Spin isn’t just one number. A wedge produces it in different situations and the best ones deliver it in a number of different ways. There’s the full swing, where you’re trying to hold a green from 90-plus yards. There’s the 50-yard shot, where you’re trying to control how far the ball releases. And there’s the wet shot, with dew on the fairway or damp rough around the green.
Some wedges are great at all three situations and others struggle. Our spin score in our 2026 Most Wanted Wedge test combines four measurements: full-swing spin, 50-yard dry spin, 50-yard wet spin and how much spin a wedge keeps when moisture is added.
How we tested
We tested 15 wedges, all 56 degrees in loft, across 240 hours and 11,400 shots. Every shot was hit with a Titleist Pro V1 on a Foresight GC Quad at our indoor facility in Yorktown, Va., in three conditions: full swing, 50 yards dry and 50 yards wet. Spin makes up 30 percent of a wedge’s overall MGS Score.
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What the spin results tell us
Dry spin barely separates anything. Across all 15 wedges, 50-yard dry spin ran from 6,729 to 7,217 rpm, a 488-rpm spread. Add water and the gap grows to more than 3,700 rpm. If you’re picking a wedge off a dry-range number, you’re looking at the part of the test that tells you the least.
Full-swing spin doesn’t separate much either. The top five finished within about 370 rpm of each other, from 9,057 to 9,429.
Wet retention explains most of this list. Four of the five wedges here finished in the top six for wet spin retention. The exception is the New Level SPN V3 which had the highest dry spin of the group (7,062 rpm) but kept only 83 percent of it in the wet. It made the list on the strength of its overall spin numbers which shows why we score spin across all four measurements and not just one.
Peak spin isn’t the goal
The Performance Golf ONE.1 led the test in full-swing spin (9,865 rpm) and dry 50-yard spin (7,217 rpm) but fell to 3,506 rpm when wet and ranked near the bottom in overall spin performance. The wedge that spins the most on a clean, dry strike isn’t always the one that holds the green when conditions change.
You’ve got some good options for spin in 2026
If your current set of wedges has been through a couple of years of play and they aren’t producing much spin, it’s time for a replacement. The Kirkland GEN 3 costs $67 per wedge and earned the same 9.0 spin score as a $199.99 Vokey.
The SPN V3 is $149. Spin performance in this test didn’t follow price.
What you give up with the budget options are bounce and grind choices. The Kirkland comes in 52, 56 and 60 degrees with no grind or bounce options while the Vokey SM11 offers 27 loft, bounce and grind combinations.
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