Are your wedges also CB?

If not, why not?

My wedges are not. The argument for blade wedges or irons are consistent distance control. I don't need forgiveness on my shortest swing. I would rather have consistent distance control.

I'm not apposed to changing my mind though.

My favorite club in my bag is currently a 54 Cleveland CBX wedge. My irons are Cobra Baffler XL.

My PW is. Gap, SW and LW are not.

I made the switch to my gap wedge that goes with my iron set. Sand wedge and lob wedge are still blades.

Exactly the reason jj said. I'm not taking tons of full shots with my 58 and 62. The gap wedge I found myself hitting a lot of full 120 yard shots, so I switched over.

Blade wedges 54 and 60....I only hit my 54 with a full swing...I don't remember the last full swing I took with my 60.

All for reasons above and also feel like it's easier to hit the smaller profile wedges out of rough....whether its true or not I don't know but at address it looks like it would be easier. I had a 52 degree vokey as well but have switched that out with my A wedge which is more forgiving. I hit that club a lot so I figured more forgiving is better from the 125 range

G Martin 87 said:

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My favorite club in my bag is currently a 54 Cleveland CBX wedge. My irons are Cobra Baffler XL.

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I brag on my CBX to everyone I play with.

Have a CBX 2 54* on the way. Pretty excited to see what it has to offer.

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Without getting into the weeds...there's a reason why it's easier to hit a full swing 54* on a rope than it is a 4-iron.

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Entering the weeds:

If you have a chance to look at Dave Pelz' Short Game Bible, he shows some plots of hundreds/thousands of iron shots. The pattern that ultimately comes about is (if looking from the sky downward to a green)...

...with wedges, the pattern ends up looking like the number 8, with a large amount of shots both short and long, but not necessarily way out to the sides. Reason? As jj mentions above - backspin (or the other way to think about it - less side spin). You don't spray wedges, because it's hard to with the backspin keeping things on target better, but the high backspin makes controlling the distance tougher.

...with longer irons, the pattern ends up looking like a sideways 8 or an infinity symbol. Easier to control distance, but the added side spin (or less backspin) causes balls to go right or left of target. For the average golfer, on a decently struck long iron - it is less likely you are short or long of the green, but pretty close to pin high. Reason you might come up way left or right AND short is just due to poor contact together.

This is why distance control with wedges and the short game (including putting) is most important. You will score more if you learn to control your distance with wedges, and Pelz has some techniques to help do that which resonate well for some people, but not with others. Other teachers have different techniques so find something that works. If you take a general approach to target line with your short game, and focus 90% of your efforts on distance control...your scores will plummet.

This might help....you can be off direction by 50% and still have a tap in putt, but 10% off in speed on putts causes 3 putts:

2018 Titleist MB 3-PW, 52 and 60 degree Titleist SM7 wedges.

I once wore out the sweet spot on Mizuno MP33 irons...

Even though I'm tracking 2.8 index, I hit the ball all over the face including my lob wedge on short chips.

I agree distance control is the key with all my irons on both full and partial swings and I'm pretty decent with both.

But mis-hit with blade causes more distance loss vs. my cavity back oversize iron where pretty much everywhere on the face provides a decent distance control in my anecdotal experience.

My irons match up to 56 degree SW but unfortunately Mizuno didn't make a matching T-zoid LW.

Would love to have an oversize perimeter weighed CB LW with 6 degree bounce.

03ki11erAG said:

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My wedges are not. The argument for blade wedges or irons are consistent distance control. I don't need forgiveness on my shortest swing. I would rather have consistent distance control.

I'm not apposed to changing my mind though.

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Forgiveness is the key to distance control in my game.