Vokey Wedge Works is a high-performance
custom shop where Bob Vokey and his team
of artisans build wedges for everyone from
PGA Tour players to recreational golfers. And
every couple of months the past two years, he
has released almost random, limited-edition
creations for sale to the public, with the club
choices varying each time with regards to lofts,
grinds, models and finishes. A recent offering,
for example, featured what Vokey described as
Tour Issue Raw wedges, with pre-2010 grooves,
custom stamping and engraving and a raw steel
finish without any plating.
Recently, Vokey and his patrons at Titleist
introduced an actual Wedge Works line, called
Exclusives. The idea is to gives golfers a more
regular opportunity to purchase wedges that
are personalized and built exclusively at the
Wedge Works shop in Carlsbad, Calif.
“Wedge Works is a life-long dream come
true,” says Vokey. “Wedges are personal, and
Exclusives allow golfers the opportunity to
make Tour-inspired and Tour-proven wedges
their very own.”
The first Exclusives wedge to come to market
is the crescent-shaped Tour Van Design (TVD),
which has a variation of what Vokey says is his
“most favorite” M grind. He combines that with
a moderate camber so the club can more easily
pivot around its center for versatility and shot-making. Its moderate effective bounce also makes
TVD effective in a variety of playing conditions.
The TVD wedges come with pre-2010 Spin
Milled grooves as well as those that now must
be used on the PGA Tour (and will eventually be
required at other levels of play). Two distinctive
finishes were created specifically for this model
– Bright Brushed Chrome and Oil Can Zero – and
they are the only ones in the entire Vokey Design
wedge line-up that have a Tour grind in lower
lofts beginning at 52 degrees and increasing to
60 degrees in two-degree increments.
What makes the Exclusives line even more
unusual are all the customization options that
had previously been reserved for the best players in the world. Golfers can chose from a range
of 40 different toe engravings and as many as
20 paint-fill possibilities as well as stampings in
three different styles and up to eight letters or
numbers. The engraving options, of course, are
endless. Wedge Works also boasts a high-performance shaft matrix that includes True Temper’s
Dynamic Gold, Project X and Tour Issue as well
as KBS Tour in steel and black nickel. And the
final touches, as Vokey likes to say, are in the
golfers’ hands, as Wedge Works has a variety
of BV grips and specially designed shaft bands
from which to choose. l
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