Optimizing Wedge Shots: Attack Angle, Shaft Lean, and Spin

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On Attack angle, shaft lean and wedges Last week, we discussed the potential benefits of leaning a wedge more forwards and reducing dynamic loft. That message is summarized in this pic. Read more 👇👇👇

The problem with reducing dynamic loft is that it CAN cause the ball to 🟢come out hotter (faster ball speed) and 🟢spin less Not great things for short game.

This is because more shaft lean can reduce spin-loft (green) Which is the difference between the attack angle (blue) and dynamic loft (pink)

However, we can bring back an increase in spin loft by steeping the lower (blue) vector AKA steepening the angle of attack. Below pic shows a greater spin loft (green) due to a steeper AOA (blue line)

This basically allows us to create 🟢all the benefits of reduced loft that we talked about last week 🟢while still maintaining spin loft - thus spin But wait, there's more!!! 👇👇👇👇

With a steeper attack angle (AOA), any drop in vertical height (arc depth) results in less ground contact variance than with a shallower AOA. Imagine dropping 2 grooves deeper for both a steeper and shallower AOA

Now, this effect is not as pronounced as in the pictures. When the face contacts the ball, the club-head is deflected downwards, so it would reduce that ground-contact-variance for the shallower AOA. However, it's still greater than for the steeper AOA

So far we have learned 🟢more forward shaft lean can reduce spin loft 🟢resulting in lower spin and faster ball speed 🟢steepening AOA can negate the above 🟢this may reduce ground contact variance

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