Changing the loft on your wedges will definitely change the bounce. FYI, the bounce in your 716 AP2's is now 2-degrees lower than stock. If you want to maintain a 4 degree gap in wedges and not change wedge bounce, you can purchase a 48, 52 and 56 Vokey.

What will the two degrees strong and now changed bounce due to my swing and club to ball contact? What should I notice or what would I gain by going back to standard loft?

Why not bend your 50 to 49? You also may want to practice choking down. 1/2" for a 10 yard change. You can choke your PW a full inch and that will come close in distance to the GW.

Also remember that set wedges get about 10 more yards than Vokeys do. I have an old set of forged Apx irons and the F wedge is 50*. I get about 95-100 yards out of it and 75-80 out of my SM4 56-11. I would get 90 yards tops out of my SM4 52-12 (bent to 53).

I purchased a new set of 716 AP 1's. The pitching wedge loft is 43*. I went with the SM5 48*, 54* & 60*. They are working quite well.

Hi THearn,

Have you looked into fine tuning the lofts throughout the set? May be only make the PW 1* strong to a 45* and then push your 50* to a 48.5*?

What are your typical gaps for the rest of the set?

As far as bounce, if you don't already notice the affect, then don't worry about it. Just make ball-first contact.

Spud