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OK, this is an early review for my SM Oil Can 60.08 after 1 round, but here goes on first impressions:LooksThe oil can finish makes it look really sweet, similar to the dark brown of the rusty finis on raw wedges but lighter, different but in a better way because you know that's how it should look. This is a personal thing, but the head seems to be smaller and with less loft on it than my old Raw Vokey but as I say, that's personal.PerformanceStunning, magnificent, truly amazing. you actually don't know what you're missing until you try one of these. I was in the boat of 'Don't need that much spin, just land it shorter' but it makes things far easier around the greens, up to 60 or so yards for me anyway. I hit 3 shots from 60 yards yesterday, into the wind so they were 3/4 swings, finished up 8 feet, 5 feet and 1 foot, with the last flying into the hole and hopping out. Immense, from that kind of distance you can just throw it to the pin and not worry about the slope of the green or whatever, it'll stick where it lands.PitchingI definitely think that the club makes it easier to get out of really sticky spots, and I got the feeling that the grooves scythe through the rough easier and more efficiently, as you certainly don't need the same sort of effort to get down and through the ball. The spin coming from the grooves makes you actually want to try out the different shots, the low hooky hop n' stopper or the high floater that dies on arrival, truly epic groovesFeelI didn't realise until today the benefit of grips on a golf club and having the same grips on all your sticks. When I first picked it up, not only did the tour Velvet grip feel strange and alien (I'm used to MultiCompound grips on all my clubs) but the weight of the head was quite different to the Raw Vokey, it'll just take time to get new grips is all. Certainly the feel when hitting the ball is a lot less harsh for want of a better phrase. The Raw had a hard, clunky sort of feel unless you really nipped the beggar in which case it was perfect. The SM feels like you're hitting thru air, courtesy again of the aggressive grooves I presume as it certainly feels lighter thru impact.Effect on BallsNow I didn't use it on brand spanking new balls because I'm a tight, scroungy sort of person but the ProV's I was hitting with it were getting battered. I hit one full shot with a ProV for the larf and it just shredded the thing, even the 60 yarders were cutting deep into the ball, which is of course the price one must pay for a high spin wedge. Knowing this, I'm planning on just using this club for 60 yards and in, as I see no point in lashing into the ball knowing that A) you're destroying it and B) an easy sand wedge is gonna be just as good and more consistentThat's it for the moment on this machine, for I can't call it anything else, I'll do a longer term review on it in a week or 2Drive safe now
The SM's do eat balls for the first few weeks but if you goto the range a couple of times and hit it there it'll dull the grooves down a bit so your not ending up with so many ProV practice balls
SM's don't eat balls as bad as the X Tours with MD grooves I took a CHUNK out of a range ball the other day!
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I just did a review in the thread above ya, so that's my thoughts
OK, this is an early review for my SM Oil Can 60.08 after 1 round, but here goes on first impressions:LooksThe oil can finish makes it look really sweet, similar to the dark brown of the rusty finis on raw wedges but lighter, different but in a better way because you know that's how it should look. This is a personal thing, but the head seems to be smaller and with less loft on it than my old Raw Vokey but as I say, that's personal.PerformanceStunning, magnificent, truly amazing. you actually don't know what you're missing until you try one of these. I was in the boat of 'Don't need that much spin, just land it shorter' but it makes things far easier around the greens, up to 60 or so yards for me anyway. I hit 3 shots from 60 yards yesterday, into the wind so they were 3/4 swings, finished up 8 feet, 5 feet and 1 foot, with the last flying into the hole and hopping out. Immense, from that kind of distance you can just throw it to the pin and not worry about the slope of the green or whatever, it'll stick where it lands.PitchingI definitely think that the club makes it easier to get out of really sticky spots, and I got the feeling that the grooves scythe through the rough easier and more efficiently, as you certainly don't need the same sort of effort to get down and through the ball. The spin coming from the grooves makes you actually want to try out the different shots, the low hooky hop n' stopper or the high floater that dies on arrival, truly epic grooves
Yep, this thread was spun off that to stop the ensuing discussions/banter/remarks devaluing your fine review
Just basically spamming my own literary genius round the place, and i'd prefer if ye replied in that thread, as more people would see it then
Sorry - a decision was taken by "der management" that the original thread remains clean and all replies swept into a "Discuss" thread - it's the same with all of them.
Ah i was wondering why there was all these "bla bla bla"- discuss. Makes a bit of sense now. What about several reviews of the same club then?
Maybe without the SM grooves it wouldn't have hopped out ::laugh:Seriously though they are great wedges, though be warned the oil can finish will wear and rust pretty quick at this time of year.
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May 20, 2012, 23:48:20