Illegal wedges?

[coltonwill]

Thinking about buying new wedges for the next couple of high school golf seasons, but since I might use them for college too, I thought that I should get wedges that conform to the new USGA rules ( which will be in affect when I start college). Are Spin Milled Vokeys going to conform? Also, the Cleveland cg12 &cg13; won't be legal because of their zip groves, right? Any recommendations for wedges that will be legal?

[iacas]

Thinking about buying new wedges for the next couple of high school golf seasons, but since I might use them for college too, I thought that I should get wedges that conform to the new USGA rules ( which will be in affect when I start college). Are Spin Milled Vokeys going to conform? Also, the Cleveland cg12 &cg13; won't be legal because of their zip groves, right? Any recommendations for wedges that will be legal?

Odds are you're going to replace your wedges by 2014 when it'll matter for college golfers.

No, current (and late 2008 model) spin milled Vokeys don't conform to the new specs, but again, it won't matter to you until about 2014.

[DDBowdoin]

yeah... thats a LONG time from now

I wonder how they'll measure and administer the ruling

[JessN16]

yeah... thats a LONG time from now

If it's anything like the way the USBC certifies bowling balls for competition, you'll have to submit items within a specific model run/model name for certification, and they keep a list of what does and doesn't. After the changeover, they'll just ban any models known not to conform.

Now, golf clubs are a bit different from bowling balls in that you can't change the rotational core of the ball after it's been manufactured, but you can, I would assume, modify a club with conforming grooves into something that doesn't conform by using tools on it and then doing a good job of covering your tracks. I'd like to know how that's going to be done, myself. Personally, I think banning old equipment based on changes in equipment specs for wear-susceptible items, be it bowling balls, golf clubs or whatever, is a little dumb. Unless you bought a set of non-conforming clubs, stored them away in an airlock somewhere and then broke them out in 2020 or so, you're going to impart wear on the clubs and "use them up," for lack of a better term. So basically, by the time the new rules come around you won't have whatever advantage you might have had when the changes were made. This is why, when the USBC changes specs for bowling balls, they grandfather in whatever has already been approved. Keeps people from having to reinvest in equipment just to stay legal. Jess

[Dub]

Loft.....lie......bounce.......length......grind.......rust....chrome.....brushed.........Dangitman.....I thought wedges choices were too dang complicated anyway.

Now we have to worry about having illegal stuff.

This is getting absurd.

[iacas]

Personally, I think banning old equipment based on changes in equipment specs for wear-susceptible items, be it bowling balls, golf clubs or whatever, is a little dumb. Unless you bought a set of non-conforming clubs, stored them away in an airlock somewhere and then broke them out in 2020 or so, you're going to impart wear on the clubs and "use them up," for lack of a better term.

People would do that if that was legal. The pros, right now, would order 2000 of their wedges if they could. That's why old equipment is banned at a certain point, and for pros, that date is January 1, 2010.

And the rest of us COULD hoard a bunch of pre-2010 wedges and use 'em until 2024. Would be expensive, but legal. Even college golfers could do it until 2014 but they'd likely be hurting their own game (if they wanted to transition to the pros).