Anyone playing a 6 degree gap between pitching wedge and gap wedge?

[Hook DeLoft]

I’ve noticed that some strong lofted sets come with a 6 degree gap between wedges. Obviously, if this caused problems, you could adjust the lofts. But I was wondering if folks who have a set up like this find the gap to be too large. I have seen some write that the designers know what they’re doing and the gapping should be just fine, but the cynic in me suspects the big gap is a compromise. 

[RickyBobby_PR]

I have played that gap and sometimes still do when I put the TW wedges in the bag. I have a 50* gw and the tw sw is 56.

It doesnt bother me because I am comfortable playing partial shots with gw and pw. 

[MNUte]

1 hour ago, RickyBobby_PR said:

I have played that gap and sometimes still do when I put the TW wedges in the bag. I have a 50* gw and the tw sw is 56.

It doesnt bother me because I am comfortable playing partial shots with gw and pw. 

Same for me. I have my 44, 48, 52 and 58 degree wedges. But I'm generally more comfortable hitting partial shots with my 48 and 58 than I am hitting full or partial shots with my 52. So in essence, my bag is 44, 48 and 58 except for pretty specific situations. 

[Pinhi1]

My wedges are 44,48,54,58.  So the biggest gap is between my GW and SW.  I prefer to take some off my GW than trying to nuke my SW.  But i really dont see a huge gap between them.

[Berg Ryman]

This is why it's good to get a gapping analysis if at all possible. I go from a set wedge at 43* and then at Club Champion during the wedge fit we worked on spacing those gaps perfectly to cover a ton of shot types and distance and ended up with the 48/53/58 set I'm running with for the future. 5 degrees for me is where it is at.

[Puttingmatt]

I have been playing 6* gapping in my wedges for a few years, 

Pw 46*, gw 52* ,and sw 58*

Between partial swings and full swings, meets all my needs, very well

[Adamman84]

I have a 5 degree difference between my pitching wedge (45 degrees) and my gap wedge (50 degrees) and feel like its pretty solid gaping. I carry 50, 54 and 58 degree wedges 

[Kenny B]

I am currently not playing a GW.  I have an 8º difference between my MacGregor PW, which I strengthened from 48º to 46º and my SW which is 54º.  LW is 60º.

[BostonSal]

With a 42° 9-iron, I don’t use the set matching 46° PW.

I go with 6° gaps throughout the short end with the 9-iron and a 48-54-60°  wedge complement.

No problem for me, but a stronger-lofted 9-iron might have created  a problem in configuring the set.

 

 

[jroot327]

my z585 PW and GW are 44 and 50 I think. Then I play a 56* and 60*. It doesn't cause me issues, but maybe I'm just used to it?

[Londo]

On 12/22/2021 at 9:32 PM, jroot327 said:

my z585 PW and GW are 44 and 50 I think. Then I play a 56* and 60*. It doesn't cause me issues, but maybe I'm just used to it?

I have the same irons and gapping, the there is ~16yd distance gap between PW and GW. Over the past season there were only 2 real instances where I found myself directly between clubs and had to make a tougher decision. 

[pakman92]

45, 50, 54, 58 is what I play.  With max partial shot shots in the mix, this set me up with 8 known carry distances between 75 - 125.  

full 45, full 50, partial 45, full 54, partial 50, full 58, partial 54, partial 58

For me max partial shot is a full turn shot without active release of the hands.   Below 75, I'm hitting same type shots with smaller turns giving additional distances.  I limit those to just 54 and 58 which are specialty wedges, CBX2.

[Joefreddy]

I heard Lee Trevino say relatively late in his career when asked how many wedges he normally carried in his bag, (one and when I think I can hit that pretty well I might try a second one)

Just another perspective from a player who had a decent short game. 

[Mikedb26]

Mine are 5° gaps, but if they were 6°, don't think us mere mortals would be able to tell the difference.

[Everardo]

Currently playing 4° gaps (46, 50, 54, 58) but just cause I'm used to my wedge grid that Pelz taught but I'm seeing quite a bit of over lap so I may go back to 3 wedges and larger gaps. TXG had a nice little video about this. For me, the wedge grid is a smarter way to figure things on the course, especially with 3 wedges

 

[RonW]

On 11/18/2021 at 4:42 AM, MNUte said:

Same for me. I have my 44, 48, 52 and 58 degree wedges. But I'm generally more comfortable hitting partial shots with my 48 and 58 than I am hitting full or partial shots with my 52. So in essence, my bag is 44, 48 and 58 except for pretty specific situations. 

