Yuka Saso's 5 Wedge Setup, What Long Club Would You Remove With This Setup?

[onthehunt526]

Jerry Foltz who followed her for 2 days, and said she had 5 wedges in the bag, only 3 headcovers at the Open.

@azgreg both of your sources only add up to 13 clubs. 

1) Driver

2) 3-wood

3) 4-hybrid

4-8) 5,6,7,8,9 iron

9-12) 46, 52, 56, 60

13) Putter

Vokey doesn’t make a 64 in the SM8 model. So that’s out as the 14th club. 

Edited July 12, 2021 by onthehunt526

[tomvk77]

On 7/7/2021 at 5:01 PM, ncates00 said:

In my opinion, that's way too many high lofted clubs, dude. Depending on the loft of your 3w and 7w, you're going to have a huge gap between 3w and 7w or 7w and 5i.

On the flip side, if you're playing a relatively short course (or a further forward tee box) where you're hitting mostly driver-wedge all day, then I suppose this setup makes sense.

I suppose your reasoning is you want to avoid partial wedge shots. For me, I'd rather have more options at the long end of the bag than more wedges. It's far easier to finesse wedges to hit those partial distances while keeping spin on the ball to hold a green. I have yet to find a shot that I cannot do with my pw (48*), sw (54*), or lw (60*) to make me want to get another wedge. I simply do not see any upside to having more wedges than this. It's much harder to finesse long clubs to hit partial distances because if you finesse them, they tend to come out lower and with less spin--good luck holding the green. That's exactly why I have more longer clubs; I want more full shots in so as to keep my height and spin up on those long approaches. Or alternatively, if I'm playing a course with a lot of trouble, a new course I'm not familiar with, or if I just want to hit it "where I can see it" and keep the ball low off the tee, I'll put in my driving iron (Titleist u510 16*) instead of my 5w. But again, as I stated above, if you're on a driver-wedge course, then this may not matter to you.

I kinda like the extra wedge, from the fairway I don't have trouble to get the right distance for my shorter  shots, and could use basically a pw or sw, but if I need to get there from the rough I struggle with those 3/4 shots and I tend to close the clubface and loose the ball to the left a lot. For me my setup is the best possible. I don't have any gaps in there. 

[ChetlovesMer]

On 7/11/2021 at 10:10 PM, onthehunt526 said:

Vokey doesn’t make a 64 in the SM8 model. So that’s out as the 14th club. 

I think there may be a limited edition model in 64 degrees? Possibly called the Jimmy Walker or something like that?