I think you should add a ten yard bunker shot to your data because the green-side bunker shot is a common use for wedges.

This site is fantastic. I’m new here. I recently changed from ap2 to jpx forged 900. Love love love the feel of the irons. Wedges I have vokey sm6. 52, 56 & 60 in bag. Almost time to re tool. I’m definitely going to check them Izzy t7s out. I never knew this. Thank you

Bounce is very important and you do not have to be a pro or top golfer to understand it. If golf fitters would explain it the average person they would benefit greatly by being fit properly. It really depends on the course condition you are playing, where I play very little bounce is needed so why have 12degrees of bounce when you only need 4 . A good fitter would know this just ask them to help no need buying a wedge if you only struggle with it.

Why was the Hogan V-Sole wedge not included, as you don’t have to worry about “bounce”? All that bounce stuff is way to complicated for any but professionals and top amateurs.

My sm6 are so amazing! Love them in every way.

Glad to see the PMP near the top in 2 of the categories. Great wedge’s. I’m betting you’d be hard pressed to find a bad one out of the bunch. It’s all feel, and what the player likes. Great write up once again. Thank you and keep up the good work!

MGS staff — Are you finding that these MW tests are starting to get less and less neccesary with the very minimal tech advancements in clubs? Even if you determine one club to be “better” than the other for you test group, it’s still only marginally better in terms of SG and may not actually be the one best suited for any one individual’s swing. When the margins on performance are so tight, the slightest change in swing type could skew the results on a micro scale substantially. It’s almost as if you can just go to the store, pick the the club you like the best, buy it, and be almost as likely to have it perform as good or better than the one MGS ranks #1 (based on an average at the macro scale).

I do find a lot of value in your ball testing though, b/c it brings a second variable into play: cost. Maybe the ProV1 and the Snell perform similarly and are basically interchangeable on the course, but with the price-point of the Snell being almost a 1/3 that of the ProV, the performance differences (or similarities) b/w the two are magnified. It helps you make an informed, fiscally sound purchasing decision.

Too bad you didn’t test Edel wedges. On the other hand, they have so many bounce choices – which is their strength – proper fitting – it may not have been reflected in the results. I have a 56 and a 60 degree. The 56 is bent to 54 to get the right distance and the 60 somehow got bent to 62.5 which works great as well. I save a lot of shots around the green, especially if short-sided.

Could you confirm the bounce used on the Top 3 wedges in the test?

Been playing Mizuno wedges for 5 years, the groves hold up better than any other manufacturer. Must be the added Boron added into the carbon steel. No better forging…

Look at all distances not just one. 15, 40, FULL. Strokes Gained was used at all 3.

Not the RTX 3, not the CBX, but the RTX 3 CB came in at #2. They’re in my bag, that’s where they’re staying. AWESOME wedges.

Had a few Mizuno wedges over the years and they always delivered. Playing Fourteen wedges now and I love them.

The strokes gained numbers seem to be off to me. How is the ball closest to the hole in feet not the best in strokes gained. It also puts a very big difference on the 15 yard shot for 1.63 feet to 1.70 feet. Come on be realistic. The 15 yard wedge for almost everyone of those clubs is about 4 to 4 1/2 feet. 6 to 8 inches is not that big a difference for most golfers.

Why is Vokey # 3 when Fourteen & S18 are ranked higher on chart???

While the other data is interesting, it still to me that distance to the hole is the only relevant stat. I’ve been looking at the number and just can’t understand how some of the wedges true ranks are higher/lower than another based on the data provided.

I appreciate what you guys are trying to do, but do you have a statistician on you staff that can evaluate this data. It appears to me that in each distance there are several wedges that have data that is within the experimental error range and cannot be accurately ranked. Normally the way that kind of data is presented is Group A(Best) Group B (next) Group C (next) etc.

Also, what is the formula for strokes gained and what data is used to determine it.

Great peace on wedges . Like always mizuno is always been underrated ,personally I think the best iron product ever made. I’ll remain to be a big fan of their clubs.

