When you are looking to invest in wedges and something you may have heard referred to in many, many, instruction articles on TV, is a clubs bounce angle. But what is a clubs bounce angle and how does it affect your short game shots? Now bounce angles introduced to the golfing world by Gene Sarazen at the 1932 Open, which he went on to win. Very simply, what Gene Sarazen did and he realized that when he was playing bunker shots the leading edge of his club was digging into the sand and it was very hard to get the ball up and out. So what he did is he made the lower edge of the club, much lower than the leading edge. Now that difference in degrees is the bounce angle of the golf club. What happens with the bounce angle is that as it enters sand or it enters the turf whatever it may be, is rather than the leading edge digging down into the tuff, the bottom edge of the sole guides the club upwards and out of the turf or out of the sand. This is because turf or sand gets trapped in between the leading edge and the bottom of the sole and helps guide the club upwards through the point of impact.

So when you are looking at buying wedges and when you are looking to explore a little more about what bounce angle is, just understand it is all to do with the sole and you can have a large amount of bounce angle or you can have a little amount of bounce angle. But to make sure that you are using it correctly is another thing all together.

Now what we are going to do in this video of series is to explore bounce angle a little bit more, how you can use it, the amount of bounce angle that you may need on your wedges and how you can develop your sure game around this very, very important part of golf club head technology.