Does the C3i Wedge Actually Work? By US GOLF TV

Hey golfers Troy clunker BO here with us golf TV, I'm, the editor-in-chief, and today we're going to take another look at some golf equipment that you guys have been seen on. The Golf Channel we're here today with the c3i wedge and you guys been paying any attention at all. You may have seen Mr.59, the second Mr.59 in PGA Tour history, chip back working with the c3i wedge and really talking to the benefits and the Golf Channel kind of moves through these series, where they're working through different clubs, you guys have seen the xu1, maybe perhaps you've seen the gx7 we've done videos on both of those, and maybe we can link them up somewhere here, we'll put them for sure down in the meadow. So you guys can check those out too, but the c3 IO is kind of the next, the next step there, and so we reached out. We end up getting our hands on one, and we spent the afternoon here chipping around with it. We tried out of bunkers, we tried out of tight, lies, thicker lies more grass less grass, and we came back some interesting thoughts.

So, first, I want to talk about the golf club, we're going to start from right from the top we're talking about the golf club, what it would like to unveil it, so we literally unwrapped it. Today we peeled the plastic off. We, you know, sought glisten in the Sun and the first thing you notice that we've got the dark chrome. The black chrome face now this club, if you guys, are familiar at all with the BC one wedge. It's very, very similar in concept with some of the things I talked about here in the feud I'm going to talk about the blade, the glide sole, but one of major differences.

I noticed was a dark chrome. So if you guys tend to play a lot of golf, hopefully you love playing golf in the Sun. It's going to give you a little of a limited glare, which is nice, but then it also gives just kind of a softer different appeal to guys who, like the dark chrome, looks also the first things. I noticed. We took a look at the shaft, the grip.

It's got a standard, it's got. A standard looks like it's. Probably a dynamic, 300 shafts cut down it's the same exact length as a 60-degree wedge. This has 65 degrees of loft, but is the same exact length. So it's not going to be anything too abnormal from what you're currently hitting.

But when you dive into the technology and what it really is trying to do, all the technology lies in what they call an auto glide sole I. Think with this club. They call it the auto glide 2.0, and what that auto glide soul does. Is it enhances what the core design of a sand wedge is meant to do, which is meant to have bounce and help golfers, if you're a golfer that, when you're chipping when you're, hitting out of the bunker, when you're hitting out of thick rough, that you're really always having trouble with getting the ball to go a consistent distance, or you're? Having trouble getting it out of bad lies. This club could really help you out because I want to talk about what they call the auto glide 2.0 sole. Now this sole is designed in a way that it makes the leading edge when you set the bottom of the club down.

What's called the bounce, we've actually talked about that in a different video. It makes the leading edge sit significantly off the ground. Now I want to talk about a couple of different lies and how that may affect you having that leading edge work in such a unique way. So, first, if you're hitting it off of a tight lie, let's say you're hitting it off a very short grass, or you're, hitting it off of dirt, or you're, hitting it off a very firm sand and the bunker it's not going to be very beneficial for you having that leading edge off the ground. Due to this bounce, that I explained is going to lead to some very, very bad shots.

It's going to lead to what we call sculling it in the forehead, which is not good, but what this club is going to help you with us. If your hitting off of softer lies, maybe it's a sponge. Your lie in the fairway. Maybe it's super wet outside. Maybe the grass is thick, maybe the ball sitting up.

Maybe the sand is super fluffy. This is going to help golfers escape situations that maybe before took a lot more skill, a lot more practice and a lot more finesse, and that's because of this blade. So when I was working with this club, I wouldn't work out of a bunker, and it just got done while snowing yesterday. But if the bunkers are really wet, which meant they were like packed down, but because they were wet, they were actually pretty easy to dig out if they weren't dried out. Hard pan and I was able to really use this bounce and by just taking a normal squared off swing.

I was able to really get this Club to just effortlessly pop the ball out of the bunker, which was awesome now I tried to do some goofy things that, out of that bunker, shot I tried to open it up. I tried to use the bounce a little to hit one higher I tried to do a couple different things in the club. The club didn't seem to want to really cooperate with me. It led to a couple of skulls led to a couple shots that that did not end up on the green and that's because it's so pronounced back here that it's really designed to simplify the short game. So when you guys using this club, one of the things I want to I want to make sure you guys understand is that you guys need to be hitting this club with a very square stance.

