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Usually when you´re a high handicapper, you don´t get much greens in regulation, so it´s easy to have 4 wedges to match several distances. Then when you improve to a lesser o low handicap, you need more help from the long clubs (woods and irons) to attack par fives in two, and less wedges. At that time, you´ve mastered the partial swing, so with PW-SW-LW it´s enough. At a time, I carried only a 4W and PW-GW-SW-LW, now I carry also a 13º 3W and PW-SW-LW, and I´ve my distances of 110-100-90-80-70-60-50-40 yards covered with full and half swings from 9 iron to LW

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I´ve got a Sonartec NP99 4 wood (17º) It has a smaller head than today´s woods, and it´s definitively easier to hit off the fairway, almost as easy as an hybrid. I´ve got also an Sonartec GS Tour 15º 3 wood, but I can play many rounds hitting only the 4W... the ballflight is perfect, not balloonig as a 5W nor so low as the 3W. It would make almost the same distance from the tee as a 3 wood if the GS Tour wasn´t such a cannon... Many people take out the 3W and 5W and add a 4W and a gap wedge. I take a different approach, because I´ve got my wedges well distance-spaced. So, take what it works four you, wether is a 4W or not

Yeah, our clubmaker is selling tons of them. They´re quite good wedges

Well, I play a Wishon 949MC 16.5º 4 Wood with a Precision Saber 65gr shaft, and it´s a superb club. It gained a place in the Golfdigest 2008 hotlist. I´ve also played Wishon 550 M/C irons, wonderful irons. Wishon has a very very solid stuff. The key is to find the right fitting for you, but don´t be afraid.

They´re good irons, I think it´s a good deal... You´ve got the specs here : http://www.titleist.com/historical_c...ails.asp?id=91

Try Proforce V2 Hybrid, I´ve got mine in 85 gr regular and it´s a good shaft It´s suit my swing, perhaps can suit yours but give it a try

Answering your question : - First, fill in your distances, not the lofts . In my case, with 3/4 and full swings makes the following setup : PW 46º - GW 50º - SW 54º - LW 58º. That gives me exact yardages between 110 and 50 yards - Second, choose the bounce : not too much for the gap (10º-8º), as much as you can in the sw as the conditions (fairway, sand) where you play (from 10º in firm conditions to standard 12º to 14º if heavy conditions) and a little for the lob (6º-8º)

I had a Ping G10, that was a good wood with the Proforce V2 shaft. Right now, as I do more or less the same distance with my 19º 3 hybrid as my 5 wood, and I use driver most of the tees at my home corse, I´m replacing my 3 & 5 woods by a Wishon 949 16.5º with a Precision Saber shaft. Before : - Driver - Callaway FTI Squarewood 3W 15º - Titleist 906F4 5W 18.5 º After : - Driver - Wishon 949 4W 16.5º - Wilson Dh6 19º I think I´ve got more playability options now...

I ditched the 5 wood and 3 iron in favor of a 19º hybrid, so I can carry 50º GW, 54º SW and 58º LW. Now I´m replacing the 3 wood for a new 4 wood, easier to hit, as I use mainly driver always from the tee....

I do like to have mi distances well covered inside 110 yards (100 meters), but also I do like to carry my 3-iron for the ocasional par-3 or piercing shots, and my 3 and 5 woods, so I do the following to carry 14 clubs : - Carry 3-9 irons and GW 50º, SW 56º, LW 60º - Ditch the 46º PW - With a complete and 3/4 finesse swings, I have the following distances 9 iron : 110 and 100 yards Not 46º PW 50º GW : 90 and 80 yards 56º SW : 70 and 60 yards 60º LW : 50 and 40 yars and all inside 40 yards is pitching (mostly with the 50º), chipping (56º) and special shots (60º) It´s important for me not only to have well-covered distance gaps, but also to have all the tools in the bag. In fact some times I don´t use once or twice a round the 3-iron or the 60º LW, but I don´t like not making a shot because I miss a club.

We do like to bet a brand new good ball (Prov1 or similar), signed by the loser It´s enough for the loser to get a bit mad...

