TEST RESULT: WEDGES - August 2007

Rankmark’s "Best of the Best" Award

The test results were as follows (listed alphabetically by manufacturer) and each club listed received: Rankmark’s "Best of the Best" Award

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Cleveland CG12™
The CG12™ wedges combines classic design with advanced manufacturing processes. Grooves are milled to maximum conforming dimensions using a proprietary CNC mill bit to create envelope-stretching geometry.

CG12™

Titleist Vokey
Vokey Design 200 Series wedges feature a classic teardrop profile with a high toe and shallow heel. Available in pitching, gap and lob wedge models from 48 to 60 degrees, the 200 Series comes in two distinct finishes and a broad range of loft, sole and bounce configurations. Vokey Design 200 Series Tour Chrome™ wedges provide a classic chrome finish with a Tour-preferred, reduced glare satin appearance. Vokey Design 200 Series wedges with the Oil Can finish is cosmetically unique due to the hot oil oxide process that wears off over time, leaving a soft feeling wedge with a raw finish.

Vokey

Callaway X-Tour
Short-game scoring tools for more accomplished golfers looking for tour-proven precision in their wedges.
• Forged 1020 carbon steel
• Special PM (Phil Mickelson) gring and “Mack Daddy” grooves
• New enhanced shaping
• Eight different bounce/loft angle combinations

X-Tour

Ping Tour-W
The Tour-W wedge is designed for golfers seeking a high-performing, versatile option around the green and from the sand. Its machined face and grooves combine with a compact, tear-drop head shape to improve control from any lie. A tungsten toe weight and small Custom Tuning Port increase the moment-of-inertia for forgiveness while enhancing club head feel.

Tour-W

Innovex Type S
• Slightly Higher Center of Gravity and Minimal Offset. Helps deliver a more penetrating and controllable ball flight.
• Added Weight Mass Behind the Face. Enhances feel in the important scoring shots.
• Varying Bounce Angles. Offers options from all types of lies, from powdery sand to hard pan.
• Two-way Cambered Sole Design. Allows for ease of set up on awkward side hill lies and reduced drag through impact.
• Soft Grade A 431 Stainless Steel. Offers a solid feel for those touch shots and allows for adjustment of lie and loft.

Type S

Adams Tom Watson
A proven combination of performance and style. From shaping to sole grinds, every aspect of these wedges meets the demanding standards of eight-time Major winner and one of golf's greates wedge players - Tom Watson.


Tom Watson

Feel Dart Thrower Satin
These Tour Proven wedges with different finishes were designed by Tour players. Our wedges have won the US Amateur, PGA and LPGA Majors and tournaments worldwide.
Designed to escape from virtually any lie including deep divots, heavy rough and easy bunker play. Each wedge has the same Balance Point-Kick Point-Frequency-Swingweight-Total Weight, Length and above all the same 'feel' in any of our wedges. The only change in any of our wedges is the loft. All our wedges feel and play the same from our 46 degree to our new 73 degree. This makes wedge play much easier, repeatable and above all, simpler.

Dart Thrower Satin

Upswing Three Wedge Package Set
Gap Wedge
Our 52° gap wedge, provides just the right loft and bounce for those shots where a full swing will improve your accuracy. Upswing's gap is also great around the green for those short bump and run shots where you need to get the ball up over some rough or the fringe and run it close to the cup. All Upswing wedges come with a uniflex steel shaft.
Sand Wedge
Upswing's 56° sand wedge incorporates just the right sole design to help blast the ball out of hard or soft sand. Its large hitting area insures the confidence of a solid hit that will help you get it up and down more often. All Upswing wedges come with a uniflex steel shaft.
Lob Wedge
Upswing's 60° lob wedge delivers. After using the Upswing lob wedge you will discover the tour touch, feel and control you'll need to knock the pin down every time. You'll actually start looking forward to the challenge of what types of shots you can hit with the lob. All Upswing wedges come with a uniflex steel shaft.

Three Wedge Package Set

Nickent ARC
The first truly revolutionary change to a wedge in over 50 years, ARC Wedges feature a high-rebound elastomer inside the iron that works like a corked bat. ARC, or Accelerated Rebound Core®, is technology consisting of an internal core that positions the elastomer directly behind the strike zone, delivering a lively, solid reaction from the face to the ball and eliminating vibration. The elastomer weighs 7 times less than the steel surrounding it, creating an internal cavity. This internal cavity gives birth to muscle back wedges that have the look and feel of a blade, AND the playability and ease of use of a modern cavity back. ARC is the only patented hidden perimeter weighting system ever used in a wedge.

ARC

Nike SV Tour
The profile, bounce and groove contour of the SV Tour Wedges were derived from extensive feedback from our Nike Golf Tour staff members. The SV Tour Wedges have classic profiles and grinds which provide a clean look with maximum versatility. A CNC millied flat face provides consistent golf ball response off the club face for more accurate golf shots. These features provide the control, confidence and accuracy necessary for a solid short game.

SV Tour

Nicklaus Bear Trapper Utility Wedge
• Through Sole Technology
• Heavy Swing Balance
• Golden Bear All Weather Rubber Grip
• 56° Utility Wedge
• MRH, MLH

Bear Trapper Utility Wedge

Solus RD Series 4.1
The Solus wedges embody the first legitimate new technology for short game wedge play in the last 70 years - since Gene Sarazen developed the bounce sole contour to create the modern SAND wedge in 1931. In great contrast to the Sarazen sand wedge improvement (and its many variations in the marketplace today), Solus UTILITY wedge technology attacks the complete range of short game needs for golf from the ground up - specifically recognizing that the overwhelming majority of short game shots are NOT sand play, but they instead are a broad variety of shot-making situations played from different lies and surfaces - requiring different distances, trajectories, and ball spin rates.
Solus recognizes the situational demands for shots requiring different distances, trajectories, and ball spin rates and therefore offers multiple lofts for a complete short game utility wedge set.

RD Series 4.1

NOTE: All test results contain a 5% margin of error which could affect the final positioning of clubs.
 
   
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