Sharpening Grooves

[Fairwaysplitter3320]

Question for you guys, the SW in my i3 blade set has been ridden hard and the grooves are borderline gone, I ordered one of these: UV Groove Sharpener

Does anyone have experience with these? Or advice?

 

[Rick R]

I've not used one of those gadgets, but recently in preparing for the season, I used a small screwdriver to scrape out the grooves in all of my irons. Hardened tool steel of some screwdrivers may work as well as one of those things and why not try it.

 

[Fairwaysplitter3320]

I've not used one of those gadgets, but recently in preparing for the season, I used a small screwdriver to scrape out the grooves in all of my irons. Hardened tool steel of some screwdrivers may work as well as one of those things and why not try it.

The grooves are clean I'm looking to basically recut and sharpen them. They look kinda like this:

 

[TEA Time]

$20 for it!? Is there a machine shop near you? Go buy 3" of 1/4" D2 tool steel from them for $5 and grind it yourself.

Man, I wish I still ran a machine shop. I'd make a tool and give it to you.

 

[Fairwaysplitter3320]

$20 for it!? Is there a machine shop near you? Go buy 3" of 1/4" D2 tool steel from them for $5 and grind it yourself.

Man, I wish I still ran a machine shop. I'd make a tool and give it to you.

I too wish you could make me the tool, just called Ping they can't regroove it either because of the USGA blah, blah, blah, blah. So I guess I'll roll with my new $20 tool. Dammit.

 

[TEA Time]

 

[Fairwaysplitter3320]

The guy also said if I'm going to sharpen the grooves myself it will make the club nonconforming. While I understand the spirit of the rule it seems stupid for this application, I'm not trying to give myself an unfair advantage, if anything I'm trying to get my SW back into spec. WTF???

 

[azgreg]

If you won't be playing any tournaments sharpen them however you want. However, if you plan to enter tournaments I would just send it in to PING and have them redo the grooves. They don't charge very much to do it.

 

[Fairwaysplitter3320]

If you won't be playing any tournaments sharpen them however you want. However, if you plan to enter tournaments I would just send it in to PING and have them redo the grooves. They don't charge very much to do it.

I called Ping and they said they couldn't redo the grooves because of the USGA rules. They would however, be happy to sell me a replacement matching SW for $157.

 

[PMay]

So if I bought clubs in 2009 with U grooves and want to play in a tournament, will I have to get the grooves reshaped?

 

[Fairwaysplitter3320]

So if I bought clubs in 2009 with U grooves and want to play in a tournament, will I have to get the grooves reshaped?

Youre good until 2024, unless you adjust or resharpen your grooves.

 

[azgreg]

I called Ping and they said they couldn't redo the grooves because of the USGA rules. They would however, be happy to sell me a replacement matching SW for $157.

That's odd, because a friend of mine just had this done. However, the club he had redone originally had un-conforming grooves and when PING redid it, they did it to the new groove rule.

 

[Fairwaysplitter3320]

That's odd, because a friend of mine just had this done. However, the club he had redone originally had un-conforming grooves and when PING redid it, they did it to the new groove rule.

Then that d-bag just lied to me.

 

[eclark53520]

Then that d-bag just lied to me.

What was his name? It may have been me. I'm a pretty well known d-bag.

 

[Fairwaysplitter3320]

What was his name? It may have been me. I'm a pretty well known d-bag.

LOL, it was Jeff.