| Also, there are different uses for each wedge. For instance, a gap wedge is for lower running chip shots, a sand wedge is for escaping from the sand (because of how much bounce it has), and a lob wedge is good for tricky situations like pitching and chipping to a hole that is cut close to the edge, landing a ball softly, or hacking out of thick rough.
The difference in wedges isn't about ball flight, it's about ball spin. One wedge can look the same as another and perform completely differently. You have to get right down to microscopic levels and see how the grooves are manufactured. Titleist Vokey wedges and TaylorMade RAC wedges have machine milled grooves that have really amazing staying power, which hold up over time. They also spin the living crap out of the ball because they have really high friction faces Friction is what generates spin in a wedge. And spin is exactly what you want in a wedge.
A knockoff wedge is cheaply made and is going to have a bunch of imperfections in the grooves, which causes erratic spin. Most of these cheaply made wedges also have no friction at all on the face. If you can run your finger across the face of the club without it feeling a little rough, it isn't going to get a lot of spin on the ball.
To really accel at the short game, you need good wedges that can channel away tough grass and get some good spin on the ball. Otherwise you are just tossing bullets at the green that will roll off the other side.
DO NOT go cheap on wedges.
__________________ Cody Wheeler
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