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    Hello and advice

    Hello I have just joined the forum. I played golf as a teenager and am just starting to take it up again, in my retirement. Can anyone advise on purchasing a pitching wedge and what degree of loft I should opt for. I have nothing between my nine iron and a sixty degree sand wedge.
    Regards
    Richard
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    Re: Hello and advice

    hi
    do you know the loft of your 9 iron.
    do you want to split the difference in distance between the 9 iron and the 60% s/wedge or do you want it a bit closer to the 9 iron than the 60% s/wedge.
    cheers
    bill

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    • #3
      Re: Hello and advice

      Find out what loft your 9 iron is, then go 4 or 5 degrees more in loft for your PW, then 4 or 5 more for your AW (if necessary), then 4 or 5 more for your SW if necessary.

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      • #4
        Re: Hello and advice

        Thanks. Will have to try and measure my nine iron. Seems like I really need two wedges. Pardon my ignorance, what is a AW?
        Regards
        Richard

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        • #5
          Re: Hello and advice

          As the years have gone on, manufacturers have slowly started decreasing the lofts of clubs. So what used to be a PW is now a 9 iron, a 9 is an 8, etc. What happened is that the sand wedge stayed the same (about 56 degrees of loft) while the PW moved from 52 to 48 (and in modern sets now to 44). This loft decrease made a gigantic yardage gap. When the PW went to 48 degrees, the golf manufacturers "invented" a "gap" or "approach" wedge - to fill the gap from the PW to the SW.

          If your 9 iron is 48, then you need a modern gap wedge at 52. If your 9 iron is 44, then you need a 52 and a 48.

          To clearly answer the question, an AW is an approach wedge (aka Gap wedge) and fits between the PW and the SW.

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