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Almost a third of all entries still without a pick on this Olympic hangover tourney.

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Never give up, never surrender!

Funniest personal story:
Watching my buddy hit it out of bounds twice on the last hole of a tourney and throw his entire bag of clubs in the pond to immediately regretting it and jumping in after them. Priceless memory. 

Thats one of the very few shafts I havnt hit yet.  

Thats one of the very few shafts I havnt hit yet.  

It’s funny you mention the Ventus black. I was gaming the Aretera Alpha One Grey 65/4 shaft before this review and that shaft screams Ventus black but with better feel for me. 

Interested in the full review of the VF.  I have it in the 5x and find it to be crazy similar to a ventus black. 

Interested in the full review of the VF.  I have it in the 5x and find it to be crazy similar to a ventus black. 

Yeah mine can't even stay in the garage here. Temp today was 92 and when I got in the truck this afternoon it showed 120.  
Garages here aren't insulated and get just as hot almost. 

Oh, wow.  I'm in SoCal, and it definitely gets hot here.  I store mine in the garage, where it routinely gets upwards of 90+ degrees - but my understanding is cars (due to a smaller space directly in the sun) would get even hotter - based on some incredibly preliminary internet searches, cars can get upwards of 120 degrees when the weather is only 75, which is crazy. 
Good advice, and thanks for sharing!

I'm curious as to what are some of the career aspirations of the various forum members.  I just signed up for this forum in March and I really enjoy reading about others experiences. I'll be 42 in August. I've been a single digit handicap for the last 27 years.  I've been a scratch for the last 3 years. It's a pipe dream, but I want to qualify for a pro event someday.  At this rate I'm looking more toward senior competition. What about the rest of you?  Play for fun, competition, or both? 

It's definitely a great ball.  Ever since I introduced one of my Men's buddies to the Chrome Tour ball that is all he plays.  He loves it.

Motocross and fishing but golf has taken over for the most part, now that I have two little girls. 

I got hurt before amateur nationals a few years ago and my wife and owner of the company I work told me it was time to slow down 👎

Motocross and fishing but golf has taken over for the most part, now that I have two little girls. 

Thanks TSau!

My buddy recently inherited his grandpas putters and is wanting to restore and find which shaft and grip it needs.  He mainly wants to restore the pebble beach one.
 
Hoping you guys can help get me all the info possible on these amazing vintage putter heads. 
golf design usa is who must have produced them  
gold head says: 66th pga championship Shoal Creek. 

Other head says: US Open 1982 Pebble Beach

Hard to really tell what shafts they use. This eBay listing shows a shaft that screws together and looks like it can be used for both heads. But, I’m also seeing them with hickory and steel shafts. 

Here’s a couple links to hickory shafts: 
TadMoore and Louisville Golf
 

My buddy recently inherited his grandpas putters and is wanting to restore and find which shaft and grip it needs.  He mainly wants to restore the pebble beach one.
 
Hoping you guys can help get me all the info possible on these amazing vintage putter heads. 
golf design usa is who must have produced them  
gold head says: 66th pga championship Shoal Creek. 

Other head says: US Open 1982 Pebble Beach

For $20 that is a steal to use a trackman.  Im going to do this just for fun now. 😂

Just picked up the mgs deal on the shotscope range finder.  
just wanted to let you all know it was $101 with code andysgolf added to it. 

Just picked up the mgs deal on the shotscope range finder.  
just wanted to let you all know it was $101 with code andysgolf added to it. 

Look forward to your review!

Just picked up the mgs deal on the shotscope range finder.  
just wanted to let you all know it was $101 with code andysgolf added to it. 

Black cyberpunk youtube intro.mp4 Introduction:
Hello, my fellow golf nerds and welcome to my Edison 2.0 review!  My name is Taylor Goff, yes I know my last name is very fitting, right? I used to get teased at golf tourneys growing up every time they announced my name.  I hail from a super small country town called, Belle, Missouri. We are known for the largest Kingsford Charcoal Plant. I was introduced into golf when I was 12 years old. By age 14 I decided to play local tournaments and had a couple wins but my biggest highlights were on our local LOJPGA (Lake Ozarks Junior Golf Association) Series. I played in the LOJPGA Series two years and qualified top 8 each year in my age division to advance to a two-day tourney at Osage National (Arnold Palmer Course).  When I got to high school, I was too occupied in other high school stuff and quit playing golf for a solid 5+ years and picked it back up again heavily in 2017.  I am now completely addicted to golf and even put in a golf simulator in my shop.
But my pride and joys are my Wife and kids. I have been married to my wife for 8 years and have two beautiful daughters, age 6 and 2. My activities outside of golf are church, motocross, traveling and coaching my daughters sports teams. I am 31 years old and for work I am a mobile banking software developer.
Family Slideshow below:

