Cam Young’s first PGA Tour win came with a boatload of cool gear nuggets from his new Titleist prototype Pro V1x golf ball to a switch to Golf Pride’s new MCC Align Max grips to his one-off Titleist 631.CY iron set.
But he’s another data point in an intriguing wedge trend with players flocking toward Vokey’s K* grind lob wedges.
Young plays a WedgeWorks 60K* bent to 62˚ to add bounce and his Wyndham Championship victory was the second in a row for the unique wedge grind and third this summer after Kurt Kitayama at the 3M Open and Aldrich Potgieter at the Rocket Classic.
The K*, which was introduced to the Vokey WedgeWorks program late last year, but has been around on Tour for several years before then, has quickly become one of the most popular lob wedges on Tour this season.
At the 12:27 mark in the above video, Vokey Tour rep Shane Dyel explains how popular the K* was at the U.S. Open at Oakmont.
It starts as a regular low-bounce .06K grind — the wedge Scottie Scheffler switched to this season and won two majors with — but instead of the full smooth sole, it has a steep pre-wear added to the leading edge. This increases bounce on square-faced shots.
It then has heel, toe and trailing edge relief to make the leading edge of the club sit closer to the ground when the face is open, making it excel in a variety of turf conditions.
Meanwhile, it still has the wide sole of the standard K-grind wedge options, making it one of the best bunker clubs out there, which was one of the reasons Young switched to the wedge last May from his previous T-grind, a very low bounce and narrow-soled option.
“Cameron’s 60T lob wedge was doing well but lacked the effortless height around the greens that he needed,” said Vokey Tour rep Aaron Dill. “We built a 60K* that day, and it performed exactly as he had hoped. The added height around the greens freed him up to swing harder. He hit the ball higher and produced more spin and stopping power.”
The K* has come out of the shadows of being a Tour-only option when it was added to the WedgeWorks program, making it accessible to the masses.
If you’re someone who enjoys the standard low-bounce K-grind, but wants a little bit more versatility around the greens, then the K* might be a good option for you. Depending on the conditions, it even works for all types of players. Recently, I, a steeper player, took the K* lob wedge on a trip to Scotland and never considered playing a different wedge with how it interacted with the firm links turf.
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