I just went wedge shopping and I can agree with this. I like the Mizuno slightly above the Cleveland wedges but I got two of the Cleveland ones for the price of 1 Mizuno. So of course went Cleveland. And the difference between the top 3 or 4 are not that much different for a 10 handicap guy.

I picked up the T7 52 and 56 wedges this year and they are amazing! I am now going to get the T7 48 to fit a gap that is driving me crazy at that 120 yard range. Stunning wedges, I did put the Recoil 110s in mine as well

Just curious, were all the wedges same specs Loft said 56* but were they all checked out on loft and lie machine to make sure all were exactly 56* ? Also were they the same sole Grind, bounce, same Lie angle, same Length? That would tend to give different results.

I play Mizuno wedges – the best I have ever used. Like much better that Vokey.

I would have liked to have seen a wedge such as the GigaGolf SGS $29.50 scoring wedge included in the test. This site is supposed to just show the truth about golf equipment. I have used these and find them as good as any of my name brand wedges. For $30 you can’t go wrong.

I’m a big fan of Mizuno wedges. Sadly, they keep getting shafted with silver medals over and over on the hot list. Very underrated wedges.

Damn I shouldn’t have gone with the Sizemore wedges…

Played the Mizuno for the first time this year and agree it was as good if not better than any played in the past. Looking forward to getting a new set with a T7. Mine was 14° and will go with slightly less bounce next year.

I just bought the Cleveland CBX wedges, after having both the Taylormade tour preferred and the Renegar RX14. I felt like the CBX doesn’t offer me as much feel around the green but the forgiveness more than makes up for it. Like i can’t tell “oh i hit that one out toward the toe” but i also don’t have to worry about mishits hurting me as badly.

Not surprised at all, tried the T7 at a demo day and it literally felt like point and shoot. That being said, it was off a mat. I also admit I haven’t tried any other wedges, but at that time it was awesome. I play mizuno GI irons and MP-T11 wedges and in all honestly likely need to go to more of GI wedge at this point due to my lack of time to practice.
Looks like the CBX faired pretty well too

Mizuno also you get no upcharge for custom regardless of shaft and grip so you can match them straight into your set

Maybe I missed it somewhere, but can I assume the test was conducted off grass and not mats? I get very different results hitting wedges off mats than grass. Is turf firm, soft; what are the conditions?

Thanks for the review, just ordered 1 Muz. T7 did the 60 & 6bounce, I’ll try it out. Never owned a Mizuno club, 1st timer

For me, though the Mizuno is a fine wedge, I think the Vokey is the best overall as it is consistently in the top 3 in spin and carry deviation on 15, 40, and full shots.

Que the people who will piss and moan that their wedge was not selected as the best….

I bought the 50, 56, 60 degree Mizuno T7 wedges at the end of last year from Club Champion, i have kbs tour 120 shafts in them and they are by far the best I have ever hit. I love the blue and most of my colleagues love them too. My only description is buttery. They instill so much confidence, when you hit them. I hate the 50 yard shot off the fairway but with the 60 degree, I have the confidence to hit it tight.

I’ve had Cleveland’s, titlest and most recently I had 5 Scor wedges which I really liked but I found the Mizunos to be much more forgiving and I’ve been able to stop the ball and back it up much more consistently with them. I’m a 10 handicap so I’m not sure how they would be for a 20+ but I can’t endorse them enough and most importantly, they have them in Left Handed.

What I love most about the data you collect is I can sort it as needed and come up with “my own” winner =).

I have a handful of companies I get discounts from and I like to use your data to chose among those companies. Most important to me in this test was the launch angle and spin numbers.

Good for Miz. Although I could never play a blue club, LOL.

“What’s important isn’t the absolute number, but rather how the numbers compare from club to club.”

Help me understand this since the distance between best and worst is only 0.16 strokes gained. Does that mean that the best wedge is worth less than 1/5 a stroke per round for an amateur?