Six pieces, all of them about the scoring end of the bag, all of them written because the same conversation kept happening in Bay 5. No product reviews, no gear rankings, no seasonal buyer's guides.
Bounce is usually explained as a number stamped on a sole. It is more useful to think about it as the amount of resistance the club meets on the way through, which changes with turf firmness, entry angle, and how open you present the face.
Read itTwo wedges with identical loft and identical bounce can sit completely differently behind the ball. The variable doing the work is how high the leading edge sits off the ground at address, and almost nobody publishes it.
Read itGolfers check groove depth with a fingernail and conclude their wedges are fine. Depth is not what fails first. The sharp shoulder at the top of each groove rounds off long before the channel gets shallow, and that shoulder is what grips the cover.
Read itThere is a hard limit on how much spin a wedge can generate from a clean, dry lie, and it has been fixed by rule for years. What the surface between the grooves does is protect performance when the lie is not clean and dry — which is most of the time.
Read itA wet ball does not simply spin less. The loss is non-linear, it changes with loft, and it arrives faster than most golfers expect. Here is what actually happens in the two thousandths of a second the ball is on the face.
Read itEquipment can only do so much once the turf is saturated. This is the working plan we give golfers for soft weeks — which club to lean on, how much release to expect, and what to stop attempting.
Read itReading about bounce is useful. Watching your own sole leave a mark on real turf while somebody measures the entry angle is considerably more useful.