Building a Vokey Wedge Setup for Your Course

Start with your turf

Wedges are the only clubs whose performance depends as much on ground conditions as on your swing. Describe your home course honestly before choosing anything.

Firm, dry, tight lies, sandy soil. Lower bounce and relieved grinds. High bounce will bounce the leading edge into the equator of the ball.

Soft, lush, wet winters, heavy soil. More bounce. Low bounce will dig and produce fat shots.

Mixed. Mid bounce throughout, accepting that no single setup is ideal in both.

Then look at your bunkers

Bunker sand varies enormously and is often nothing like the turf around it. Soft, deep sand wants high bounce. Firm, thin, compacted sand wants less.

If your course has one but not the other, fit your sand wedge to the bunkers and your other wedges to the turf.

Setting the lofts

Work downward from your pitching wedge, not upward from your lob wedge.

Note the actual loft of your set pitching wedge. With T250 or T350 this may be much stronger than you assume.
Space each wedge 4–6° apart.
Stop when the highest loft is one you will actually use under pressure.

A worked example

Strong iron lofts, firm course: PW at 43°, then 48° mid bounce, 54° mid bounce, 58° low bounce with a relieved grind.

Standard lofts, soft course: PW at 46°, then 52° mid bounce, 56° high bounce, 60° mid to high.

Two wedges only: 52° and 58°, both mid bounce. Simple, effective, and it removes a decision from every approach.

Measure the carries

Once built, record carry at a full swing and at a controlled three-quarter swing for each wedge. That gives you six numbers rather than three, and the six are what you will actually use.

Write them down. Do not rely on your recollection of what a 54° carries — it is almost always optimistic.

Shafts matter here too

Wedge shafts should be at least as heavy as your iron shafts, and ideally a touch heavier. A light wedge shaft encourages a fast, loose transition that wrecks distance control.

This is the most commonly overlooked detail in an otherwise careful wedge fitting.

Replacement strategy

Replace your most-used wedge every second season and let the others run longer. Replacing all three at once wastes money on clubs that have barely been touched.

Buying tip: Buy your sand wedge and lob wedge with different bounces unless your course is uniformly soft. Matching them is convenient and rarely optimal.

Model names current as of September 2026.