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Golf Club Bounce—Tips and TechniquesGolf club bounce is one of those concepts that virtually everyone is confused about, and also thatvirtually no one knows how it affects your swing. Golf club bounce, however, is not that difficult tounderstand.Pull one of your irons out of your bag and really look at the bottom of it. (The bottom is called the sole.)Now, according to how old the club is, the sole is either flat or rounded. They made flat soled irons evenin the 1990s. After that, manufacturers started rounding the soles.A complete discussion of the geometry of golf club bounce is beyond this little article. Also, it would takea few diagrams, which I can’t publish along with this. But you don’t have to understand all the ins andouts of bounce to be able to understand it in general, and especially to use golf club bounce to improveyour game. (Which is probably your real goal, after all.)As far as older, flat soled clubs, golf club bounce is the angle that the sole of the club makes with thehorizontal, when the shaft of the club is held straight up and down. With rounded soles, this is a slightlymore difficult idea to envision, but it’s still the basic idea of what angle with the horizontal a line drawnfrom the trailing edge to the leading edge of the sole would make.So, now that you know more about golf club geometry that 0.1% of all golfers, what does golf clubbounce do for you?There are three main ways that golf club bound helps you out. One is with your sand wedge.Sand wedges have extra bounce. The reason is this. Since bounce makes the leading edge of the wedgebe higher off of the horizontal than the trailing edge, this means when the wedge actually strikes theball (in the sand), the leading edge will be less likely to dig into the sand. It’s higher up, so it will skirtover the sand!One thing to try is to take a sand wedge and a high numbered iron and get in the sand and see if you cansee the difference the extra golf club bounce makes.There are a couple of other things to know about golf club bounce and how it affects your clubs.Now that manufacturers are rounding the soles of clubs, this effectively makes your club heavier for agiven length. More weight means more momentum for the same shaft speed. This is great for sand andheavier rough.One way that golf club bounce doesn’t help is with hitting the ball on firmer surfaces. If your club hasmore bounce, that will make the leading edge rise up higher than it needs to. This will make you tend tohit the ball with the leading edge somewhere around the middle. Of course, this totally screws up yourshot! So, bottom line is that you need to be aware of golf club bounce.
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