What is a GW/AW?, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles
What is a GW/AW?, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles

If you have ever noticed that your yardage gaps between your irons remain quite consistent it’s about 10 yards apart from most of your irons but until you get to your pitching wedge and sand wedge then you might feel there is quite a big gap with your sand wedge going almost 20 to 25 yards shorter than your pitching wedge. Now there is a reason for that and that’s because throughout the set the degrees of loft that change between a three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and pitch would change by between three and half degrees and four degrees per club for most manufacturers. When you get to your pitching wedge to sand wedge that gap could be eight degrees big, now if you work on the principal that each degree would change the distance you hit the ball by about three yards, so between three and half and four degrees per club normally would give you 10 yards, 12 yards something like that. But then when you get to this gap between pitching wedge at about 48, sand wedge at 56, suddenly there is an 8 degree space, that could be a 24 yard gap. Most greens are about 25-30 yards deep that means your sand wedge would not get to the front edge but your pitching wedge would get right to the back edge, maybe even off the back edge of the green.

So my solution for this and I think you should have this in your bag would be a gap wedge. Now a gap wedge a GW some people call it an approach wedge something like that, it’s basically fills that gap that yardage space between pitching wedge and sand wedge should aim to get at around about 52 degrees but it might be 50 or 51 degrees depended on your specific pitching wedge and sand wedge setup, but don’t worry too much about the numbers that printed on the bottom, worry about how far it goes, so go to the practice ground hit a handful of pitching wedges then a handful of sand wedges workout your average yardage and you will probably find it’s about 20 to 25 yards apart, now you need to find a club that fills that gap, it would be around about 52 degrees I would think, play with the same technique that you would play your pitching wedge, just around about the center hands nicely ahead, good impact position where your body weights on to your left side and squeeze it nice and low and see where the yardage edge gap comes but I think a gap wedge is essential to have in your bag, if you haven’t got one currently check out  www.thomasgolf.com and see the rang of their fantastic wedges.

 2012-07-12

If you have ever noticed that your yardage gaps between your irons remain quite consistent it’s about 10 yards apart from most of your irons but until you get to your pitching wedge and sand wedge then you might feel there is quite a big gap with your sand wedge going almost 20 to 25 yards shorter than your pitching wedge. Now there is a reason for that and that’s because throughout the set the degrees of loft that change between a three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and pitch would change by between three and half degrees and four degrees per club for most manufacturers. When you get to your pitching wedge to sand wedge that gap could be eight degrees big, now if you work on the principal that each degree would change the distance you hit the ball by about three yards, so between three and half and four degrees per club normally would give you 10 yards, 12 yards something like that. But then when you get to this gap between pitching wedge at about 48, sand wedge at 56, suddenly there is an 8 degree space, that could be a 24 yard gap. Most greens are about 25-30 yards deep that means your sand wedge would not get to the front edge but your pitching wedge would get right to the back edge, maybe even off the back edge of the green.

So my solution for this and I think you should have this in your bag would be a gap wedge. Now a gap wedge a GW some people call it an approach wedge something like that, it’s basically fills that gap that yardage space between pitching wedge and sand wedge should aim to get at around about 52 degrees but it might be 50 or 51 degrees depended on your specific pitching wedge and sand wedge setup, but don’t worry too much about the numbers that printed on the bottom, worry about how far it goes, so go to the practice ground hit a handful of pitching wedges then a handful of sand wedges workout your average yardage and you will probably find it’s about 20 to 25 yards apart, now you need to find a club that fills that gap, it would be around about 52 degrees I would think, play with the same technique that you would play your pitching wedge, just around about the center hands nicely ahead, good impact position where your body weights on to your left side and squeeze it nice and low and see where the yardage edge gap comes but I think a gap wedge is essential to have in your bag, if you haven’t got one currently check out www.thomasgolf.com and see the rang of their fantastic wedges.