Identical for me, 44°, 48°, 52° & 58°....... I'm comfortable manipulating my 52°

[Tom the Golf Nut]

My set up is 5 degrees apart.  PW is 45, GW is 50, SW is 55 and Lob is 60.

[BIG STU]

Traditionally I went 48 56 and sometimes 60. Right now I am in a major transition stage both swing and equipment. Coming off of steel shafted blades with traditional lofts to graphite and somewhat jacked lofts I am having to change stuff around some. My current set the PW is 46* and the combination of the shafts and somewhat hot faces has me in experiment mode. I went with a "Gap" wedge for the first time about a month ago. I was using the Mack Daddy 52 in my signature. I am also experimenting with a Old School Macgregor VFQ 11 iron I bought back in November. It checks out at 50*. I have used it quite a bit messing around and I am sorta getting the old feel back with it. Had one like it when I was younger and it got stolen.  Also right now working on dialing in the 56 PM wedge. I did an extensive sole grind on it going from 13* to 10* bounce. Been messing around with weight placement and getting used to the feel. With the Mac wedge and the different shots I am relearning with it I think I can pretty much cover a 6* gap. Someone may ask why do I not since I have my loft and lie machine bump the 56 back some? Simple answer is I have remember my own custom sole grind on it and it is ground to 56* loft and 64* lie. Bumping it back even 2* will mess with the bounce in more than one way. I think I have said this before I only carry 12 clubs as SOP and it leaves me room on either end to add. On courses around here that have soft fluffy greenside bunkers I will slip one of my 60*  LW in. Depends on my knowledge of the course what LW I slip in because there it is all about the bounce. Normally I do not have a lot of bounce on wedges I hit out of the fairway

[Shaner101]

I have 46 52 56 62 and this is a good set up for me. Dialing in the “3 finger” PW was the most work I had to do because a hard GW puts too much spin and it’s hard to dial in that yardage. 

[John W Sutch]

Presently playing Ping 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Presently playing Ping G700 irons. PW is 44 and GW is 49. Have a Hogan SW at 54 deg with Texas grind and a Ping Eye 2 60 deg if needed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[BH43]

Iplay a GW, Pw, 52, 54.

[Jaybuck4]

I also have a 44 degree PW and a 50° gap wedge and I sense that it is about 14 yards in between clubs I believe that it’s best for me to look at a 48° wedge to keep the gapping at 4° and then have a 52 and 56. Each gap does equate to about 10 yards

[Donn lost in San Diego]

My pw is either 44 or 46, whatever std loft i for Ping I 500.  My next is a 52 deg 9 bounce Mizuno on a full swing is about 80 yds, so like others, I hit a slighltly less than full swing on the PW, a real good full swing gets 110 yds.  I have a 50 deg Mizu too but haven't played enough to start using it on my regular course.  

[BostonSal]

I would imagine that to be fairly common.

6° isn't a big gap.

[Nitti]

I have played 6* gap in my wedges for the past 5 years or more. As my swing speed has slowed, I'm 68, this created better yardage gapping. I play two different sets of irons, one with a 50* GW and a 56* SW and a seconds set at 46*PW, 52* GW and 58* LW. I'd really like to find an iron set with 6* gapping that isn't a game improvement iron with jacked up lofts. I may just have order them bent that way.

[JFS2]

I play 4 degree gap:  46, 50, 54, 58.  Works out great.  Not sure about 6 degrees.  However, 46, 54, 60 sounds pretty nice.   Maybe the thing about 6 degrees is less confusion over which wedge to play.

[TitleistMike]

The gap differential to distance isn't linear.

As face angle gets flatter, a larger gap is needed to generate same landing gaps differentials.

 

Blame it on gravity, physics, and algebra.

 

[Hammer4413]

I am.....46/52/58 Cleveland CBX wedges with excellent results.

 

[Jweck21]

If you have smaller gaps between your driver, 3w, 5w, 3i/h, and 4i/h than you do your wedges you're just wrong. Tight gapping in your irons and wedges allows for more precision with distance control where you need it. 4° gaps is the way to go. The only gap where I would consider 6° is between my SW and my LW and that's because my LW is strictly used around the greens, it is never used as an approach club. 

[Stuka44]

I bought my new irons specifically for 2 reasons, first slightly more aggressively lofted at top.  Second specifically that PW/AW were less lofted than in old set, and the 4 degree gapping gave me just what I needed in carry from them.   I found just the opposite from what some have said.   I found I needed the 4 degree gapping  to get the yardages I needed, given my swing.