Now square stands would mean that the club face itself is aimed directly at the target that you've also got your body aimed parallel left you're, not opening up your stance, you're, not opening up your feet that you're pretty squared off, because if you do anything where you start to open up and try to lay this club out, like a lot of other wedges you're, going to run into a lot of inconsistencies unless you're trying to hit a miraculous shot on the stick rough. So while also testing out the trio edge, we want to hit some full swing shots because we know that we're not just hitting wedge shots, we're not just using our wedges for one purpose: it's not just for typical. It's not just our bunker shots. We also use wedges to score from 40 60 80 yards out, so we went headed from some 75% to 80% wedge shots, and we really noticed that this club is first, it performs pretty well from a full swing, we're able to eat the ball fly high and land soft, but if you guys are trained at different shots, you're not going to be able to really hit it low, or you're. Going to have a harder time hit the knockdown, that's mainly because of the 65 degrees of loft and the way the club set up, but as far as the ball flying high getting it to land soft, my normal 60-degree actually of a 58 degree, the normal full 58 degrees for me is about 90 yards.

So this club, I would say if I was hitting a toy. I probably ought to pull up, 75 told a lot of it, but it's going to go high and both the shots. I hit spun really nice, so it can be used as well from the fairway for your longer shots to understand that the ball is going to go high, and it's going to land. Pretty soft so make sure you understand, you have to fly the ball to the hole location so yeah when you guys are hitting the ball out of the sticker grass out of the rough this bounce. The way that it's designed is it's going to lead the leading edge higher off the ground which is going to help you guys not chunk it.

It's going to help advance the ball out should pop out much easier. That's exactly what they market on the commercials. You'll see the ball pop out. Land softer fly higher, and that's also why it's got 65 degrees of loft is to help you guys do that now. One other thing I wanted to take in I understand this is a brand-new club.

We just unwrapped it today and the grooves are fresh, but they've also designed the center of gravity which you as may see it on. That website is called Co G. The center of gravity is designed in a way to really optimize. The spin and I didn't really realize that until I opened it up, I hit a couple shots and the ball was literally bounce stop, and- and after doing some further research I found yeah. This club is actually optimized.

It's actually designed to spin the ball more, which, if you guys, are struggling with keeping the ball on the green, if you guys are struggling with putting any spin on the ball whatsoever. Having a club, that's designed to increase your spin around the green, it's going to help you guys hold more shots on the green, keep some closer pausing and hopefully save some shots while you're playing. So that's absolutely something that I noticed and when they market it. When they say that's optimized for more spin I'll tell you it! It is it's its fun, a lot more for me and that's if you guys, you guys use it correctly. If you guys are understanding how this interacts with the turf, it's absolutely going to help you so the c3i wedge, if you're a golfer that struggles with hitting the ball chunking, it sculling it over.

The greens- and you just can't seem to get your short game figured out. The c3 I would be a nice addition to your bag. Now there are a lot of things that, if you're trying to develop skill in certain shots, this the c3 I might not be a great fit, but if you're just looking for a shot that just get me out of the bunker Troy just get me up onto the green, get me within 15 feet. I want to be able to have a chance to make a par bogey. This club could really help alleviate a lot of the struggles that some of you guys are facing every day.

Now at US golf TV, we really want to help you guys improve your game beyond just giving you a club, that's going to be a magic fix. All we have tons of instruction, especially with chipping Todd Kola. Our director of instructions done some phenomenal stuff on chipping he's talked about the bounce. All the things talk about in this video, how a club interacts with the turf and spin he's talked about all this, and you guys can use those as further resources to hopefully develop your skills to where you may not need a c3i wedge to advance the ball out of the bunker to do different things, so I would really encourage you guys to check those out. We've also got a full review of the c3i wedge written on our website, and we drove into some more of the specifics later that I'll, we guy we can drive you guys to the website.

So you guys can take a look at this club a little more here from chip back the spokesman for the club, but we hope you guys enjoyed this. Do you guys need anything more? You guys feel free to leave comments below interact with us. Tell us your thoughts. Have you used it that it worked at a not work? We'd love to hear from you guys in the comments and continue that dialogue, but you guys want to learn more about anything else in the game of golf, we're posting stuff. All the time on our website us golf UV, follow us on Twitter.

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