Wedges and bounce...explain please.

[toddmlazarchick]

  max power said:

I couldn't make hide nor hair of this discussion-what little I did glean lead me to this: lose the 60* wedge. 14 clubs, you're set, you don't need the 60* (no matter how many 25 'cappers here tell you it's their favorite or most reliable club). Take it only to the the range or practice green-in your actual bag use a 56* or 58* SW and be done with it.

I read it both ways and its actually the decision I've been personally debating with dropping the 60*. Im not sure why people say a higher handicap should drop it. I hit my fair share of crap shots with it but I just chalked that up to my skill level. Im just curious to your opinion why you recommend dropping it? Also Ive read that people will use a 54-58 set up to avoid using a 60. Is there that much of a difference between a 58 and a 60?

[Thwak-Thwak-Ting]

  toddmlazarchick said:

I read it both ways and its actually the decision I've been personally debating with dropping the 60*. Im not sure why people say a higher handicap should drop it. I hit my fair share of crap shots with it but I just chalked that up to my skill level. Im just curious to your opinion why you recommend dropping it?

I've struggled with the same question. Alot of comments on the forum say 60* is ridiculous and noone should go higher than 58*....but surely there isn't that much difference.

I want to get a couple of Vokey's...but hate the way the 58* look with the number on the toe. Shallow I know, but I subscribe to the "you can't hit what you don't like" theory.

[Paradox]

there is no reason to fear a 60* wedge. Its no different than learning to hit the other clubs in your bag. I think that becoming able to hit a 60 opens up a lot of different short game shot opportunities. I couldn't hit mine for crap for the first season I had it...1 out of 10 swings would be decent..the rest were skulls and chunks and shanks and whatever else. Just gotta stick with it and continue to trust that it will come to you.