Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from a piece our Andrew Tursky filed for PGATour.com’s Equipment Report. In the piece, Tursky speaks with Vokey Wedge Rep Aaron Dill about Jordan Spieth’s unique lob wedge. Read the full article here. 

As the story goes, one day, when Spieth was doing swing work with his coach Cameron McCormick, an old, rusty wedge sitting in the corner of the room caught his eye. Naturally, as golfers do, Spieth put the wedge in his hands and pretended to approach a chip shot with it, and the nostalgia ran through his veins.

“Oh my gosh, this is such a nostalgic connection for me,” Spieth said about the rusty wedge, according to Dill.

Funny enough, the wedge was actually a Vokey SM7 prototype wedge that Spieth used to play with on the PGA Tour. Soon after he picked up the rusted wedge, Dill received a call from Spieth, who requested a new version of the wedge.

Dill, who listens intently to PGA Tour players’ feedback on wedges and who works every week to deliver exactly what his players need, started asking Spieth questions to ensure he was able to make exactly what Spieth wanted.

“What is it about the wedge that you love?” Dill asked Spieth.

“It’s basically just the profile,” Spieth said. “[The heel section] looks a little pinched… I love that. I feel like when it’s a little bit smaller, I strike it a little better. I pay a little more attention. I’m more connected to it visually.”

So, Dill dug up a backup version of the wedge from his inventory stash on the Tour truck, and he also tracked down some old drawings of the wedge. Since that particular wedge is no longer in production, Dill sought to combine Spieth’s preferred profile shape with the modern Vokey SM10 technology.

Then, Dill got to work doing what he does best: hit the wedge grinding wheel, and match the shape of what PGA Tour players want to see.

The result? Well, Spieth is still using that same wedge that Dill concocted today.

“For somebody like Jordan, who lives in this kind of cool world of nostalgia, he picked this up and goes, ‘Oh my gosh, this is something I’ve been missing,’” Dill explained. And that’s the wedge we make for him today.

Read the full piece on PGATour.com.