Titleist Vokey SM4 Review

SM4 is where Vokey finished adapting to the groove rule and stopped apologising for it. The TX4 grooves are cut narrower and deeper inside the new limit, every one of them measured before the head leaves the factory, and the face between them is milled to a specific roughness that does as much work as the grooves themselves. What you get is a wedge that still checks a full shot on the second bounce out of a dry lie and behaves predictably out of a wet one, which is more than the first wave of post rule wedges managed.

The real value sits in the grind matrix. F for full shots, M for the player who opens the face and sweeps, S for a steeper attack, K for soft sand and fluffy lies, L for firm turf and hands that know what they are doing. Get fitted into one of those and the wedge stops fighting your divot. Three finishes, and the oil can option rusts into something worth looking at. At a hundred and thirty nine dollars a club it was never cheap, and it lasted long enough that the price stopped mattering.