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Surtees · 05-07-2008, 01:09 AM

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Originally Posted by broken tee

DENNIS: GOOD FOR YOU,Now straighten me out my pitching wedge is 45 dgr. sand wedge 55dgr so to complete the arsenal I'm going 52 and 58.
my golf buddies feel 60 is too hard to hit. what do you think. Every time I think I know what I want more infomation gets me thinking again. Sometimes thinking is dangerous when swinging.

Bob

I think sometime it maybe dangerous when you think in general Bob

. I've also heard that the 60 can be a bit hard to hit I was thinking of getting a 54 or 56 dgr one.

**DennisM** · 05-07-2008, 08:26 AM

I agree about the lob wedges in that they were difficult to judge distance for me. I didn't practice enough to learn, but what bothered me was that I couldn't make a full swing and ever get a reasonable idea of how far I could hit the silly things. With my most recent 58 degree Callaway wedge, I could get between 50-70 yards with no appreciable feel for why I had hit it so poorly or so much better that it fell short or flew over my target. In short, I have tried both 60 degree and then 58 degree wedges, thinking the latter might let me put the effort into a swing that I THINK should be enough, only to fail miserably most of the time.

The sand wedge I have used for a few years now was 54 degrees, so my hope is that the 56 degree wedge will serve double duty in the sand and as somewhat of a lob wedge in a few situations every round where I wish I had one. For some reason, I have always been able to hit an open faced cut shot pretty well. A combination of that with the 56 degrees ought to equal something close to lob wedge characteristics, as long as I don't try to hit the ball a long way.

So, my wedge lineup is now a 46 degree PW, a 50 degree Gap and a 56 degree SW. I'm not concerned about the 6 degree difference between the gap and sand wedges.

broken tee · 05-07-2008, 03:47 PM

[quote=Surtees;22945]I think sometime it maybe dangerous when you think in general Bob

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its the squirrel in the wheel,it just slows down too often

Surtees · 05-07-2008, 11:45 PM

Back on topic again I was just surfing around the web and found a 64 dgr wedge and was wondering if anyone here used one? if so what type of range does it have?

TGOH · 05-08-2008, 06:53 PM

I've used a 64. One of my golf coaches has one that he rotates in and out of his bag. I'm not a big hitter, so I can only get about 40 yards from it. However, it makes opening up the face for flop shots, and sitting the ball down on a dime quite a bit easier than with a 56.

**DennisM** · 05-08-2008, 07:05 PM

One of the guys I play with has a 64 degree wedge. He has a really easy, smooth swing and never tries to hit it over about 30 yards, so he only uses it around the green, with a full swing, with his intention being only to get ON the green. I think that club is crazy, but for him it works.

I just finished regripping my new irons and wedges. I've used Golf Pride Tour Wrap Midsize grips since forever and every time I put on a new set, I feel so good, like I've just gotten a new toy. They are just about dry and when they are, I'm taking the 56 degree Vokey over to the school field so I can get a feel for it.

**DennisM** · 05-14-2008, 09:01 PM

The Vokey Tour models were super. I had 2 sand shots that I didn't hit particularly well, but using the 56 degree wedge around the green got me 5 up & downs with only 1 mess. The gap wedge worked pretty well, certainly felt good, but I need to learn how long I can hit it.

Surtees · 05-14-2008, 09:23 PM

sounds like a nice buy and that you'll be spending sometime do at the range to learn your distances with it.

**DennisM** · 05-14-2008, 09:44 PM

Yeah, I'm happy with the wedges. I think what I may do with the gap wedge is not bang it on the range, but go to the course late in the afternoon and use the GPS in the cart to tell me when I'm a certain distance away, then see if I can figure out how far I hit it. I also have a school field two houses away, so I could also measure my way across a piece of the field and see what it takes. I'd just rather hit my shag bag, which has more consistent balls in it, than some cheap range balls.