Buy 1 Wedge or Buy a Set?

[Wardy]

Hi all.

I use some old Titleist 822 OS irons and the SW/PW lofts are:

SW - 55.5

PW - 46

I've got to that point in my game, where I need a Wedge to fill in between my SW/PW. As you can see, there's quite a substanial gap between them both and I've had a few shots recently that really a GW would be perfect, instead of overhitting a SW or grip-down PW.

My dilemma is whether to buy a single GW or buy a set of wedges. As the irons are quite old now, there's not any GW listed in the UK for these irons, but I'm concerned that buying a seperate brand GW may mess up the feel of my short game.

If it were you, would you invest in a set of wedges, so you don't have to adjust the feel/weight for each wedge or would you just buy a different branded GW?

[Hacker James]

from your own description you are merely trying to fill a gap, hence "gap wedge". I really do not see how a different "brand" is going to effect how you hit the rest of your clubs other than mentally. If it did, then buying a whole set would give you not one, but three wedges you were not comfortable with. I would go with the "one".

[Dave40]

You can still find the 822 gap wedge on the Internet. I have seen it on a couple of sites. Just google it and a few should show up.

[WUTiger]

I would go with one right now until your game stabilizes. Look for a 50* or a 52*. After you work with it and compare yardages to the three wedges, you might bend it to 51* to balance out distances.

If you're starting to play more and thinking about uprgrades, you should probably get fitted for irons first, and then blend in wedges that fit the distances.

[Tiny Toe]

If your handicap is a 24 I agree with the post above me to go find a 50 or 52, until you can score a bit better then you can go advance and buy a set of wedges.  I would suggest vokey desgined wedges.  Also pick up a 60 degree. Ever since I got mine the tough short shots in the rough right next to the flag have been a breeze!

[Wardy]

Thanks for the replies people. I've looked around for the GW of that set but no luck, only PW (in the uk). Handicaps actually at 19 now and have been shooting a few 14-16 rounds, but I agree still not low enough to warrant a set. I do own a 60degree vokey as per the post above, which is why I've started to relise the gap I've got. Time to look around, may go with another vokey 50-52.