No shit. Back at Building 105 and find smashed pengie in the parking lot. The Callaway guys must have been here (posted this in secretinthedirt.com thinking funny and folks thumbed me down, like folks that don't grok Elk slag him on twitter).
Club mods are done, the shafts now the right length, and the swing weights back to normal. Well, almost. They couldn't find sand and lob wedge heads light enough to bring their swing weight into the range requested. Kudos to the crew for trying. Yet, still got a problem.
The person helping me in Building 105 is so awesome. Unlike folks that are customer facing in most companies, she 1) listens, 2) engages to understand and 3) offers options and solutions. While thumbs down to Mr. Ping on obfuscating the swing weight issue in the fittings, double thumbs up and a bonus to her for being awesome.
We can go shorter on the shafts, but that renders the club fitting process useless, so that's a no. Then it turns out Ping does custom grinds on irons. So that detour a while back into the world of bounce now has meaning to enable the design of my own grinds to reduce weight, while at same time providing an interesting oppy to design my own grinds for specific situations. Back to the Tube for insights.
So decided to grind a lot off the lob (bounce, back and heel for tight lies and opening the face) and some off the sand (back and heel), and a bit off the other two wedges to balance the feel. Was fun shaping where to grind the soles with a marker. Fortunately, the set of wedges the Doc prescribed have big fat soles and plenty of bounce to start with. And if this doesn't work, still got the coordinates for Planet Wedge (and I have my own grinder). There's still maybe some gapping issues with the wedges due to the mods, but futzing with loft tweaks now is way premature. One step at a time...
Another work order, and more Dalai Lama time til done.
(via Jiro on iPhone)