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2. Sand wedge - Wikipedia

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   The modern sand wedge is often [when?] the heaviest iron in a player's bag, with most weighing nearly 16 oz (470 grams). Traditionally it also had the highest loft at 56 degrees (55–56 being most common), although that distinction now [when?] goes to the lob wedge, which often [when?] has a loft of 60 degrees or more.

3. Wedge (golf) - Wikipedia

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   The class of wedges grew out of the need for a better club for playing soft lies and short shots. Prior to the 1930s, the best club for short "approach" shots was the "niblick", roughly equivalent to today's 9-iron or pitching wedge in loft; however the design of this club, with a flat, angled face and virtually no "sole", made it difficult to use in sand and other soft lies as it was prone to ...

4. Gap wedge - Wikipedia

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   Gap wedges are loosely defined, but typically have the loft between that of a pitching wedge and sand wedge, between 50 and 54 degrees. [2] At the extremes there is redundancy with either the pitching wedge (typically 48°) or the sand wedge (typically 56°), however some players will "fine-tune" the lofts of these other wedges to their play style, leading to alternate loft choices for a gap ...

5. Pitching wedge - Wikipedia

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   Though technically a wedge, pitching wedges are generally treated as if they were numbered irons.This is for a number of reasons: first, before the term "wedge" became common for high-loft short irons, the pitching wedge was actually numbered as the "10-iron" of a matched set, and to this day it follows the normal loft progression of the numbered irons.

6. Gene Sarazen - Wikipedia

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   Sarazen claimed to have invented the modern sand wedge, [8] and debuted the club (while keeping it secret during preliminary practice rounds) at The Open Championship at Prince's Golf Club in 1932 (which he won). He called it the sand iron. The original club he used is no longer on display at Prince's as it is worth too much for the insurers to ...

7. Lob wedge - Wikipedia

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   After 1931, additional wedges entered the golf bag starting with the sand wedge. [3] The lob wedge was first envisioned by Dave Pelz , a former physicist for NASA , who recognized the need for higher loft wedges (at the time 60 degrees) due to the increasing complexity of the putting greens being designed at the time.