The Wedge Game

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  Feetup said:

PW and 56* SW here. Am considering a 50* as the PW is 47*

Why go with the unbalanced loft on the GW?

47 + 3 = 50 50 + 6 = 56 There's a 9° difference between your PW and SW. Why not get the GW more in the middle, like say, 51° or 52°? 47 + 4 = 51 51 + 5 = 56 or... 47 + 5 = 52 52 + 4 = 56

[LBlack14]

3 sometimes 4

[Shindig]

  Jeepthrills said:

This is the exact same set up I am considering as I already have the 45, 50 and 58.

Do you find you get the expected distance gaps? Since my (current) PW and GW differ by 6 degrees, I expected a 15 yard gap between them. Or is the 10-yard expected gap for 4 degrees only on irons? In any case, thanks; I think I'll be doing for 45-50-54-58 in a few months when I get my next set of irons.

[amking]

  Hacksaw said:

Today, the pitching wedge is a wedge in name only.The gap wedge, as we know, was born of neccessity and greed after the OEMs consented to the distance (phony) war in the 1990s.

agreed. The Evolution of Iron Lofts my current setup is 47/52/58. the 52 is great from the fairway for me and also a good greenside chipper/bump and run. i used to do 4 wedges (48/52/56/60), but with hybrids coming around to the mainstream with some good options available (and taking the spot of my old 2 iron/5 wood/4th wedge swap spot), i'm going to try that route for now and drop one wedge. only problem is i'm starting to view the pitching wedge in my titleist 735's as just a 10 iron... which would put me at only 2 wedges

[andre112]

right now 46/54/60
see how that works
might become 46/50/54/58 in the future.

[Shindig]

  amking said:

The Evolution of Iron Lofts

That article is quite interesting. I was wondering what the lofts used to be. Makes me feel a bit odd about my next set having a 45 degree PW. But it's better than a 43.5 degree PW, which one set I sampled had. It said I'd hit my PW 10 yards further with their set, and it seemed to be the case. Then I looked up the loft. I was wondering what my wedge configuration would be if my PW had that.

  amking said:

only problem is i'm starting to view the pitching wedge in my titleist 735's as just a 10 iron... which would put me at only 2 wedges

Yeah. Viewing the PW as a 10-iron doesn't hurt. I've seen some sets have 10 and 11 irons (PW, GW) and just label them as such.

[amking]

  Shindig said:

That article is quite interesting. I was wondering what the lofts used to be. Makes me feel a bit odd about my next set having a 45 degree PW. But it's better than a 43.5 degree PW, which one set I sampled had.

woah. what set had a 43.5 deg PW?

[Shindig]

  amking said:

woah. what set had a 43.5 deg PW?

Whoops, 43 even. The Cobra UFIs.

http://www.cobragolf.com/irons/specs.asp in case you think I'm kidding.

[andre112]

you'll probably need 5 "wedges"
43/48/52/56/60

[JonB27]

Right now I'm carrying 45/50/56 might tweek them slightly