Callaway Great Big Bertha II Callaway Great Big Bertha Titanium 454 Callaway FT3 Draw Cleveland HiBore XL (illegal, so changed) Cleveland HiBore XLS (actual) Cobra F Speed Ping G10 Titleist 905R Well... Not too much, 8 in 4 years, a 6 months/driver ratio

You´ve answered yourself... Why to change?

If somebody get better results whith a chipper, should use one. Or two drivers, or no driver, or hybrids or belly putters... and so on I agree it´s a rare club, and you can get the same result with another similar lofted iron, but at the end it´s about how many strokes, so...

I own a Callaway FTI Squarewood 15º and it´s a bit shallow faced, but it´s very very straight, especially on misshits

In order of preference to have : - Good swing with good equipment - Good swing with bad equipment - Bad swing with good equipment - Bad swing with bad equipment Easy

Really, to do the work is all about the knowledge and ability you have, and the proper tools to do it. If you have the ability, find the most useful tools for you Probably there isn´t two players in the word with the same equipment, so there is no fixed rules for everyone. You can carry 2 drivers, 5 wedges, 2 putters, no driver... At this moment I carry a 12 hcp and 17 clubs that I hit well (and yes, I´ve got my 3x4 Pelz distances marked in the wedge shafts) and choose 14 depending on the course. Try, try, and choose what works for you. It´s always the same with threads like "what shaft do I choose" or "how many wedges do I carry" or "5W or 2 iron", etc, etc.....

- I do know that Lorena Ochoa it´s a woman, btw. And that is not related to her short game skills - If can agree you in not to compare our game with the pros, so then what Tiger Woods carries doesn´t matter (even if is it a 60º) - If you take notice, I carry three wedges : 50º GW, 54º SW, 58º LW. I do know this setup is what suit me the best - You can go through the Pelz system carrying 4 wedges or use Stan Utley´s theory in use-your-most-versatile-58º-for-all, or experimenting your own, or make what you want, but... - ... if someboy ask for help because has some problems deciding, I feel comfortable giving him my opinion. I don´t deny yours and I don´t agree I´m confusing people, only giving some help, what I think is what was asked

A 56º it´s a decent tool to have. You only need to master it and don´t need to carry a 60º I´ll give you two good examples : below his 50º gap wedge, Lorena Ochoa only uses a 56º... And Tom Walson does the same, too Don´t you think they are capable to make all the shots they need, including stopping the ball on a dime, spin it back or make pitch-and-runs?

The same occurred to me, due to the shafts. Apparently, good shots with my 50º went the same distance as with mi 46º PW. It´s more a thing of distances than degrees, so you can better focus in covering the distances. It´s true that it made sense to begin filling the gap with wedges, but it isn´t always as easy...

First at all, I´m not a low handi, just a 12 I don´t mind playing with high handicappers if the know how to behave on the golf course : walk fast, watch their ball, take care of the rules, etc Slow play is what surpassess me...

It´s not all about the bounce, or short game shots you can shape, it´s about covering the distance on well-controlled finesse wedge shots I´ve got the following setup : PW 46º : 90 meters, 80 half swing SW 54º : 70 meters, 60 half swing LW 58º : 50 meters, 40 half swing So I have 10 meters (10.1 yards) between clubs. If I go with another setup, I have gaps. Of course this fits me , and pros can hit 120 yards with his LW and go with PW 50º-SW 56º-LW 60º.... I learned this in the hard way and after in Stan Utley´s short game book (remember he was a true PGA tour player with several wins, not merely a theorical guru) He uses 47º-53º-58º, using his 58º for virtually each short game shot, and explain how Ernie Els go 48º-55º-60º because being so tall and strong. So, first fill your distance gaps, then choose a main club to master your short game, and finally add the properly bounce keeping in mind the courses you play

Errr.... not always Last round I had a nightmare pin tucked 5 feet in front of the green behind a bunker that was behind a river!!! And behind all the green.... I had to play a 90 yards risky flop to stay near the pin, and finally made birdie, but it would be easier to shot the center of the green and let it spun back to the pin

I´m doing exactly this... Ping G10 4 wood, look at my signature