the exact same shafts in their wedges as they have in their irons. Even Lydia Ko plays the same UST Mamiya Recoil graphite shafts in her irons and wedges. Some tour players like to play softer flexes and heavier weights in their sand and lob wedges since these are more feel-oriented clubs. Steve Stricker favors that setup. Rory McIlroy favors a softer shaft, Project X 6.5 in his wedges versus the Project X 7.0’s in his irons.
The way these guys play these days, hitting 150+ yard wedges, not sure they can afford to play anything else but the same shaft as they do in their set. I never quite understood the wedge flex.....but I think the TTDG is an s200, which jf playing the 300 in the set would make the wedge shaft lighter. I dunno. I can understand playing something different if the majority of shots played with a specific wedge is finesse, ala the spinner or going up a flex but playing the 8i shaft/ssx2.
To answer your question - YES...IMO, just more bull puckey from the Marketing Department of the shaft manufacturer. Most amateur golfers, 95%, don't have the swing speed, timing nor physical ability to even play stiff flex shafts in their clubs, let alone a wedge flex shaft in their wedges. Putting a piece of rebar in their wedges might soothe their ego but does nothing to help their game in the least...What we as amateurs need is more short game practice instead of long drive practice and stop trying to "buy" a game with the latest and greatest "technical improvement" and gimmick from the marketing department of True Temper, et el and the glowing articles about them in the suck-up Golf Magazines written by company shills...
Well thanks for nothing here fellas.
I won a set of the KBS Tour Hi Rev 2.0 wedge shafts over the winter. A set of red, white, blue.
I was gonna try raping someone here with them in a week or so but may just have to post them where they are 'needed/appreciated'.
You guys spoil everything. Need to pay closer attention to what ads from OEMs state rather than real players 'assumptions'. WTF do they know about equipment??
Par4QC
I anticipate a new "For Sale" posting over on GolfWRX for the pseudo professionals to battle over...
Typhoon I was on THP
Well, this right here was your first mistake. lol 
This is the same crowd that thinks near-net forged means lesser quality instead of it being a manufacturing process/practice. 
LogicalOne thinks near-net forged means lesser quality
Kinda makes sense. Reads like it only got close with that "near' part on there.
Prolly a lot of porosity inside we can't see, instead of solid which full net forged would give us.
raggmann54 I never cross the tracks.
I just cut down 3 of the steel iron shafts I had. Not sure exactly who I got them from on here, but I picked up 4 steel iron shafts 5-8. Tipped them to the correct length, and shafted the wedge heads I picked up from Kelly, @LogicalOne . They work fine, as long as I do my job.
raggmann54 To answer your question - YES...IMO, just more bull puckey from the Marketing Department of the shaft manufacturer. Most amateur golfers, 95%, don't have the swing speed, timing nor physical ability to even play stiff flex shafts in their clubs, let alone a wedge flex shaft in their wedges. Putting a piece of rebar in their wedges might soothe their ego but does nothing to help their game in the least...What we as amateurs need is more short game practice instead of long drive practice and stop trying to "buy" a game with the latest and greatest "technical improvement" and gimmick from the marketing department of True Temper, et el and the glowing articles about them in the suck-up Golf Magazines written by company shills...
This kind of valid & justified advice is non-compliant with paragraph 14(c) located in Appendix A of the Buzzer Ho’ing Policy memorandum. Just sayin’…
LogicalOne They are the biggest bunch of ass kissing suck ups. You can never trust their equipment opinions because if they say they don’t like something they will be out of the running for their equipment contests etc…
Another factor in this all us that at times wedge specific shaft pricing is at a premium. Apollo used to market wedge shafts, but I'm not sure that they were
not trimmed iron shafts.
Par4QC The only reason I don't use specialty wedge shafts is because they work so good it took all of the challenge out of my up and down par/bogey putts!
