Custom Grinds

Bounce
There are two extremes. Better players tend to prefer "sharp" leading edges. This comes from their need to "nip" shots from short grass. For many public course golfers, this is a foreign concept as they never get a chance to play "manicured" courses where grass in the fairway is cut short.

"Sharp" leading edges are sometimes called "digger soles" from their tendency to stick in the dirt if your swing path is too steep or your talent doesn't permit "picking" the ball from a tight lie.

If you play a very "hairy" course, you will need extra bounce in your irons.

Our favorite is a "digger shape with bounce". The digger shape gives the impression of getting closer to the ball at address, but a little bounce prevents a small mistake from becoming a "chunk". We tend to shy away from excessive bounce as we play municipal courses frequently that have hard spots. There's nothing worse that looking at a tight lie, maybe bare dirt, when you're holding a club with a lot of bounce. All you will think of is "skull!!"