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#13,802
vol_in_ar said:
your pitching wedge is probably 45 or 46 degrees, so get a 50 or 52 degree.....
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That is good advice. Back when I started playing in the 1960's, a pitching wedge was between 50 and 52 degrees. I think that Tommy Armour Golf was the first company that started strengthening the lofts of their irons.

Everybody then was convinced that Armour's irons were longer, so more club manufacturers started strengthening all irons until today's pitching wedge is the loft of an 8 or 9 iron back in the 1960's. You still need a club about 50 to 52 for a lot of pitch shots. If you just have a 45 or 46 degree PW, there is a big gap between that and a sand wedge ( which stayed about 55 or 56 degrees because that is what you need out of most sand. Therefore, the gap wedge was invented to fill in that gap .
 
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#13,809
#13,809
I checked the Titleist website , and they show 2 gap wedges. They show the P at 43, the W at 47, and the W2 at 52. Your gap is between 47 and your sand wedge , which is a 56, I assume? Do you carry a lob wedge?
 
#13,811
#13,811
volfanbill said:
Holy crap. If those are forged, I'd get it bent to 45 and still get a 50
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They aren't forged, but he has a 47, so he's got part of the gap covered. You can bend a lot of the cast clubs a couple of degrees, depending on the type of steel and hardening.

The AP1 irons use tungsten weights to lower center of gravity, and apparently they hit higher than their lofts, at least on a full shot. I wouldn't think that would make you hit a short pitch any higher, but I could be wrong.
 
#13,812
#13,812
1972 Grad said:
I checked the Titleist website , and they show 2 gap wedges. They show the P at 43, the W at 47, and the W2 at 52. Your gap is between 47 and your sand wedge , which is a 56, I assume? Do you carry a lob wedge?
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I do not. This is a new set and I haven't got to hit them much due to the weather. I don't wave the W2, just the PW and W(1). Once I play with them more I'll see about getting another wedge.

My Sw is a Vokey (56, 14, F grind).
 
#13,813
#13,813
Yankee_Vol said:
I do not. This is a new set and I haven't got to hit them much due to the weather. I don't wave the W2, just the PW and W(1). Once I play with them more I'll see about getting another wedge.

My Sw is a Vokey (56, 14, F grind).
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You may be able to get by with what you have , but a club around 50 to 52 comes in pretty handy. I would rather have that than a lob wedge, but that is just my opinion.

The strange thing is that when I was in college at U.T., a few of us played with a putter and 1 other club. I think I shot 41 on the front 9 at Bays Mtn with a 6 iron and a putter. Another guy shot 42 with the same 2 clubs. We drove with putters or played the iron back in our stance, and tried to hit a low running hook.

When we hit into the green, we would open the face to add loft to the 6 iron if we needed to hit a shorter than normal distance. I bent my putter hitting off the tee. It was a heel shafted blade.

One guy hit a beautiful tee shot with a putter from about 200 yards on the par 3 #7 hole to about 15 feet. He flew it on the green with a mallet head putter. It was a low, boring trajectory with about a 5 yard draw.

Another friend played in a 4 club tournament a few years ago, and shot around his normal mid 70 score. I think he said that he had a 3 wood, putter, middle iron and a wedge of some sort.
 
#13,814
#13,814
Shot a 57 once using just a ball retriever, a cart bag, driver shaft and a junior putter.

Keep in the fairway distance on the ball retriever catapult drives was about 350.625 yards.
 
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#13,816
#13,816
I have an idea for the perfect set of golf clubs for anyone over about a 7 or 8 handicap.

1) Driver: 43.5 to 44 inches long 11 degrees loft, adjustable from 9 to 13 degrees.
2) Fairway wood: 41.5 inches 19 degrees loft.
3) Fairway wood: 40.5 inches long 23 degrees loft, or Hybrid 40 inches 22 degrees loft.
4) Hybrid: 39 inches 27 degrees, or iron 25 degrees 38 inches.
5) Iron: 30 degrees 37.5 inches.
6) Iron: 35 degrees 37 inches.
7) Iron: 40 degrees 36.5 inches.
8) Iron: 45 degrees 36.5 inches
9) Iron: 48 degrees 36 inches. PW
10)Iron: 52 degrees 35.5 inches. GW
11)Iron: 56 degrees 35.5 inches. SW.
12) Putter.

Any comments or suggestions?
 
#13,818
#13,818
1972 Grad said:
I have an idea for the perfect set of golf clubs for anyone over about a 7 or 8 handicap.

1) Driver: 43.5 to 44 inches long 11 degrees loft, adjustable from 9 to 13 degrees.
2) Fairway wood: 41.5 inches 19 degrees loft.
3) Fairway wood: 40.5 inches long 23 degrees loft, or Hybrid 40 inches 22 degrees loft.
4) Hybrid: 39 inches 27 degrees, or iron 25 degrees 38 inches.
5) Iron: 30 degrees 37.5 inches.
6) Iron: 35 degrees 37 inches.
7) Iron: 40 degrees 36.5 inches.
8) Iron: 45 degrees 36.5 inches
9) Iron: 48 degrees 36 inches. PW
10)Iron: 52 degrees 35.5 inches. GW
11)Iron: 56 degrees 35.5 inches. SW.
12) Putter.

Any comments or suggestions?
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At my best, I can get down to around a ten. If I played an 11.5 driver, all I'd be doing is giving centerfielders shag practice
 
#13,823
#13,823
1972 Grad said:
They were 845, then 855, weren't they? Silver Scot. You are right about awesome.
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Played 845's back then. Good clubs. Always felt I could break 80 with them even if I had not played in awhile. After a period of playing forged Mizuno's until I got too old to hit them well, I moved back to cast with the Ping G. Love them. Got all my distances back from a decade ago and they seem to handle the wind even with a medium to high ball flight.
 
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