Irrespective of your handicap, it is very important to have the correct equipment for your game. You have to feel comfortable with what clubs you have in your hand, how they look and how they feel. If you play on a hard/ dry course you will want a low bounce club, this will allow you to slide under the ball and pop it up. Low bounce wedges also are good for those with a shallow swing arc. High bounce wedges are ideal if you play on a wet or very soft course, or have an aggressive swing path, which means you are a digger. High bounce clubs are better for playing out of the rough, and also bunkers.
If you get the correct clubs for your game your handicap will drop, and once you get to a lower handicap you would want the correct clubs anyway.
Bounce is the angle of the sole to the ground. A lower bounce wedge will perform better on courses with tight lies, fairway shots and tight compacted sand. Typically a Low Bounce wedge will be in the 0-10° range.
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The 54 is a sand wedge, SWs have a higher bounce to get the ball out of sand easier.
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The bounce of a wedge has no effect on the amount of spin. The key things that produce spin are a milled face, clean deep grooves and compressing the ball on impact. A golf ball can also have a lot to do with the spin produced.
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Bounce is the angle from the leading edge of the club face across the bottom of the club. If you have 7 degrees of bounce, the bottom part (part that rests on the ground) of the club will angle down toward the ground at 7 degrees. This is designed to keep the leading edge of the club from digging into the ground or sand as clubface strikes the ball. If you play where there is soft, deep sand you generally want more bounce. If the ground is hard and the sand soft, you may be well advised to use a sand wedge with lots of bounce (7-10 degrees) and a wedge from the ground with little bounce. Hit em straight and seldom--
There are primarily 3 types of wedges, Pitching, Sand and Lob. A Pitching wedge has about 46-48 degrees of loft, a Sand wedge has about 54-56 degrees of loft and a lob wedge has about 58- even 64 degrees. Depending on player preference they can have low or high bounce which can assist getting out of the sand and help when playing certain types of course, if you have a low bounce club on soggy turf you may go under the ball easier, not getting proper contact. There are also gap wedges which are designed to fit between the Pitching and Sand wedge, at about 50 or 52 degrees.
A wedge is a highly lofted golf iron. There are many types, pitching, sand, gap, approach and lob, however, wedge usually refers to a pitching wedge. They have numerous loft options ranging from 46-64 degrees and they are the only club with different bounce options. They are used to hit the ball relatively short distances, so 125 yards and in, and are frequently used as pitching and chipping clubs.
For the average amateur golfer, the standard complement of clubs is: Driver 3 Wood 5 Wood 3 Iron or Hybrid 4 Iron or Hybrid 5 Iron or Hybrid 6 Iron 7 Iron 8 Iron 9 Iron Pitching Wedge Sand Wedge Lob Wedge Putter However, the is no "standard" set, and you may find that a Gap Wedge is more useful than a Lob Wedge (Gap is between PW and SW).
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