Edel Golf Podcast

Today we’re going to dispel a long-held myth that we can’t fit for wedges indoors. Such is not the case. The process starts with having the proper mat so that we can analyze turf interaction. Just any old concrete, worn out mat won’t do the trick. In actuality, the right mat can be just as good as hitting shots of proper turf. Nonetheless, having the right mat is imperative. If you listened to our previous podcast, you know that we’ve launched our new SMS line of wedges. When fitting...

We're back! It’s good to be back and I wanted to kick off by talking about our SMS wedge that we launched last year. It incorporates the Swing Match Weighting System, which utilizes three weight ports in the back of the wedge. Two dummy weights are light and one is heavy. Our fitting system allows us to optimize these weights based on every person’s swing type. This system is centered upon the leverage we put on the club as we swing. It took some experimentation to come up with it, but what...

Heath is a four-time PGA Tour winner and getting ready to start competing again after a hiatus. He recently went through our putter fitting process and said it was “it was very eye-opening… It opened my mind to what I was missing for such a long time… I’ve got a putter and wedges in my bag I know I can count on.” For Heath, “Understanding is knowledge, and knowledge is power.” Here at Edel, we’re about to release our new wedge line which has variable weighting. Heath says this new line of...

Welcome back to another edition of the Edel Podcast. Today, we have the pleasure of sitting down with my longtime friend, Mike Adams. To this day, Mike continues to mentor both students and teachers. He’s a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame and has worked with the majority of the Top 100 Teachers. I ask Mike what biomechanics means to him. He says it’s “It’s the study of human movement and how people move in time and space.” Mike got started in the biomechanics sphere when his wife...

Welcome back to the Edel Podcast. On this week’s installment, we have the pleasure of sitting down with Terry Rowles. Terry is a Top 100 Instructor who works with a host of PGA and LPGA Tour players. When I asked Terry who some of the other people he’s been influenced by, he said “technology has been a good friend… and before that I worked with David Ledbetter in the late 90’s and early 2000’s which stimulated me to think about a holistic approach to golf…” Terry points to the importance...

Today, we’re lucky to be joined by Mike Schy. His coaching philosophy and methods have helped thousands of golfers improve from beginners to Tour Players, including Bryson DeChambeau. More than anything else, Mike is passionate about helping people. Even more, he thinks outside the box. That’s evidenced by the work he’s done with players like Bryson DeChambeau. His philosophy on teaching constantly evolves. He’s always seeking out new information and loves to learn. He says, ”the longer I...

Welcome back to the Edel Golf Podcast. Today we’re taking another listener question about aim markings on a driver and aim bias in regard to offset vs. no offset. The question specifically reads “how does the same aim bias due to lines on a putter also apply to markings apply to other clubs in the bag such as the driver?” To answer this question, let’s start with a story from a longtime Edel Golf friend, Lon Hinkle. After we did a putter fitting with Lon, he said to me, “you know what,...

Usually when golfers forward press, they’re “trying to take something away.” Some people say they need something to get the stroke going. In reality, the reason they “can’t get the wheels going is because they know if they stay in the position they’re in at address, with the aim bias that accompanies that issue… they know that nothing good is going to happen from it.” Let’s talk about what a forward press is. It’s the “changing of a vector… which is a power angle, like hitting a cue ball...

We’re lucky to be joined in-studio by In Gee Chun. She’s twice been a major champion on the LPGA Tour winning the Evian Masters and U.S. Open as well another LGPA event. Altogether, she has 14 worldwide wins. When I asked In Gee Chun about the things she’s learned from the Edel fitting process, she says it changed her “whole perception of the game, especially the scoring clubs.” Going through the fitting process, one of the things she learned most was about the right setup for her game and...

The Perception of Reality If you listened to Bryson DeChambeau talk during the U.S. Open, he spoke about this very concept with his putting and how his goal was to match both perception and reality. The secret to becoming a great player is to “match what you see and match what you feel and match it against reality.” When it comes to selecting a putter, most golfers take what they see and feel, and hope that it matches reality. It doesn’t have to be that way because there is an exact...

