User talk:Mrmartin05

New sand wedge design
New sand wedge designs are being made to make the traditional opening of the face and hitting a ball easier to do for average players.

History
The sand wedge is traditionally designed with the shaft connecting to the face of the club at the heel. So that when the club rest upright the face makes contact against the ground with max surface area. When the club must be opened up for a shot the surface area becomes smaller and much harder to make contact with the ground because of the bounce of the club (underbelly of the face). This is why the opening the face of the club during a shot requires a good amount of skill to make clean contact with the ball.

Improvements
The recent changes to the design of the club have modified how the shaft and face of the wedge connect so that the bounce of the club does not require as much skill to make clean contact with the ball when the face is open.

Design
The new design of the wedge is called the leading heel design. The connection of the shaft at the heel of the club has been moved slightly forward toward the bottom edge of the face where as it was traditionally connected in the center of the heel. This improvement reduces the possibility of not making clean contact with the face of the club when the club is open because the heel leads the club through impact and cancels out the contact that the bounce of the club traditionally has with the ground. This reduction of bounce through the leading heel design makes the contact between the open face of the club and the ball no different than the contact of the ball and the face at upright position.