familyslideshow.mp4 I am a long time member at my local 9 hole course and participate in league nights every Tuesday and also our annual out of state golf trips. Our group of guys are as fun as you will see. We do an annual "Jortsfest Tournament" and also a "$hitfest Match".  Jortsfest is a match play or Ryder cup style(depending on year). $hitfest is two teams battle it out for 9 holes where mulligans can be used as much as you want as long as a team member finishes their drink(this gets pretty rowdy). Pic Below:

My Golf Game:
Handicap: 6
Average Swing Speed (Driver): 112mph
Weakness: Putting
Strength: Wedges (specifically 90 yards and in)
Swing Look-a-like: John Daly (trying to shorten my swing this offseason)
Gamer Ball: ProV1 left dash (helps with my high spin) 
 Driver: Titleist TSR4 9* with OG Ventus Black 6X
 Irons: Mizuno MP225 4-GW
Wedges: Titleist Vokey SM9 52 & 56 stiff 
Putter: L.A.B. Link.1 

I am beyond excited to get my Edison 2.0 wedges delivered and will certainly test out their claims/technology.
Time/testing will tell if these Edison 2.0 wedges will knock the Vokeys out of my bag.
I hit my wedges high and short compared to players around me and Edison claims these wedges are further and lower, so I feel as this could put a huge smile on my face and also lower my scores! Keep following along as I will update this post quite often. 

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First Impressions (18 out of 20
Let me first start by discussing the Edison Technology:
Higher CG than any other wedge Meaning: more weight higher in the face(up to 45% more than your current wedges) Benefits: More consistent trajectory, little more distance, more spin and just overall more consistent wedge shots. Also lower ball flight Koehler Sole Meaning: the Edison 2.0 sole combines a high bounce angle in the front of the sole with a low bounce angle in the back of the sole. This makes it less confusing to choose between various bounces/grinds from other wedge manufacturers and also claiming to have for confidence in your wedge shots Benefits: Increases versatility because most of us golfers do not know what the lie and turf conditions will be on our next shot. Great turf interaction and gets through the grass quickly. X-pattern progressive club face Meaning: the face and grooves Edison 2.0 wedges use are pushed as far as they can go without going over the USGA limit. Wider/deeper grooves in the lower loft wedges for full shots and higher lofts the grooves are a bit closer together to increase groove contact. Also to note Edison say the clubhead design has a greater impact on spin than the club face since the USGA has limited the face treatment for 15 years. Benefits: Increase of spin consistency on all types of shots
Aesthetics: 8/10
The finish is a very nice satin pearl chrome that I really enjoy looking down at. No glare in the sun or shop lights. 
The general shaping of the wedge is a bit bubbly and round which I actually think looks pretty nice since all of the edges end up uniforming together. 
Looking down at address the wedge bounce lays super nice and inspires confidence if I need to open or close that face for tough shots.
Color fill for the letters is a bronze color that matches the bronze stripe ferrule(very nice little fine detail). 
Top line is pretty chunky when looking down at the ball and that is my only point deduction. I understand that the mass being higher makes that hard to fix. 
Odd number loft badging: not really an odd number guy 🤣 and would rather see them in even numbers. 
 
Feel: 10/10
Feel is great and can tell the 5X forged 1025 carbon steel has a solid but soft feeling at impact. I associate sound to feel as well and they sound just like my sm9 vokeys and are a nice crisp sound which results in solid but soft feel for me.  Also noticed on mishits that the feel doesn't vibrate up your hands or make a louder noticeable sound. Mishits are just more forgiving so far for me than other wedges. Here is some side by side comparisons between my sm9 Vokey gamers and the Edison 2.0 wedges:

I have had other players ask what kind of wedge I am using. Once I explain the technology they all are super interested in hitting them. But will say they kind of look at me odd when I tell them there is not a standard bounce. 
 
