Wedge Shafts…. Are They BS?

Typhoon · 2024-02-28T12:58:22+00:00

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 diff...

sdandrea1

Par4QC They have even taken any thinking out of the equation for everyone, simplest irons you could build. No R, No S, No X flexes. Just......wedge!! For your wedges, dammit.

I remember Callaway's "Uniflex". I once asked a store owner what flex Uniflex was close to and he said "well, it's kinda between.......fuck, I don't know".

Par4QC

sdandrea1 Just happen to have a set of them, stuck in brand new Snake Eyes heads!!

Cutter66

Typhoon A lot of salty people out today, including me!

Typhoon

Backinit gave me a couple wedge shafts and some guy dropped of a brandnew Scratch 47 degree head here.

LBlack14

Typhoon Backinit gave me a couple wedge shafts and some guy dropped of a brandnew Scratch 47 degree head here.

Sooo, you lied to me. 😒

ptjn1201

Some of them, supposedly, give a little more spin, like 300-600 RPM. I had gotten one of the XCaliber ones cheap when Maltby was blowing them out years ago. I put it in a lob wedge. I rarely hit full shots with it, so I don't notice a difference. The new Rapid Taper wedge shafts claim a 2000 RPM spin increase over steel wedge shafts.

Typhoon

ptjn1201 The new Rapid Taper wedge shafts claim a 2000 RPM spin increase over steel wedge shafts.

They’re talking comparing different materials and shafts. Take the Rapid taper from the set, maybe go down a flex, maybe not and then do the comparison to the wedge specific shaft.

backinit

I tried a couple of the Apollo hump shafts in a pair of wishon wedge heads on my last round of last year. The faces of the wedges had so many micro grooves that you could probably grind corns off with them. I didn't notice anything breathtaking with either. Not bad just not remarkable.

KCee

I always thought some could make a difference. The Wishon Hi-Flight was magic around the greens although useless with a fuller swing. Of course it seemed to be just a Dynalite shaft that was untipped.

The old DG Spinner did seem to give me more spin on full shots and I rarely spin ball.....except when I land it just short of the hole and spin it back 10-15 ft 😡

I have heavy 125-130g Accra shafts in my wedges now. No different, but I love the heft and shock dampening.

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