Stewart Cink Puts Duct Tape On His Wedges!

In his weekly notes column, Doug Ferguson leads with Stewart Cink offering compelling evidence that he has too much free time on his hands, putting duct tape on his wedges to see how little fun golf can be to see what it's like to play with no spin.

With new regulations for grooves to take effect next year, the British Open champion wanted to experiment with clubs that spin less than his current wedges. He took it to the extreme by covering them with duct tape.

“I played a round of golf and practiced with them for a week or so, just to see what it was like with zero spin,” Cink said Tuesday. “Because with tape over the wedges – duct tape, in fact – there was no spin. And it was really not fun to play golf that way.”

His thought was that using duct tape on his wedge would make him feel like the new wedges produced more spin than they did. That might have worked, but only for a little while.

“I quickly adjusted back to realizing that the new grooves don’t spin that great,” Cink said.