Wedge Lofts

[TinCupTampa]

I have 52*, 56*, and 60* Scratch wedges. I can do the same things greenside with the 56* and 60* for the most part... the main reason I support having them both is for the bounce variation and the distance in full shots.

Whatever fits your game is the best for your bag.

[Titleist Man]

  elchene said:

I think 52, 58 is a great idea and I might go in that direction for my next set of wedges.

I really liked this because i was stuck between this and what i got and 54, 60. I figured if i wanted a bit more loft id have the guys at my club bend em a degree. Personally I really like them. Cant wait to get them and the Project X shafts(im getting them on my irons in a month or two). Well thanks again for the help

[mikelaw]

54-60 is great. Good thing with a low bounce 54 is you can bend them to 56 like me and still have options or you can bend them the other way for a gap wedge too.

I LOVE 54* wedges. They are the best.

[miller72]

dude, ok ive played a 58* vokey out of the sand for like 3 years now. I wouldnt go with like a super low bounce, because that would make it pretty hard to hit from anywhere other than the sand. The new vokey spin milled are great! thats what i game. They spin like no other!!!! I hope that you enjoy your purchase when you finally get your hands on some. It took me like 3 moths or so to get mine after I ordered them.

[Titleist Man]

  miller72 said:

dude, ok ive played a 58* vokey out of the sand for like 3 years now. I wouldnt go with like a super low bounce, because that would make it pretty hard to hit from anywhere other than the sand. The new vokey spin milled are great! thats what i game. They spin like no other!!!! I hope that you enjoy your purchase when you finally get your hands on some. It took me like 3 moths or so to get mine after I ordered them.

From what i have heard they confirm my suspisions of being the best wedges out there.

[AXE]

I am having the same problem, with my wedge set up.
Option #1: 58* LW
53* SW(bent from 54*)
48* PW(bent from 47*)
4 iron in the bag

Option#2: 59* LW(bent from 58*)
54* SW
50* GW
46* PW(bent from 47*)
4 iron out of the bag

60* wedge is not a real option for me (never hit it well).
Help with my 2009 bag setup

[tim31x]

i got with a 52, 56, and 60* set up

[DavidFehertysBike]

Ive been using a 54/8 and 58/8 on my vokeys for about a year now. I used 52/56 before. I find the 54/58 set up good for me because i use my 54 as basically a weak gap wedge and the 58 as simply a more lofted club, no more. I use the low bounce to keep the clubs as flexible as possible. I will decide on which one to use based on the trajectory on which i want the ball to fly.

[lumpuckeroo]

52 and 56

[denver_nuggs_15]

  AXE said:

I am having the same problem, with my wedge set up.

Is there a huge difference between 59* and 60*? If you can't hit a 60*, what makes you think you could hit a 59*?

[AXE]

Probably just mental, I've bought 2 60* wedges thinking i could hit them(could not), both times I had to bend them to 58*. Sorry it doesn't make a lot a sense but 60* wedges just don't work for me.

[pherg]

52, 56, 60.

I use the 60/4 from firm bunker lies and when I'm short-sided, I also use it for all my pitching and some chipping. I use the 56/8 for all other bunker shots.

Used to play with 54 and 60 but found I hit a three quarter 52 better than a full 54 so it better fills the gap between SW and PW.

It meant I had to lose the 3 iron but I also found a smooth 75% hybrid is easier to hit than full 3 iron anyway.

It also comes down to the courses you play, I play two and on one of them it's very rare you need to hit a 3 iron, everything's shorter or much longer, so the 4 wedges give me more options. I think that's why they're referred to as the scoring clubs. Hit it close, knock it in.

[ZachO]

If you get cleveland wedges with DSG you can use the 52 and open it as 54 and open a 58 so you can use it as a 60 (if that makes sence). Or if your going to stick with the vokeys get a 54 and a 60 so you can hit it up and sit straight away.

[Fourputt]

Well, I'm coming into this discussion late, but here's my take. I play 3 wedges besides my 47° PW. I played only 2 for a long time because I couldn't find a high wedge that I could play. Then last fall I had a chance to play free at a mountain course, and I knew that the fast greens would not like my wedge set at the time. I had some book money (tournament winnings) to spend in the pro shop, so I just played around with a couple of the wedges there a Vokey 60° and Callaway X Tour 58°. I didn't like the feel of the Vokey, but the Cally felt like it was part of me. I bought it on the spot and I've loved it ever since. I even backed it up with an X Tour 52° as well since adding the the 58 changed my gaps. The 52 has become my primary chipping club. So now I'm bagging:

AP2 PW 47° (more of a 10 iron)
X Tour 52° (11° bounce)
X Tour 58° (9° bounce)
Cleveland CG 11 SW 56° (14° bounce)

The CG11 is used solely for sand shots (can't live without that club), so my gaps are pretty even with the other 3 wedges.

[ScruffyScraper]

47° / 53° / 58° ----plus a dedicated sand iron

Four wedges in what I think of in my mind as just a two-wedge system.

47° was a nine iron for most of my linkster life. It'd different for younger players who grew up with modern strong-lofted irons.
With my matched irons, 5-PW is 4-9 to me. I played with the classic lofts for too long not to think in the older loft / number correlations.

The sand iron isn't really a part of the wedge loft progression; it's a shot-specific utility club.

So in my mind, it's a 53° pitch/chip wedge and a 58º pitch/lob wedge.

[1Greatgolfguy]

48pw - 140yds
52 - 125yds
56 - 100yds
60 - 75yds

[CJL]

It sounds like you may want to also consider the Vokey TVD wedges. These come in a 54* and 58* and are spin milled. They have a similar grind to the Cleveland DSG. I own two of them and had them both bent 1* strong for distance purposes. In any case, they took a bit of getting used to, but I love them. Well worth the money, although they were pretty expensive seen as they only made 600 (not sure of total or each). Just my two cents.