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Wedges are the irons in your bag that follow after your nine iron. The degree of loft of these clubs are higher and determine the distance you make with your full swing.
As a beginner you don’t have so much to do with these differences. You are probably more than happy if you hit your ball straight and that it ends up in the direction that you want it to go.
But if you’re getting to the point that you learn your distances and you become more and more consistent, you probably start to learn that you ‘are too long’ with your pitching wedge and to short with your sand wedge. You know how to play those two clubs, because these clubs were in your beginner set, so you made your first chip shots and pitches with these irons.[clear]
Time for the next step….
So what’s the story of the wedges:
The pitching wedge is designed to be able to get under a ball at impact and reach a distance of about 110 to 120 meters. The ball goes high up in the air and has little roll when landing on the green. A pitching wedge has next to letters PW on the club head the amount of degrees of the loft. Depending on manufactures the range of loft for a PW is between 44° and 49° loft.
The Sand wedge (SW) has on average a loft of 54° and 58°. As the name implies, to be used in the sandy bunkers. But you also can use your sand wedge on the fairway or to hit a ball out of the rough. On average an amateur player hits about a 70 to a 90 meters with a full swing. The ball goes straight up in the air and will land and hardly roll (and leave a deep pitch mark behind).
A Gap wedge is the club that closes the gap between the two distances mentioned above. In a situation where the pitching wedge results in a shot to long and the SW to short, you can use your gap wedge. It fills the gap. Normally a club with a 50 to 54° loft.
The rule of thumb is that a player should have four degrees of difference between each wedges. E.g. a golfer with a pitching wedge lofted at 46° should have a gap wedge of 50° , a sand wedge of 54° and a lob wedge of no less than 58°.
So to finish up the wedges, the club with the most loft is the Lob wedge. Experience golfers will take a lob wedge when they are close to the green and try to hit a clean shot so that the ball will fly high into the air and land on the green with loads of spin and rolls back to the hole. The degrees of loft varies between 58° and 65°. The leading edge of this club is thin and has also little bounce. With a full swing distances of 50 to 60 meters are made. The lob wedge is the latest addition to the set of clubs and is also named after the amount of loft; e.g. a 60-degree wedge.
Wedges are also called ‘the scoring clubs’. The focus is on accuracy. You try to get the ball in, or at least as close as possible to the hole and take away an extra putting attempt.
Have a look what a professional like Jordan Spieth has in his bag;
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