So I went to the nearby course during lunch to hit some chips and short pitches with these and compare them to my Hopkins wedges. One thing I noticed right away is that I definitely made the correct sole choice. Great turf interaction off the fairway and glided (see what I did there) right through the rough. I also noticed to not experience any digging with the leading edge. PING said they made the leading edge a bit more rounded, and I definitely saw the benefits of it. My hopkins wedge, which dont have a "sharp leading" edge, definitely still snagged more on tight lies.
I spun the ball a ton with my callaway MD2 wedges when I had them. However, I switched back to the hopkins wedges because i just wasn't consistent with my MD2s. I definitely didn't generate as much spin with the Hopkins. The Glide Wedges, to me, spin closer to the MD2s than they do to the hopkins. Was able to hit some some nice little one hop and trickle shots with both the 54 and 60 which was very pleasing to me. I also noticed that, out of the rough, I had to play for a bit more carry than my Hopkins because the Glides actually had some spin coming out of the rough and thus did not run out was much.
The grips on these things, with the markings, are absolutely genius and I wish I could buy them and put them on all of my wedges. Having the markings makes it easy to choke down the same amount with great consistency and the extra .75 inches is much welcomed. Really looking forward to getting this out on the course, though I am not sure when that will be quite yet!
I spun the ball a ton with my callaway MD2 wedges when I had them. However, I switched back to the hopkins wedges because i just wasn't consistent with my MD2s. I definitely didn't generate as much spin with the Hopkins. The Glide Wedges, to me, spin closer to the MD2s than they do to the hopkins. Was able to hit some some nice little one hop and trickle shots with both the 54 and 60 which was very pleasing to me. I also noticed that, out of the rough, I had to play for a bit more carry than my Hopkins because the Glides actually had some spin coming out of the rough and thus did not run out was much.
The grips on these things, with the markings, are absolutely genius and I wish I could buy them and put them on all of my wedges. Having the markings makes it easy to choke down the same amount with great consistency and the extra .75 inches is much welcomed. Really looking forward to getting this out on the course, though I am not sure when that will be quite yet!