Holmes and Glover Say the Bermudagrass Jumps

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Published: May 8, 2010

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US Open champ Lucas Glover added a 64 degree wedge to his bag for The Players Championship to handle the Bermuda rough.

But he also made a change in strategy.

“I just tried to get the ball in the fairway because I'm not very good out of that four-inch Bermuda with our new grooves,” Glover said after firing a second round 65. 

He didn’t need it at Augusta National although he did need his three-iron and five-wood there.

He waited through Hilton Head and made the switch at Quail Hollow.

“I was having some trouble spinning it enough, even out of the fairway. So I wanted that for that,” he said. 

He discovered the importance of the 64 degree club while practicing.

“Working at home with it, around the greens, it's really an advantage because the ball gets up quick, and I think, and it downs soft,” he explained about the reason for using the club. “It's enabled me to spin it a little more around the greens. It's a fit. Now the hard part is finding that 235 club I like, 240, but we're working on it. I think I've got one.”

For Glover the 64 degree addition is to adjust for the V grooves.

“Some guys are going to treat it a little different,” he added. “Lower their loft because face angle of attack, different stuff.”

The other thing Glover did was to change his strategy around TPC Sawgrass.

“The way the rough is, and the way the groove is now, you've got to be in the fairway,” he said. “You've got to be in the fairway to attack the pins. And that's no secret. It's pretty much everywhere now with the grooves the way they are that's just the way it is. But here for me it's more.

“Other guys are different. I'm not as good out of the rough as some guys. But, you know, I've got to be in the fairway to get birdie putts, and that was ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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