That’s where the additional factors of your ability and where you play your golf come in. So how and why do they end up choosing wedges with such a small degree of loft difference. Looking at the wedge set up of the top 100 PGA Tour pros also it is interesting to note that sometimes you can find them carrying 4 and even 5 wedges in their golf bags with only a degree or two of difference between them. General rules of thumb, particularly when they come from master wedge technicians such as Vokey, are great but as anyone who has played golf for any length of time will tell you precision and, when it comes to wedge play sometimes a matter of only a few feet, can be the difference between a great shot and a lot of trouble. There are hundreds and hundreds of wedge options from 43° pitching wedges all the way up to 64° lob wedges so with all these loft options how does the average golfer go about choosing which loft of wedges they should carry?īob Vokey, the world’s foremost wedge designer, advises anywhere between 4 to 6 degrees ‘gap’ between the lofts of a golfer’s wedges which will equate to between 10 and 15 yards of distance for most men golfers, and 5 to 10 yards of distance gaps for women and junior golfers. On the days your wedge game is dialed in they can help cover up for all manner of shots that have come before and shave countless strokes off the numbers you end up writing on the scorecard.īut how do you choose the wedges which will give you the best chances of achieving this? From those key scoring distances of 100 yards in your wedges can make all the difference.

Average 56 degree wedge distance