“The first CNC Spin Milled face, the wedge that made Vokey the tour standard. Steel-dominant players' club; a wedge a member has trusted this long is kept, not replaced, unless the grooves are gone.”
The Spin Milled project traces back to 2001, when Bob Vokey's team introduced its first Spin Milled wedge; by 2004 Vokey wedges had already become the most-played wedge brand on the PGA Tour. This entry covers the late-2000s unnumbered generation, which sat at the peak of that pre-numbered run right before Titleist moved to the now-familiar SM2/SM3-onward naming in 2009-2011. Its milled, aggressively-toleranced grooves produced spin numbers that the 2010 USGA/R&A groove-conformity rule change would force every manufacturer, Vokey included, to soften going forward - making this generation the last of the 'hot groove' Vokeys.
Independent retrospectives (The Sand Trap's dedicated 'Vokey Spin Milled Wedge Review,' GolfLink's 'Complete Guide to Vokey Spin Milled Wedges Past and Present') single this generation out as the reference point wedge players still cite when arguing newer, rule-conforming Vokeys spin less. It predates the 2010 groove rule, giving it 'outlaw' spin performance current wedges cannot legally replicate - the same grandfather dynamic that made the Ping Eye 2 famous, applied to wedges instead of irons.
Better players and short-game specialists chasing maximum legal (at the time) spin, comfortable fitting into a narrower grind lineup than modern Vokeys offer.
Direct predecessor to the numbered SM-series that began with the SM2 in 2009 and runs through today's SM10 (2024); its grooves are the pre-rule-change benchmark wedge nerds compare later generations against.
Fewer and narrower grind options than the mature modern F/S/M/K/L/D matrix Vokey later settled into, plus a small, thin-topline players head - this was a precision spin tool built for a specific strike, not a forgiveness-oriented wedge.
Calibrated across the whole catalog — a tour blade scores low here on purpose; it means control, not ease.
Clean examples run roughly $30-55 each in 2026 (about 18 years old); the 2024 grandfather-clause expiration modestly firmed nostalgic/collector interest but has not meaningfully moved price since these remain ordinary steel wedges, not rare material.
The Legends Rack
Where the modern Vokey empire's groove obsession went mainstream. Bob Vokey's grinds became golf's default answer to "what wedge should I get?" Who'll love it: better players; the origin story of the SM line below.
Who it suitsBetter players
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