Titleist’s Bob Vokey talks SM7 wedges.
The Spin Milled 7 series is the latest sequel in your franchise. How long did it take to create?
There are manufacturing issues we’re always dealing with, and we’re continually trying to improve. As soon as we finished with SM6, we were onto SM7, and we’ve already started to put our thoughts into SM8. It takes a good two years before we’re ready to hand things over to manufacturing.
Talk us through how your design process has evolved over time.
I used to just grind wedges on the wheel, take the prototypes out on Tour, get feedback, and grind them again. I did almost all my prototyping by hand; I thought machines would never produce a part as good as I could. As time went on, my thinking changed. By SM4, the [CAD/CAM] computer was doing maybe 60 percent. Now it’s almost 100 percent CAD/CAM. It’s phenomenal.
What are the SM7s biggest improvements?
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