SLOW-MO Wedge Video below:

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The Numbers (9 out of 10)
52 Full Shot Data below:
Note: -same amount of shots taken with each, removed noticeably bad shots from data, - same ball model was used for entire testing

56 Full Shot Data:

Dispersion: This is super close but when playing rounds I could notice poor strikes seems to not stray off path as bad. So I will give the nod to Edison.
Bonus: I had a very high handicap player test these out a couple sessions and I wish I had saved his data but the difference the edisons made in his dispersion was a game changer compared to his clevelands and my vokeys.
Trajectory: Edison takes this one but it was not too noticeable without the numbers.
Edison’s lower launching claim is real even if my experience was minor.
Forgiveness: Edison takes this one simply because I noticed off toe or heel strikes that the spin numbers did not deviate greatly and also the ball stayed on track a little bit better.
Spin: Fairly close but the vokeys do spin a touch more. My vokeys used are a season old. The edisons were close though! Spin is very important to me and my game so I have to deduct a point because new wedges should spin more in my opinion.
Control: I favored the edisons again!
The more I gamed these the easier it was to just focus on my target and not having bad swing thoughts.. sounds silly but the thicker top line grew on me and made me at ease every wedge shot. I knew if I hit them high in the face they would not punish me as much.
Workability: I give the nod to vokey but this category does not interest me that well. I am not a scratch player so I keep my wedge shots simple. Point and shoot.
The edisons seem to stay straighter when exaggerating a shot shape and that is what I like! The vokeys can ‘sling’ a little better but when doing some slingers I would have a way bigger dispersion. lol
My club path was more In-to-Out with the Edison which is great because I am working on that! 
 
On-Course (19 out of 20)
Day 1 on the course was a bit of a learning curve, I was mainly not used to the different bounce compared to my vokeys. I quickly learned the 2nd day on the course to trust the bounce more even though it just was not the normal vokey look I was used to. The turf interaction was great once I committed to the edisons and then found out that I was hitting them a little bit further after flying over some greens inside 100 yards. I don’t notice any more dig compared to the vokeys. 
So after a few more course days I was totally digging the edisons but I still had the mindset that I could not swap my vokeys for them. Well after several more rounds with them I quickly realized I was growing on them and the edisons just seemed easier to hit than my vokeys. I still needed that hard data proof to make the switch(I live in the show-me-state Missouri) or I am keeping my vokeys! So after several late night sessions in the simulator and seeing all the data I was convinced that these edisons are just slightly better for my game.
 
On-Course greenside chip comparison:

Small Chips: For the small greenside chips in slightly fluffy lies both wedges performed pretty similar so I do not have any complaints. 
 
The Good, the bad, the in-between (19 out of 20)
The Wet Test: For the ‘wet test’ I dunked the wedges in water right before each shot. Data below:

The results: Edison really ran away with this test.. You can see above that it won in every category but spin/ball speed was an impressive takeaway. All those players out there who play in the rain a lot should take note of this! 
 
The High Striker Test: This is the one I was excited for that would really test the edison claim of the benefits of the higher CG face. I tee’d up every shot about a half inch to make sure I was striking the ball high on the wedge faces. 
Test results below:

The results: Edisons claims are real again! This one was unreal to me on how much higher the ball speeds were when struck high in the face! We are talking almost 5 mph difference which could be huge on those slight high mishits that would normally knuckle spin and land well short of the green. My course has fluffy fairways and this is so beneficial to see the data! 
The Bad: Really the only thing I did not like about them is the thicker topline and maybe I would expect a tiny bit more spin just because my 1 year old vokeys kept up with spin numbers. I am really curious how much spin I will lose after gaming them for a season. Hopefully I can remember to update you guys next year at this time. Someone hold me accountable. 🙂

 
Play it or Trade it? (19 out of 20)
These opened my eyes just enough to game them this year and next. I really did enjoy the process of doing this review and hope to do more in the future! As said before I don’t love the top line but I realize they need that slightly bigger for the Higher CG and that results with great misses.

 
Conclusion
I am going to shoot you straight. On my first day with the edison wedges I thought all the claims were too good to be true and you could not pry the vokeys out of my bag… well I was so so wrong about this! The edison 2.0 wedges are going in my bag and all of their claims were true for myself. Some may be small but in the difficult game of golf any advantage I will always try to take! Make sure you give them a try. I think more and more people could benefit from them and I do believe all higher handicaps should use them as my tests have proven they do help! 

 
FINAL SCORE (94 out of 100)
 
 
 

There are different beliefs in lie angle. Some fitters have you hit on a lie board and give your lie based on that. Others actually look at strike location on the face and ball flight to help determine your optimal lie. There's definitely no standard though, as standard lie angle can be different from one company to another. It's also different throughout your bag. I play my driver upright, fairways, hybrids, and irons standard, wedges and putter flat. My wedges are Edison standard but we're 0.5° flatter than most.