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Changing a wedge's bounce

John105

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How difficult is it for a golf shop to grind down a wedge to get lower bounce?

Would there be any drawbacks or unintended consequences? Besides the obvious lower bounce

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I'm not sure if most shops would be qualified and/or have equipment for that. You could get crazy and take it to the bench grinder for a fun DIY.

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Yeah, just sell it on ebay or something and then replace it for what you need.

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Several of the specialty wedge models from a year or two ago are on sale now. Different sole grinds to choose from, done at the factory.

You can get Callaway X-Forged and Mizuno T-series wedges for $70 in some places.

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The problem is I have a fitted left-handed wedge so Ebay doesn't seem likely to work as well.

I'd like to see if Cleveland would do it, but I can't find their email address for some reason.

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Are you talking about giving yourself a little different grind, relief in a certain area? There are places you can send to for that. Grinding enough off to significantly change the bounce as in 14 degress to twelve degrees sounds like a big adjustment. I don't really know if that is something normally done. I have to wonder what effect it would have on the weight of the head etc? Loft adjustment does make some difference in the bounce as well, but I am not clear on how much. Golfworks used to do some of this kind of work, I don't know if they still do.

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Technically speaking I'm sure it can be done, but I'd think the weight would be so different that you can't predict ahead of time whether you'll even be happy with the result. Unless you can do it yourself, I think the economically sensible move is to buy a new one, then have it tweaked to fit the specs of the one that was fitted. That way if you don't like the new bounce, you've still got the old one.

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Technically speaking I'm sure it can be done, but I'd think the weight would be so different that you can't predict ahead of time whether you'll even be happy with the result. Unless you can do it yourself, I think the economically sensible move is to buy a new one, then have it tweaked to fit the specs of the one that was fitted. That way if you don't like the new bounce, you've still got the old one.

After giving it some thought, you're right. It would prob end up costing me half of what a new club would cost so I'll prob just get a new one with a couple degrees less loft and much less bounce.


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