I SHARPENED MY GOLF GROOVES!!!!!

as golfers we know the importance of grooves on golf clubs in the past I have covered the grooves up with some tape I've also tested a wedge with no grooves at all but what happens when you sharpen your grooves I found the meanest looking sharp and it online I've got a couple of old golf clubs we're gonna sharpen the grooves up and see exactly what happens hi guys i'm rick shields PGA golf professional if you enjoy this video make sure you smash the like and also tell a friend share the video around but if you're a longtime viewer to this channel you might recognize these irons I've got my old 7-iron from Ben Hogan set that I used and an old sm6 Voki wedge I went online to find the meanest looking sharp and I could find and it's arrived today we're gonna open it I'm gonna sharpen up the grooves but before they're done I wanted to see how these clubs performed on GC quad seeing that I've not used them for a long time let's see ideally distance and spin number but spin number is the one that I'm focusing on mainly I hit some shots with the 7-iron though feels as good as ever carrying the ball 172 yards and the ball on average was spinning at 6200 which is pretty standard good still for an iron that's been used in the bag for a while be interesting to see what happens with some sharper grooves and I hate but sm6 56° are carrying at 105 yards I'm spinning it on average at 11,000 rpm I'm gonna go to town with the sharpener with a sharpen up the grooves see if it has any influence on the spin numbers and if it has an influence on the even the distance let's open the packet and see what this tool looks like so here we have it you might guess where I've got it from that's it let's open it up this was the meanest looking one I could find a line there's a little cylinder look at the edges on that so safety precautions are needed do not try this at home I am a professional okay so I've done a little bit of prep work but a little bit of tape on the toe and the heel so don't scratch it I'm gonna put a little tiny square of lubricant how's a lot I'm gonna go to town okay [Music] that is ridiculous I've absolutely gone to town on that wedge sad seeing the black finish but I could definitely see kind of almost shards of metal coming out it's remarkably cleaner I feel like those those grooves are definitely sharper compared to before it was so interesting to see how that compares but I did not hold back there right onto the 7-iron the Ben Hogan 7-iron I'm looking forward to see if that spindle or something maybe about ten minutes and I just that's it let's get on the seven I next okay lost those it I need to rest so not to me is now got to deem this club and the sandwich illegal because I went in there think if you went lightly you probably get away with it but it's not really a groove cleaner that's opposed to groove sharpness so now both clubs are primed sharpened as hard as I can sharpen them let's get em back on GC quad to see if it makes much difference I'm excited I'm excited to see if there's much spin and again from these new sharpened groups so can this little gadget make any difference my grooves now sharper which could influence more speed we'll find out and excited to see I've just used a brand new golf ball because one thing I'm also interested in see if it actually rips the cover of the golf ball anymore because I say visually they definitely look sharp it's whether actually they are and I hit the shot so with a 7-iron I was getting about 6,200 spin let's see what it looks like now with the new sharp and 7-iron that was ripped signs will promise him for the groove sharpener I was somewhat skeptical but those two shots there's definitely some difference that's got one more so I would say that we're very familiar shots to the first three that hit with the grooves not sharpened we'll have a look at what the results look like in a second let's hit the sand wedge and I'm love look at some numbers okay new sharp and Sun wedge time it's hard to tell on the black finish how much it was going in but I definitely saw shards of metal coming out of those grooves and they're a lot cleaner right that's so hit a few shots 11,000 was a spin on the 56 okay that was that was definitely spin yeah mmm okay a couple more promising sign sitting on the spin numbers I'll tell you what that has really surprised me I look at the numbers see the ball oh yeah a bit more damage than what I'd normally see on the golf ball ah there is definitely a bit more of a cutting oh that's only six shots that was a brand new probably 1 X may be sharper grooves but you're gonna go through more golf balls as pull the numbers up and see if there's much difference in the spin at all so was there much of a difference compared to the unsharpened grooves - now the shaft and grooves the first thing I want to look at was the distance and there was no difference distance at all I would imagine there would be so 7-iron understand wedge there was no difference there then I looked into spin rate is this finger increase with sharpened grooves and from my testing I found there was an increase of spin with the 7-iron and the sand wedge with sharpened grooves by about 600 rpm which is a difference how much that equates to out on the golf course is hard to tell my only concern now I feel like I went into these groups so much I can't imagine these clubs now being legal I really did go into those there was shards of metal coming out and that can't be good at all then you gotta be careful of any kind of I don't know gimmicky or gadget things like this obviously restoring old clubs is key but go and seek professional help going make sure you even send them back to the manufacturer see if they can do in-house because then you know the clubs are legal doing anything like this yourself always runs the risk of pushing that barrier too far and demon now these clubs illegal did we see a difference in spin with the sharpener yes is it enough of a difference to possibly jeopardize your golf clubs and make them non-conforming for competitive use I would say no guys thanks for watching hopefully enjoyed the video if you did smash that like button share the video around to your friends we'll see you next time that was the sharpen grooves by poor several and they still love this club can't use it in competition anymore we'll see you next time [Music]

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Length: 7min 57sec (477 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 18 2019