Am I the only person who carries only 3 wedges?

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Rather than divert an existing thread, how many wedges do you need? The way I look at it, the more time a ball spends in the air, the more difficult you make it to get the distance right. I use a 46° wedge, bent to 44° from 100 yards in most of the time, hitting half & three quarter shots as necessary. I sometimes use the 50° in still conditions but I really wouldn't want to hit anything higher than that unless I had an obstacle to negotiate. I only ever use the 58°, which has 12° of bounce, from bunkers & over obstacles where I need the ball to stop quickly. Am I in the minority? I'd much rather have a 3 iron in the bag than a fourth wedge,.
 
47/53 and 56 at the moment though might be changing to 47/50/54/58 as I have found my 5w goes as far as my 3w so can take it out of the bag for a while (my over 200 yard distances are covered by a multitude of clubs, in fact 7 clubs) yet its my 140 and in that needs attention so Im trying to make my bag a little more "scoring end" biased.

edit: just been and got a couple of new wedges so now have 47 52 and 56 degree wedges (52 and 56 are Cleveland R588 rtx 2.0's)
 
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Three wedges? what do you need three for :p

I have two, a 48 and a 56. I can get any loft inbetween using these two. no need for anything else in my opinion.

Caveat is that I did have a 52 degree because 'a pro said it would be good to have one' it was used twice in 3 rounds, now in the garage.
 
I used to be in the 46/51/57 Camp and I still have the 51/57 wedges if I need to drop a club but I found I was asking the 57 to do too much (I'm not good enough more like) so I settled on a specific SW and LW
 
alexbrownmp said:
Three wedges? what do you need three for :p

I have two, a 48 and a 56. I can get any loft inbetween using these two. no need for anything else in my opinion.

Caveat is that I did have a 52 degree because 'a pro said it would be good to have one' it was used twice in 3 rounds, now in the garage.
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Initially, with this set, I was just playing with two but I was more comfortable playing full shots and found I had too much of a gap between PW and SW so got a GW in between.
 
Pitching (46), Gap (52) and Sand (56).

Gave up the 60 degree in favour of a 3 iron. I hit some nice shots but also some horrid ones with the 60. Overall I didn't find it much net benefit, and I suspect the same is true of most average players.

Although I played with a 28 handicapper at the weekend who carried a 70 degree, yes seventy, and used it to hit lob shots even when 2 yards off the green with a flat 20 yards to the flag. Managed better than you would imagine.
 
I use 45,51,56,60 but I am considering using less. I dont really think of my PW as a wedge though, its more of an iron.
 
Technically I have 4 but in reality its only 3 as the PW is 45° which more equates to a 10 iron - in my mind at least....
The PW is my 120/125 yard club, the 50 goes 105-110 but gets used for chipping and pitching as well, the 54 has a good yardage of 90-95, has a little more bounce so is the main bunker club and also chips and pitches and the 58 is normally a pitch/chip/sand club although a fullish swing goes about 75-80 and can be quite useful in certain circumstances.
The way I look at it is this..
From 175 - 230 yards from the green I am going to miss the green more often than hit it. And im not going to hit the green every time from 120 either.
I have more than enough tools (one) to use should I hit the green.
Why not have more tools available to use when I miss..?
Chips and pitches can be played with virtually any club, bunker shots generally need loft and bounce, as do deep rough shots. But light rough needs a different club again.
And as long as you know how far to pitch the ball and how far its going to run out with each club then you have a multitude of shots to use.
Some will say there is too much choice.
For me, all there is is the correct or incorrect choice.
Know what shot is produced from each club in different situations and you'll be able to make that choice.
 
48, 53, 60. I use the 60 for full shots from around 60/70 yds. Brilliant if you get it right. Punishing if you thin one though!
 
FairwayDodger said:
Initially, with this set, I was just playing with two but I was more comfortable playing full shots and found I had too much of a gap between PW and SW so got a GW in between.
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I rest my case about the ever decreasing lofts on short and mid irons! Pitching Wedges used to be 50 or 52 degrees. Now they are 44 degrees with all the numbered clubs de-lofted to suit!
 
delc said:
I rest my case about the ever decreasing lofts on short and mid irons! Pitching Wedges used to be 50 or 52 degrees. Now they are 44 degrees with all the numbered clubs de-lofted to suit!
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Who made a 52* pitching wedge?
My old clubs are some of the loftiest around and my PW is only 48*
 
3565 said:
3, 51* 55* 58* all different grinds.
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Grinds! I have to laugh when people tell me their grinds on their wedges (no offense to you 3565) its just your post reminded me of the technobabble many handicap golfers use and insist on having a 'special' grind on their wedges as they fat/thin/clunk their way around the course:rolleyes:

They havent a clue, and I will wager the majority of golfers are the same
 
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