00:00We're here at the Titleist Performance Centre at Woburn where I'm going to be fitted into
00:04the Titleist Vokey SM11 wedges. We're going to go meet John in the fitting bay now and get started.
00:20Right, we're here with John. John? How you doing? Great to see you again. And you?
00:23Really exciting video because we are getting fitted into the Vokey SM11s. Correct, yeah.
00:29Talk us through the process. Well, normally, obviously, if you came up to TPC, we'd be
00:33doing predominantly a lot of this off of the turf. That's the whole reason we've got the facility.
00:38Utilise as much of the turf conditions as possible, but we kind of want to throw a little spin on
00:43that.
00:43One, the conditions at the minute this time of year are going to be really soft, so if we do
00:47it solely
00:48based off turf conditions, you're going to be in probably a different grind to what you would be
00:52when you're playing at your most frequent, so like in the summer months or in the better months. But
00:58also what we like want to show everybody is we've got an app that helps trade accounts, fitters,
01:05indoor environments where they're trying to fit people for wedges, simplify the process and go
01:10through the process in their environment using a tool that basically just goes off of your dynamic.
01:17So you would select what the goal for right hand, left hand,
01:21what their handicap would be, and then the typical conditions of their course. So this is valuable
01:27for me because when you're talking to players, they might say, you know, I'm a traveling golfer,
01:32so I play Lynx a lot. I also play Parkland. So you've got different scenarios and these can be tweaked.
01:37What's your level of confidence outside of getting out of a bunker? So to give you an idea,
01:41this is can't get out to tour player. Definitely not tour player. Definitely not can't get out.
01:49So I'd go more, I think. Yeah. Fairly confident out of a bunker.
01:52So we will gap that. And that's pretty, that's pretty normal to your site. Yeah, that's, that's
01:58bang on for me. Yep. So 50, 54, 60. And all the app's trying to do is it's recommended the
02:04lofts
02:04based on how we can get a 60 in your bag and what would be the most beneficial stretching. So
02:11like,
02:12ideally four degrees would be best, but that would leave you with 58. Yeah. So is when we get into
02:18the
02:18next bit and we start explaining what you use the wedges for, if you never hit full shots with the
02:2360, the stretch between 54 and 60 will be less of a thing than if someone says, oh no, I
02:29normally hit
02:30like full shots with my 60. And then you might want to potentially look at 54, 56, or maybe even
02:36bending
02:36them to be 55. We use TrackMan. So if you're using the TrackMan system, I've set up on course practice.
02:43And obviously we've got this view, which is great, but if you're indoors, you're not going to have that
02:48view. You're going to have that on a screen. So at least it gives the player a scenario that they're
02:53going to be hitting into a flag and a green, and that's the visual that they're seeing. And then
02:56we'll change the yardage as we change club. So three stock shots with what would be your 45.
03:03Yep. I've got your green there. I've got your pin pointed out at 136.
03:23I've got your pin.
03:24All right.
03:24All right.
03:26All right.
03:28All right.
04:00this is where it's important that the person being fitted is as honest as possible while i do play
04:07all year round for me it's more important that my wedges perform when i'm playing competitive golf
04:13which tends to be from april till september so the ground would be slightly firmer perfect and
04:20that's a great example as to look if you were saying like all year round and i go to places
04:25like spain and the states where the grass is different this could potentially work a little
04:30bit better as a travel set because it will cover most conditions gotcha but you see as soon as you
04:35go to like let's say you said do you know what i don't do any of that i just play
04:38i want a set of
04:40wedges for when i'm playing in the middle of the high season yep elite level golf conditions are
04:46going to be tight and firm you can see here everything changed you've gone from 12 to 8
04:51yep in the in the full soul you've gone to the s grind and you're 54 instead of the d
04:58and you've
04:58gone to m grind and you're 60 gotcha which is probably not far off what you've got now yep
05:03i would assume yep so then you get percentages and percentage matches right and the reason
05:10you'll have percentage matches is because based on your dynamics there'll be a a sway one way or the
05:16other you could use either right anything that's relatively close we'll take out there so you see
05:22the tight pin on the right this one well yeah but you haven't got loads of room to land yeah
05:27i want you
05:27hit to that first one was true yep second one you heavily manipulated and ended up missing your target
05:54by quite a bit of distance yeah okay got two very different interactions there right yeah so that
05:58will give viewers at home an idea as to why that may have been based on the condition that's a
06:06very good
06:27shot
06:29we talk about the versatility and why it's good to have different grinds and different wedges because
06:33some people go i love m grind i'm just gonna have it all the way through if you just have
06:37that grind
06:38all the way through you can only hit certain shots so if your if your ball ends up just in
06:44the rough
06:44and it's kind of you know sat up a little bit if it's sat down you can get your 60
06:50in behind that no
06:51problem but if it's all of a sudden like sitting a bit more perched that way you put your 60
06:55behind
06:56and it's airborne yeah and you've got an eight and you can't add more bounce you can open it potentially
07:01but you've got to be so much more aggressive with it yeah you lose a bit of that control and
07:05that
07:05versatility and your shot shaping whereas if you go to your 54 which is a 10s and open it a
07:12little
07:12you give it a little bit more effective bounce and you know you can hit the same shot and use
07:17the wedge to get it to the the destination you're looking for so you're not changing techniques
07:23drastically you're seeing how the the ball is lying and you're effectively picking the wedge using the
07:28tools to help you hit the shot right makes sense so the last thing i want you to do is
07:33i want you
07:34a couple of like long chip shots here okay with the uh with the 54
07:59very nice you see that low ball flight grabs there and then you would get slow release
08:05yeah it's really really good that feels good
08:14awesome thanks john no worries appreciate that so we ended up in 54 s 54 s 60 m 60 m
08:22and then you got 50 and an f oh wait f yep and then your 46 will bend to 45
08:28because nothing keeps
08:29with what you've got and obviously that comes in an f standard yeah so like it because it's it's
08:35played more like a pitching wedge option it'll stay as true to a pitching wedge sort of bounce profile
08:41sole design all of that awesome okay i am back here in the golf monthly performance lab
08:47and i just really wanted to give you my overall thoughts on the tightest smoky sm11 wedges having had
08:52these for personal use now for about a month or so do they feel great absolutely i think they've done
08:58a
08:58great job on these wedges but equally the sm10s were brilliant as well as have the last kind of
09:04i would say five vokies that i've owned i've really really enjoyed the performance do they spin anymore
09:10has has the technology changes they've made such as the five percent larger kind of surface area with
09:16the grooves uh the new kind of friction between the grooves as well and the the direction that that runs
09:22has that made a difference to my spin performance that i saw on the golf course
09:25not really not so much more than any other wedge that i've recently tested or the sm10s for that
09:30matter of fact when i first put those to the test am i seeing the ball rip off the green
09:35no am i seeing
09:36extra grab out the rough not really i'm seeing it just as much as i would probably with any new
09:42wedge
09:42i do think they look great but equally the sm10 look great as well i do like this new addition
09:47on the
09:47back here it's a nice uh nod to wedge works um and it it just tidies up the look i
09:53like that the sm11
09:54has moved down here to the hosel let me know down below are you going to go and get fitted
09:58for these
09:59do you like the look of them and do you think these could make your bag for 2026 i'd love
10:04to hear your
10:04thoughts but from me that's all we'll see you next time
10:09you
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