Today’s question is “How do you go about switching from radial to linear and what are some drills?” Even though this process is multi-faceted, it’s generally easier than people think. In order to answer this question, we have to start with the assumption that radial strokes are more complicated than linear strokes. To that end, most of the game’s greatest putters have had linear strokes. If you’re trying to move from a radial stroke to a linear stroke, you first have to understand that...

Our question for today is “Do your aim and eye position directly correlate to each other?” This isn’t a yes or no answer. Everybody has different perceptions. With that being said, the most obvious correlation is with eye dominance. Left eye dominant players “tend to leave the shaft more forward and right eye dominant players tend to lean the shaft back.” When we see aim bias, there tends to be a lot of head rotation. The is especially true with right-handed golfers that exhibit left aim...

When you think about Texas golf, names like Hogan, Nelson, Mangrum, Crenshaw, Kite, and Speith come to mind just to name a few. Over the years, however, there’s one PGA Tour player I like sitting down to have a beer with more than most. That’s Rich Beem. The proud son of El Paso Country Club, you probably remember Rich Beem as the winner of the 2002 PGA Championship at Hazeltine in Minnesota. Though he’s played less and less in recent years on the PGA Tour, he’s gearing up for the...

If you’re a regular listener to our podcasts at Edel, you’ve certainly come to realize that we aren’t afraid to think outside of the box. While bigger companies are primarily concerned with mass production and getting their products into the hands of as many golfers as possible, our sole mission is to help people play better golf and have more fun. That’s why we continually spend our time and resources trying to find methods and perfect equipment that makes the game easier. While we’re...

In this installment of the Edel Golf Podcast, we debunk yet another myth when it comes to putting. This week, we’re discussing MOI, or moment of inertia. This term gets tossed around a lot when we talk about the forgiveness and stability of drivers, fairway woods, hybrids, and irons. In recent years, it’s also become frequent parlance in the world of putters. On the surface, the concept of “having equal mass on both ends of the playing field... makes sense…” However, when it comes to...

Welcome back to the Edel Golf Podcast. This week we’re going to talk about one of the biggest misconceptions out there when it comes to putters. That’s the widely held perception of toe hang vs. face balance and arc vs. straight back, straight through putting. There’s been a lot of misinformation about this with some of the big EOM’s and we’re here to hopefully correct some of that information so that you can become a better putter. What’s perpetuated this myth perhaps more than anything...

In this installment of the Edel Golf Podcast, we discuss one of the most important aspects of putting. Having an understanding of this principle is really the key to unlocking your potential as a putter. We’re talking about your personal body type. Specifically, “how your arms’ lengths and fold patterns influence your stroke.” All the game’s great putters had keen perception systems that were in alignment with how they physically putted. To that end, each player looked different when they...

Welcome back to the Edel Golf Podcast! In today’s episode, I want to talk with you about something that means a lot to me personally. Having been a PGA Professional for nearly 25 years, it’s important for me to recognize the people who have helped me throughout my entire career as a player, teacher, and clubmaker. My hope is that you, as a listener, seek some of these people out and learn from the knowledge they have to share. The first individual is the late Ben Doyle. He was the first...

Welcome back to the Edel Golf Podcast. This week we received a question about arm lock putting. To start, I think this style of putting is a tremendously complicated process. However, “If you’re having success with it, who am I to say don’t do it?” When I see people switch to arm lock putting, they’re usually “survivors from long putters or belly putters.” What I’ve found is that the complications with arm lock putting stem from the fact that it “doesn’t match your slot.” Arm lock putting...

Welcome back to another installment of the Edel Golf Podcast. One of the things I love so much about doing these is that it allows me to interact with our listeners and customers. I recently received a question from a listener asking, “What is your experience with grips in the marketplace and why did you design your own?” As part of developing our putter fitting process, I had to find a way to make round grips interchangeable. I initially came across round grips from Natural Golf, which...