Interesting. I bought the tour wedge (gorge) in a 58 degree with a wide sole, mainly for the bunkers but I have no issues opening it up for pitching. I don't have any problem with the wide sole
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Interesting. I bought the tour wedge (gorge) in a 58 degree with a wide sole, mainly for the bunkers but I have no issues opening it up for pitching. I don't have any problem with the wide sole
MarkE
Challenge Tour Pro
PW and SW, dont need anything else- learn to manufacture shots, it's far more fun
There will be many a long in a minute saying you need 4 wedges and a 60* for that 'occasional' shot. Learn with what you have first, you can add later when your a wedge master
Never really understood this viewpoint. You would'nt leave a 7 iron out and try to manufacture shots with your 6. So why with wedges?
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SVB
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As per sig below. Seems to work fine for me.
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Never really understood this viewpoint. You would'nt leave a 7 iron out and try to manufacture shots with your 6. So why with wedges?
so you hit your 7 iron (and all other irons) an exact distance everytime....thought not.
Mind if I ask your handicap?
garyinderry
Ryder Cup Winner
wouldn't leave home without a lob wedge !
One Planer
Global Moderator
Fixed for you Gary :thup:
palindromicbob
Tour Winner
Might not be any problems with the wide sole of a 58* Tour Wedge (Gorge) but is very different to the stock G25 SW sole is it not. IIRC was the large heads of the G25 short irons not one of the reasons you switched to i25's? I know I couldn't be confident to open up a stock GI sand wedge and don't think they are really aimed to provide the flexibility offered by a specific wedge such as the Ping Tour wedges.
Apples and oranges IMHO.
More the top line than anything and tbh I've not purchased a SW as part of any set of clubs for as many years as I remember as most in my opinion are poor and I'd rather get a specialised SW that suits my eye better. 4-PW and then add the wedges I want
Bunker-Face
Newbie
I carry 3 wedges : a PW, another PW and an SW. When I got a new set of irons I wanted to keep the old PW as I used it for about 90% of shots under 100 yards but I use the new one for full shots. It may sound a bit silly but I wasn't using a fourteenth club anyway so it hasn't limited my options elsewhere.
I have no idea what degree any of the three are.
I have no idea what degree any of the three are.
garyinderry
Ryder Cup Winner
Kaizer_Soze
Head Pro
The PW from my set is 44*, hence why I have separate 48, 52 and 56 wedges. The course I play at is not the longest at 6210 from the white tee or 5859 from yellow hence a lot of shots from 100 yards in so the need for the the shorter clubs rather than a 5 wood or 1 iron. I also have a 60" wedge but rarely take it out with me.
MarkE
Challenge Tour Pro
18 handicap. Like everybody on here, i'm massively inconsistent so it makes it easier to have clubs that theoretically fill all the gaps. So, would you leave your 7 iron out of the bag to manufacture shots with your 6, or not? I suspect you would'nt, so why do it with your wedges?
I reckoned you were above 13 so I was almost right.
To answer your repeated question I used to leave out the 2 5 and 7 leaving me 3 4 6 8 9 pw and sw and got myself down to 2.7 with that, so I suppose I had to manufacture shots, to me it was just playing golf.
I reckon you are new-ish to golf as well? as PW SW was the norm in the past, it was only after certain manufacturers started strenghthening their PW's, some as low as 45* that 'gap' wedges started to come in to fill the ..erm...gap. Manufacturers creating their own market.
MadAdey
Money List Winner
So how many clubs are in your bag? You do not manafactrue shots with your wedges? So you have a club that fills every gap from 10 yards all the way to your 9i. Every round you have to manafacture shots with wedges, so saying why not leave your 7i out is ridiculous as you have a 6i and 8i in your bag if the 7i is the wrong club. If you are 40 yards from the green what do you do.....panic as none of your clubs go exactly 40 yards, no you manafacture a shot don't you?
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Vmixture
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Vokey SM4 52.8 56.11 and 60.04
Love them! :thup:
Love them! :thup:
I was going to say good post but I see the mods edited your words so not sure what you said or they said
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I have a 47* PW, 54* GW & 58* LW
Perhaps the gap between the PW & GW is a little large but I can easily manage to hit anything in between those gaps easily enough.
You can't have a club for every eventuality, but a bit of practice (preferably competitive) & imagination can give you a shot for every eventuality.
Perhaps the gap between the PW & GW is a little large but I can easily manage to hit anything in between those gaps easily enough.
You can't have a club for every eventuality, but a bit of practice (preferably competitive) & imagination can give you a shot for every eventuality.
Spear-Chucker
Tour Rookie
This is a really good approach. Minimise gaps in the set where possible (6°+ gaps are risky) but above all else use imagination and practice - we're not all quite Seve but I think everyone can learn a few stock shots in relatively short timeframe.
pendodave
Tour Rookie
Wedge gapping is the new buttpoint....
Why the vitriol? Some people are good at half shots, some aren' t.
I can't hit any of my clubs to within a couple of yards every time, because I'm not a pro. But I still like the idea of roughly similar distance gaps down from 170 to 70 yds with a 'normal' swing. Does that make me a bad person???
Why the vitriol? Some people are good at half shots, some aren' t.
I can't hit any of my clubs to within a couple of yards every time, because I'm not a pro. But I still like the idea of roughly similar distance gaps down from 170 to 70 yds with a 'normal' swing. Does that make me a bad person???
MarkE
Challenge Tour Pro
God, everyone gets so tetchy on here if someone has a different view. Is it because you are low handicappers so look down with distain on anyone not at your level? To answer your question, funnily enough I have 14 clubs and obviously have to 'manufacture' shots. My point was merely, why leave bigger gaps than is absolutely necessary? Sorry for having an opinion.
