Cam Young’s first PGA Tour win came with a boatload of cool gear nuggets from his new Titleist prototype Pro V1x golf ball to a switch to Golf Pride’s new MCC Align Max grips to his one-off Titleist 631.CY iron set.
But he’s another data point in an intriguing wedge trend with players flocking toward Vokey’s K* grind lob wedges.
Young plays a WedgeWorks 60K* bent to 62˚ to add bounce and his Wyndham Championship victory was the second in a row for the unique wedge grind and third this summer after Kurt Kitayama at the 3M Open and Aldrich Potgieter at the Rocket Classic.
The K*, which was introduced to the Vokey WedgeWorks program late last year, but has been around on Tour for several years before then, has quickly become one of the most popular lob wedges on Tour this season.
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