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Getting your wedge makeup right takes a little effort but can save you a ton of strokes BY E MICHAEL JOHNSON All About Wedges
you’re likely hitting your 5-wood as far as your 3-wood and your 5-iron as far as your 4-iron, so those clubs are ripe to drop and replace with a wedge or two. We acknowledge that deciding on wedges is one of the toughest scenarios in the equipment world as there is so much to consider. Loft gapping, bounce angles, sole grinds, even shaft prefer- ences are not immediately intuitive. Turf conditions at your course might impact the ideal wedges for you, too. Perhaps the most obvious question is: How many wedges? Ideally you should have four, including your pitch-
In the pro game, the wedges a player carries and the specs of those clubs is a con-
stant discussion with equipment reps and clubfitters – and it can change week to week depending on the course. You don’t need that level of scrutiny, but having, say, only a pitching wedge and sand wedge in your bag isn’t enough. Let’s start with why. Safe to say, you’re missing plenty of greens. Also, you hate less-than-full swings, and car- rying clubs you can swing from various distances inside 100 metres helps. Plus,
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