Other Uses For A Golf Lob Wedge (Video) - by Pete Styles
Other Uses For A Golf Lob Wedge (Video) - by Pete Styles

If you have now established that you definitely should have a lob wedge in your bag and how important it can be, we also need to understand that it can be quite a versatile golf club for you as well. There’s a couple of other uses where you could use your lob wedge out on a golf course. The first one actually on a green side bunker. I wouldn’t necessarily recommend you use it all of the time at a green side bunker; your sand wedge is better designed to do that job. But actually if you got yourself in a bunker where your ball is at the base of the bunker, there is a very steep lift to the side of the bunker and the flag was only just on top of that lid, we’ve to get the ball out very, very quickly.

The very versatile and very lofted lob wedge could be useful there, keep the face nice and open, almost play it like a flop shot out of the bunker where you are really trying to get the club to come underneath the ball, utilize the loft, the ball should shoot out of the bunker quicker and stop faster than if you are playing that with a sand wedge. That’s one really nice use for your lob wedge. Other nice positions where you can use your lob wedge is actually just getting the ball out of trouble. If you’ve found that your ball is sitting down in some very, very long thick grass, you need to cut underneath the ball to get the ball out of that long grass, because no club is better suited than your lob wedge. You actually look at the lob wedge in profile, it almost just sits like a knife, very different from say a traditional set of seven or six, it’s almost vertical here that would be hitting into the grass, almost like the side of the bush is hitting into the grass, it’s not going to go anywhere. But this is really going to cut through the grass and go underneath the ball. So a lob wedge is very useful when you are trying to just jab the ball out of some long grass and cut the ball out of any trouble. The other nice position where you could use the lob wedge is just to bump the ball out of the rough from around the side of the green. So if you play a US Open style of golf course where you got a small green, then you got some thick tangly rough around the side, to chip the ball out of that long grass, get it onto the green and get it to stop fairly quickly is a difficult shot at the best of times. To play it with a lob wedge it might feel a little bit easier, so we can grip down on the club, lean onto the left side and jab the ball out of the long grass, but hopefully utilizing the lob wedge, you can see how the club can cut through the grass, pitch the ball out nice and quickly and hopefully get a little bit of spin when the ball lands on the green. It’s a tough shot but it’s certainly going to be the most useful club. So if you’ve got a lob wedge in your bag, you’ll find lots of different uses of how to play that club to help improve your skills. 2016-05-05

If you have now established that you definitely should have a lob wedge in your bag and how important it can be, we also need to understand that it can be quite a versatile golf club for you as well. There’s a couple of other uses where you could use your lob wedge out on a golf course. The first one actually on a green side bunker. I wouldn’t necessarily recommend you use it all of the time at a green side bunker; your sand wedge is better designed to do that job. But actually if you got yourself in a bunker where your ball is at the base of the bunker, there is a very steep lift to the side of the bunker and the flag was only just on top of that lid, we’ve to get the ball out very, very quickly.

The very versatile and very lofted lob wedge could be useful there, keep the face nice and open, almost play it like a flop shot out of the bunker where you are really trying to get the club to come underneath the ball, utilize the loft, the ball should shoot out of the bunker quicker and stop faster than if you are playing that with a sand wedge. That’s one really nice use for your lob wedge. Other nice positions where you can use your lob wedge is actually just getting the ball out of trouble. If you’ve found that your ball is sitting down in some very, very long thick grass, you need to cut underneath the ball to get the ball out of that long grass, because no club is better suited than your lob wedge.

You actually look at the lob wedge in profile, it almost just sits like a knife, very different from say a traditional set of seven or six, it’s almost vertical here that would be hitting into the grass, almost like the side of the bush is hitting into the grass, it’s not going to go anywhere. But this is really going to cut through the grass and go underneath the ball. So a lob wedge is very useful when you are trying to just jab the ball out of some long grass and cut the ball out of any trouble. The other nice position where you could use the lob wedge is just to bump the ball out of the rough from around the side of the green.

So if you play a US Open style of golf course where you got a small green, then you got some thick tangly rough around the side, to chip the ball out of that long grass, get it onto the green and get it to stop fairly quickly is a difficult shot at the best of times. To play it with a lob wedge it might feel a little bit easier, so we can grip down on the club, lean onto the left side and jab the ball out of the long grass, but hopefully utilizing the lob wedge, you can see how the club can cut through the grass, pitch the ball out nice and quickly and hopefully get a little bit of spin when the ball lands on the green. It’s a tough shot but it’s certainly going to be the most useful club. So if you’ve got a lob wedge in your bag, you’ll find lots of different uses of how to play that club to help improve your skills.