Bag set up

[galvin88]

Hi guys, im looking for some advice on the best bag set up with all the clubs i have.
I cant decide what to take out and what wedges to keep.
So all the clubs i currently have are
Driver
3 wood
3 hybrid
5 hybrid
4- pw (44 degree pw)
52, 56, 58 and 60 sldegree wedges
Now i know i will need to get a 48 or 50 degree for the gap between pw and 52 degree.
I just dont know what to keep or remove.

Thanks

 

[Neilds]

Get rid of the 60 degree for starters.
Then add a putter

 

[VVega]

Too many wedges in the current setup. Depends on your yardages and preferences, but there is no need to have 56/58/60 imo.

Wedges are less about gapping and more about purpose - sand, rough, hard v soft fairways etc.

 

[Burnsey]

You would be better going to a Trackman range, or a course/field with a rangefinder/measuring device and working out what distance each goes.

Take someone with you, so you're not following the ball and concentrating on your swing. Then ditch any duplicates.

You have 4 and 5 iron, plus a 3 and 5 hybrid, so there has to be some overlap there, then 4 wedges, with only 4 degrees across three, so there's too many there.

No one knows how you play with each, so an impossible question to answer, but you seem to understand the gap you have PW to first wedge.

Once you have a more informed bag, you can tweak from then.

 

[Neilds]

You would be better going to a Trackman range, or a course/field with a rangefinder/measuring device and working out what distance each goes.

Take someone with you, so you're not following the ball and concentrating on your swing. Then ditch any duplicates.

You have 4 and 5 iron, plus a 3 and 5 hybrid, so there has to be some overlap there, then 4 wedges, with only 4 degrees across three, so there's too many there.

No one knows how you play with each, so an impossible question to answer, but you seem to understand the gap you have PW to first wedge.

Once you have a more informed bag, you can tweak from then.

Agree totally with your logic. Too many people come on here asking for advice, stating what clubs they have. No information about how far they hit each one. If they started typing the question and put it what distances they hit each club, it would be so obvious where the gaps or overlaps were and what distances they needed to cover or remove.

 

[Orikoru]

Hi guys, im looking for some advice on the best bag set up with all the clubs i have.
I cant decide what to take out and what wedges to keep.
So all the clubs i currently have are
Driver
3 wood
3 hybrid
5 hybrid
4- pw (44 degree pw)
52, 56, 58 and 60 sldegree wedges
Now i know i will need to get a 48 or 50 degree for the gap between pw and 52 degree.
I just dont know what to keep or remove.

Thanks

Well, nobody needs a 56, 58 and 60, they're too close together. You either take the 58 out, or take the 56 and 60 out and keep the 58, I would say. So if you're adding another gap wedge in there, then you're either going 44-48-52-58, or 44-50-56-60. It's entirely your call on that. But nobody is playing with 2° gaps between their wedges. Personally I have a 46-50-54-60 set-up.

At the longer end, I'm not sure what purpose the 5 hybrid is serving if you have a 4 and 5 iron in the bag as well. Surely one of them can come out? There must be some similarity in distance there. As stated above - provided you know how far you hit each one, it's like the 4 or the 5 goes the same distance as the 5 hybrid I would say, so one of them can come out.

Make your decisions on those two things and that should leave you with 14 (assuming you do actually have a putter ).

 

[galvin88]

Well, nobody needs a 56, 58 and 60, they're too close together. You either take the 58 out, or take the 56 and 60 out and keep the 58, I would say. So if you're adding another gap wedge in there, then you're either going 44-48-52-58, or 44-50-56-60. It's entirely your call on that. But nobody is playing with 2° gaps between their wedges. Personally I have a 46-50-54-60 set-up.

At the longer end, I'm not sure what purpose the 5 hybrid is serving if you have a 4 and 5 iron in the bag as well. Surely one of them can come out? There must be some similarity in distance there. As stated above - provided you know how far you hit each one, it's like the 4 or the 5 goes the same distance as the 5 hybrid I would say, so one of them can come out.

Make your decisions on those two things and that should leave you with 14 (assuming you do actually have a putter ).

Thanks for that mate, i have the 4 iron in the bag because i have just bought the titleist t150's and it come with them, so thought id put it in to try it out.
The 5 hybrid is the cobra ds adapt that i won, and tbh its one of my favourite clubs in the bag, so i was thinking of removing the 5 iron for it.
The wedges, i have so many because i had a 52 and 58, then i won a 3k ping g430 bundle, that come with ping s159 wedges that are the 56 and 60.
But because i have all them wedges in, i got to the point i cant decide on what to remove

 

[galvin88]

Get rid of the 60 degree for starters.
Then add a putter

putter is in there just thougjt there was no point in adding that in

 

[galvin88]

Too many wedges in the current setup. Depends on your yardages and preferences, but there is no need to have 56/58/60 imo.

Wedges are less about gapping and more about purpose - sand, rough, hard v soft fairways etc.

Thanks, i understand there is too many wedges , when i get a 48, i might go 52, 56

 

[galvin88]

You would be better going to a Trackman range, or a course/field with a rangefinder/measuring device and working out what distance each goes.

Take someone with you, so you're not following the ball and concentrating on your swing. Then ditch any duplicates.

