News Lee Trevino sounds off on slow play, cites Jack Nicklaus penalty as model By:Īnd then Trevino got into the 60 degree, which started to become popular in the ‘80s. But you know, I played my hands forward and the ball back so actually the bounce on the club was only like 13 by the time I hit the ball. “It had about 22 degrees of bounce on it. “One of the best clubs that I ever had, believe it or not, was the Sandy Andy,” he said on the show. How valuable, how important is the 60-degree in today’s game for this modern player versus when you were out playing with that big, Wilson, thick sole, R-90 wedge that was easy to get out of a bunker but very difficult to hit high-lofted shots around the greens with?” “I remember having a conversation with Byron Nelson at Augusta National, and he said there were two things in his era of player that the advantage that the modern player has over his era of player - one, was to your point, the conditions of the golf course and trying to figure out a way if you had a flier lie in the middle of the fairway, and the second was the 60-degree wedge. He’s a wedge whisperer.Īnd on his show, Breed asked Trevino this: “Lee Trevino short game” is a treasure trove. And Trevino, as good as he can turn a phrase, can just as easily translate the short game. First, you should listen to Breed’s show regularly, and you can do so here. And before we get into their fascinating exchange, we must note a couple of things. Host Michael Breed, a longtime and acclaimed teaching pro, had relayed the Nelson thought to Trevino. The conversation came up this week on the A New Breed of Golf show on SiriusXM.
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