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Bob Burns 4 in 1 Wedge

Are you one of those golfers (say a mid- to high-handicapper) who carries but two wedges in your bag, a standard pitching wedge and a conventional sand wedgeâ€”and who can see no good reason for carrying more than twoâ€”and yet who finds one or another of those new lob wedges increasingly catching your attention, and briefly unsettling your otherwise sensible two-wedge mind? Do you find yourself thinking now and then that one of those very highly-lofted, deep-soled wedges, would sure make it easier to get out of sand traps and steep-sided bunkersâ€”or to loft a shot over water, or from thick, greenside grassâ€”or to play over a high moundâ€”when you havenâ€™t got much green to work with?

If youâ€™re one of those basically sensible, but occasionally wavering, two-wedge golfersâ€”The Bob Wedge may well be the second wedge you needâ€”a wedge designed specifically to perform the functions both of a good 56Â° sand wedge and of one or another of those lob wedges you sometimes wish you had. Dramatically different from all but a very few other highly lofted wedges on the market, â€œThe Bob,â€ as we have come to call it, is a kind of 4-in-1 problem-solver for the average golfer.
The most notable features of The Bobâ€™s distinctive design and its problem-solving versatility are found on the unusually contoured flange of its sole. Like any other finely-tuned sand wedge, The Bob features the fairly sharp leading edge that is desirable for buried lies in sand and for touchy chips and pitches around the green; but to the rear of that leading edge, where on a conventional sand wedge you find a fairly hefty, rounded or convex surface, youâ€™ll find instead a concave surface, a kind of trough or valley that widens from heel to toe, and whose rearward side slopes toward the trailing edge of the sole, (creating what appears to be almost a secondary leading edge). The result of this distinctive sole is a wedgeâ€”a single wedgeâ€”that will enable you to nip or pinch those delicate shots around the greenâ€”or to drive your ball out of upslope, fried eggs in sandâ€”even as it allows you (perhaps even encourages you) to make the kinds of shots a golfer most often seeks with a lob wedge.

In technical terms, we speak of The Bob Wedge as having a biased, offset, variable degree of bounceâ€”and a coordinately variable degree of loftâ€”each dependent on the extent to which the clubface is opened or laid flat at address. When the leading edge of clubface is conventionally square to the target-line, The Bob has a loft of 56Â° and 1Â° of bounce. When the clubface is opened by 5Â°, the loft increases to 58Â° and the bounce to 4Â°. Rotating the face open to 10Â° increases the loft to 60Â° and the effective bounce to 9Â°. Finally and radically, when the clubface is opened to an extreme 15Â°, the loft increases to 71Â° and the bounce to 11Â°. What you have then is truly versatile clubâ€”one club that will perform the functions of a precision sand wedge and, at your command, the functions of a set of lob wedges as well.
Cast from stainless steel with a deep classically-shaped face, The Bob also sports a distinctive thin, double-winged hosel that slightly increases the available hitting area and (most importantly?) reduces the possibility of shanking a shot.