This Golf Groove Sharpener Worked WAY BETTER Than We Thought! …
Hey Guys, as golfers we know the importance of Grooves on golf clubs. Now over time the grooves get worn down from striking the ball, and can get filled with debris. In todays video we are going to sharpen up the grooves to see how these groove sharpeners perform. I have the $10 Hifrom Groove Sharpener, $20 Groove Dr. Groove Sharpener, and the $79 Groovex Groove Sharpener to see if price really matters, and see if having sharpened grooves really does make a difference in the performance of the golf club.
1️⃣ Groovex Groove Sharpener – https://geni.us/Groovex
2️⃣ Groove Dr. Groove Sharpener – https://geni.us/GrooveDr
3️⃣ HiFrom Groove Sharpener – https://geni.us/HiFrom
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I want the one guaranteed to make my clubs illegal
Clean clubs, add oil to iron, and then use the cheap tool. Show at events who is checking non conforming grooves. Doesn’t happen.
Just came across your video and to be honest I love the painting of Arnie with the cigarette behind you
Why not wash the clubs with a brush and then do the sharpening. The dirt inside does not help with the sharpening
6844 yds of spin? No way! Haha
You don’t wash all of your clubs beforehand? Sorry, but that makes no sense to me.
Why is it a huge plus to have conforming grooves?
Any golfer good enough to be checked has sponsorships that give them new clubs after every shot. Everyone else can stay out of tolerance 4 life without consequence😂
Call/email PXG and give them the serial #~ they’ll tell you if it’s a V, U, box, etc. then you don’t have to guess.
Lol groovex is literally just ground carbide. Plus or minus 0.001" (a thou) is #1 not an "aerospace" spec, it’s and everything spec. Your car was parts with tigher tolerances. #2 it’s ground carbide, they should be able to hit plus or minus 0.0005" all day. It’s marketing fluff, nithing else.
Lol, I use the cheap one, works great!
If your not worried about conforming dremels if your carful work pretty well. Realy helped my 20yr old wedge
6844 yards for a pitching wedge is pretty impressive…
You should have washed the irons before sharpening. This way, only metal shavings will show.
Your average sping was 5,398 yards?? HOLY FUCK! WHAT A SPIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lmao
The spin rate is NOT expressed in ”YARDS” but in rpm (Revolutions per minute) You are saying yards for the spin rate. – Have you ever hit a 6284 yds shot with a PW ? Re edit plaese this is ridiculous !
Can I get a tutorial on how to make my clubs as illegal as possible?
Is it legal to sharpen the grooves on golf clubs?
I have had my grove x for five years. Like it for the same reason you do.
Comforms
It’s a pity the club manufacturers don’t offer this service ? The useful effective life span of wedges is crazy – wasn’t aware it was so low !😦
I have a Groovex. You didn’t mention it’s single biggest advantages over the others. Being made of high grade steel, it will stay sharp much longer. With the others, you might sharpen a club or two, only to find the tool dull. You also didn’t mention the Groovex’s biggest disadvantage, that being the fact that it has no handle. If you are doing your full iron set, your fingers get very tired of holding that tiny steel rod.
Less on simulator more on lessons…..
Golf does not have to be “a really expensive sport”. Sure, it isn’t soccer, but there are plenty of affordable muni courses, amazing deals on used clubs, etc… and no matter your prices range, golf people are amazingly cool 95% of the time, and value per hour, it is pretty good.
As for grooves, probably matters a bit for wedges (ideally you should be able to grate cheese with that 48 degree wedge), but i’m going to guess that for most of us, the problem with our game isn’t the amount of spin on our 7 iron
Spin isn’t measured in yards 😂
Did you measure spin in yards? I’m confused.
Did you know his simulator cost $50,000v
Calling ball spin yards instead of rpm
spit and a 49 cent small wire brush.
Most annoying is the fake music!
When PING EYE 2 clubs were first marketed in 1982, replacing the EYE model introduced in the 1960s, the sharp edges of the cast grooves tore-up the covers of the Balata balls so much PING milled the sharp edges off the castings. That caused USGA to say they were non-conforming because the grooves, measured edge-to-edge were too close together. The PGA also banned the PING EYE 2 from completion.
PING sued the USGA and PGA claiming their measurement method was flawed and that the correct way to measure groove spacing was from center-to-center not edge-to-edge. It won the case, got financial settlements and an exemption for PING EYE 2s from any future groove regulations. That is why in 2011 when the USGA — upset at winning scores being 20+ under par — changed the groove rules prevent the pros from just lobbing shots past the hole and spinning them back to the hole.