You have 4 and 5 iron, plus a 3 and 5 hybrid, so there has to be some overlap there, then 4 wedges, with only 4 degrees across three, so there's too many there.

No one knows how you play with each, so an impossible question to answer, but you seem to understand the gap you have PW to first wedge.

Once you have a more informed bag, you can tweak from then.

Thank for this mate, il try this out, didnt think about it tbh, dad has a sim so i will go though my clubs and go from there. I won a ping g430 bubdle that come with the 3 hybrid, then i won the 5 hybrid thats why i have both, and i have just sold my ping g430 irons and got the titleist t150's, and the 4 iron come with them.

This is kind of why i am struggling to know what to keep in the bag.

 

[Lucifer MorningStar]

Unless my maths is wrong even without the putter you have more than the allowed 14 clubs in your bag.

First things first work out how far you hit each club and to see what’s really
Needed.

But based on that set up !

I’d ditch the 5hybrid! As you have 4 & 5 irons in the bag. I’d then buy a 48° wedge and carry a wedge set of 48,52 & 56°. And bin off the rest.

So many people don’t need a 60° as they don’t get enough distance or use for it around the greens

 

[kp17]

Bag set up is so dependent on your own game and level you’re at, what woods/hybrids you hit best, what’s suited best to your course, probably solve the wedge gapping that way etc.

 

[Orikoru]

Thank for this mate, il try this out, didnt think about it tbh, dad has a sim so i will go though my clubs and go from there. I won a ping g430 bubdle that come with the 3 hybrid, then i won the 5 hybrid thats why i have both, and i have just sold my ping g430 irons and got the titleist t150's, and the 4 iron come with them.

This is kind of why i am struggling to know what to keep in the bag.

How do you keep winning a bunch of different clubs??

 

[galvin88]

How do you keep winning a bunch of different clubs??

Haha on a golf raffle site, and to be fair i have only won twice, its just one was a bundle that included a bag and 12 clubs in total, then i won the 5 hybrid

 

[Slab]

Depending on what level you play at you might consider 6 degree gapping for wedges. An awful lot of club golfers would be fine with gapping at an extra 2 degrees at that end
So if your PW is 44 than have your 52 bent to 50 & keep the 56, drop the 60. Now you’ve 3 wedges instead of 5

 

[Voyager EMH]

The T150 irons I find slightly odd...



The Mizuno Pro 223 also starts with a 22° 4-iron, but the progression goes 22, 25, 28, 32, 36, 41, 46PW. Gaps of 2x3°, 2x4° and 2x5°.
Continuing a 5° gap would give two more wedges of 51 and 56.
Or increase the gapping to 6° and have 52 and 58. This is more likely to be my choice - Gaps of 2x3°, 2x4°, 2x5° and 2x6°

But with a 44°PW I would have a problem. I would have to jump to a 6° gap to 50°W and then a 6° or more gap to my most lofted club whatever I should choose that to be.
I would find this to be a slightly unsatisfactory compromise.

But you are not me - and you will have to sort this out for yourself.

 

[Burnsey]

The T150 irons I find slightly odd...

View attachment 59586

The Mizuno Pro 223 also starts with a 22° 4-iron, but the progression goes 22, 25, 28, 32, 36, 41, 46PW. Gaps of 2x3°, 2x4° and 2x5°.
Continuing a 5° gap would give two more wedges of 51 and 56.
Or increase the gapping to 6° and have 52 and 58. This is more likely to be my choice - Gaps of 2x3°, 2x4°, 2x5° and 2x6°

But with a 44°PW I would have a problem. I would have to jump to a 6° gap to 50°W and then a 6° or more gap to my most lofted club whatever I should choose that to be.
I would find this to be a slightly unsatisfactory compromise.

But you are not me - and you will have to sort this out for yourself.

Add the gap wedge at 48 degrees and it works.

I go 54/60, because I like a 60, but 52/54/58 I've seen too.

That said, lofts can be tweaked - the T series has a range of standard lofts and designed to blend with others.

There's no compromise, just options for every player.

 

[Neilds]

The T150 irons I find slightly odd...

View attachment 59586

The Mizuno Pro 223 also starts with a 22° 4-iron, but the progression goes 22, 25, 28, 32, 36, 41, 46PW. Gaps of 2x3°, 2x4° and 2x5°.
Continuing a 5° gap would give two more wedges of 51 and 56.
Or increase the gapping to 6° and have 52 and 58. This is more likely to be my choice - Gaps of 2x3°, 2x4°, 2x5° and 2x6°

But with a 44°PW I would have a problem. I would have to jump to a 6° gap to 50°W and then a 6° or more gap to my most lofted club whatever I should choose that to be.
I would find this to be a slightly unsatisfactory compromise.

But you are not me - and you will have to sort this out for yourself.

Loft difference is secondary to distance difference - they don't always correlate. Distance is what the OP should be considering.

 

[rulie]

As someone suggested above, "gapping" should be done on distance, not degrees of loft. It's field work, not office work!

 

[Burnsey]

As someone suggested above, "gapping" should be done on distance, not degrees of loft. It's field work, not office work!

I agree and with The T series, there really is no need to adjust lofts, if willing to utilise the various model options.

Still, Titleist print lofts on their PW and GW, so my OCD would not cope with a 48 degree stamped club set at 50