Degrees on Golf Wedges

Video Transcript

"The next thing I want to talk about, with your set of clubs, is your wedges. There are millions of wedges out there on the market and all of them have different degrees and different bounce. These two wedges I have right here, for instance, we have a fifty-eight degree wedge and a fifty-two degree wedge. If you take a look at your normal pitching wedge, the average pitching wedge is going to be about forty-eight degrees of loft. The reason why you normally see a sand wedge, that's fifty-six degrees of loft, well, what I found was, I had a gap between my pitching wedge and my sandwich. I went from a forty-eight degree pitching wedge to a fifty-six degree sand wedge, I'd be stuck at a hundred yards in no man's land. I strongly recommend, and it depends on your game and how far you hit these wedges, but what I've done is gone from a pitching wedge to a gap wedge and, basically, that gap wedge fits the gap between a pitching wedge and sand wedge. So, I went to a fifty-two degrees and then, instead of having a long wedge at sixty-two degrees, I have a fifty-eight degree and I feel like this set up can really help you fill in those gaps in your wedge game. When it comes down to wedge game, the closer you get to the green, the more important yardage's are because you want to be able to stop that ball as close to the hole as possible, whereas, with those longer irons, you're trying to get accuracy. You don't want to hit too far right or too far left. That's just one thing you want to keep an eye on, when you look for wedges."