After the 2011 groove change some pros like Phil Mickelson who played PING EYE2 in college and Padrig Harrington put PING EYE2 61° Lob wedges in their bags. There was so much demand PING reissued the PING EYE 2 LW as the PING EYE 2 LG.
In 2011 I had just found a 3i to SW set of PING EYE2 at a thrift store for $60. The PW is 50° and SW 57°. I bought a second 50° PW for $20 and one of EYE2 LW (which cost me $120!) and took them to a shop and had them gapped to PW1 = 50°, PW2 = 53°, SW = 56° and LW = 60° and played with them until earlier this year when I found a set Mizuno TZoid SG irons and wedges for $120 😊
Who talks about dirty clubs?
This test is flawed big time.. the clubs grooves should have been cleaned before the initial test. There is now way of knowing how much increase of spin was due to cleaning and how much to sharpening.
I lost it when he said yards instead of rpm 🧐
The 20$ Groove Doctor is USGA Compliant and also has a Tungsten Carbide bit.
To say the GrooveX is worth the extra money makes me think this is a paid Advertisement for them. Now let’s talk about that testing methodology….. I think a Part 2 video is in order.
I’m assuming this is your first time doing this? The wedge will always produce the most shavings because it has the most nicks and dings on the grooves because it’s used more.
Good stuff. I have guys I play with that never clean the caked on dirt on their clubs. So stupid.
Great video ——- the whole spin thing with wedges is just one big marketing ploy.
Here’s why — if you looking for check on the greens , the spin rate which the ball has matters when it HITS THE GREEN , not when it LEAVES THE CLUB FACE.
Wind dynamics and fluid dynamics works the same, that means the square law of fluid dynamics applies to any golf ball that experience wind resistance.
So a golf ball which spins more will experience higher wind resistance than one that spins less. That means that the spin rate of a higher spinning ball will drop faster than the spin rate of a lower spinning ball when it leaves the club face.
To clarify I’ll drop an example so you understand what I mean :
New Vokey 52 degree – Spin Rate when it leaves the face – 8500rpm…. Spin rate when it hits the green 600rpm
2 Year old 52 degree Vokey – Spin rate when it leaves the face – 7500rpm …. Spin rate when it hits the green 540rpm.
So that perception consumers have is that when they hit a new wedge they gain 1000 RPM. When in fact they really only gain 60rpm which is 1 revolution per second. The primary , most important thing to any wedge shot and how it behaves on the green is the initial landing spot , followed by the grass conditions of the green which may or may not encourage backspin.
In a nutshell – the groove thing is largely meaningless
Would have liked to see testing after just cleaning and before sharpening
I use lead tape because it works.
Nice video… 2 years old now but some feedback. I just made the purchase here and decided on the cheapest one you reviewed against the GrooveX… Just cost… Decided on not paying the price of a used wedge to sharpen the grooves on my old wedges!! 😊 … One thing I did at the conclusions was work out the % improvement and these were cheapest 11.5%, second cheapest 11% and GrooveX 7%. I think the conformity issue is a factor, but you are actually trying to get back some performance on degraded clubs which are putting you at a disadvantage in the first place. I’d say buy a value product but don’t go crazy when using it.
I own the cheapo and it works great. No one at the course has ever checked the grooves on my clubs so I worry not.
How much was that $50k simulator again?
Your swing steepens on the way back
OMG. Real Golfer always clean their club head and grip after playing.
What a joke of a review🙄 worst one I’ve seen in a while
Any golfer that understands the importance of accuracy and spin plays with a clean club face.
Need to know what material the sharpener is? I’m looking for carbide.
I would recommend the HIFROM Groove Sharpener. I have this one and I only use it on my 56* SW. I also learned a trick from YouTube and you can try this as well. If your LW or SW are rusted, you can soak them overnight in a tupperware vat of Coke a Cola and that will remove most of the rust. Spray the club face with WD40, then apply the sharpener. You will get results.
I know you probably don’t have access to it, but I would love to see a before and after on a microscopic level. Not conforming measurements but rather just a zoomed in picture of the surface of the grooves. Thanks for the info. If I can get one or two more years outta my clubs I’m all for it!
GBI is watching this video to make sure you didn’t do anything illegal
Anybody that goes around with their clubs that manky, will hardly be worried obout their grooves, or spin.