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Cleveland 60 degree Wedge Question

• Spammage 694 Posts

  Thu, May 10 2012 3:07 PM

  Yankee Jim is probably right on the 3-wood at your tees.  I always dumped the 3-wood and carried the hybrid when at your level as the hybrid is a little more useful from the rough.  With your Burner 2.0 irons you could drop the 3-wood and carry 4 wedges but I might think that you should just swap the 52 for the 60.  The gap from the 125 to the 100 isn't that great when you think about the 125 pw punching at 108 and the 100 cg with full topspin at about the same yardage 107-108.

• Buckeye8084 307 Posts

  Thu, May 10 2012 4:11 PM

  DylynJ:

  Buckeye8084:

  Here are my distances

  52 - 115

  The Cleveland 52º hits 115 and punches 96... thus in my opinion eliminating the need for the Cleveland 56º.

  As previously mentioned the Cleveland 60º is a must have. I've holed a few eagles with it using topspin with basic b-xd balls (check my replays). You can hit it with full topspin from 80-87 yrds with any ball and if you've judged the elements correctly you'll be within a foot of the hole every time.. if not IN the hole!

  Yet as YJ warns about the spin on the spin balls the same warning applies here. Learn to use the Cleve's with topspin and no spin before you go anywhere near backspin.

  Cheers.

   

   

  Great point DylanJ. I just bought the G20 3 wd and love it. I was just getting ready to buy the 60 degree wedge. I'm going to write all the yardages down here to get a view if I should go 4 wedges or stick with 3. 

  PW - 125

  52 -115

  PW punch - 108

  56 - 100

  52 punch - 96

  56 punch - 84

  60 - 80

  60 punch 68

  64 - 60

  64 punch - 50

   

  *Edit - after looking at all these distances it does appear to 56 degree isn't really needed. Thanks everyone. 

   

• RUNWME 1,011 Posts

  Thu, May 10 2012 4:16 PM

  With r11 my clevelands 100  80 and 60yrd wedges . When bag the 2.0 irons   switch the 100 for the 115 wedge.

• Buckeye8084 307 Posts

  Thu, May 10 2012 4:33 PM

  So I ditched the 100 yard wedge and went with the 80 yarder. 

  I'm trying to decide if I'm going to pick up a hybrid. 

  Should I  go with the g20 to match my driver or the r11 which has the same speed as my wedges.

  I'm almost never out of the fairway with my g20 driver, but I like to play alternate shot and all my partners don't always put it in the short stuff. lol :P

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Thu, May 10 2012 5:59 PM

  Spammage:

  The gap from the 125 to the 100 isn't that great when you think about the 125 pw punching at 108 and the 100 cg with full topspin at about the same yardage 107-108.

  With the 115CG instead of the 100 though you don't have issues with 107-108 into the wind. (The PW punch rolls and you have to know how. The 115 lands and stops.) That gap becomes 125-115-96 (very chokeable punch) and the 80. 

  The 115CG is great for using with no spin at all. The trajectory is high and the rollout is small. The punch is very accurate from 96 down to the CG80 and when you're punching into high winds you get more control. 

  Dylyn's point about that 3w punch is an excellent one. Punching with top spin out of 40-50 gets some serious roll. Just make sure you aim it right because it's on the ground real fast, like in very little carry.

• Spammage 694 Posts

  Thu, May 10 2012 10:15 PM

  Agree about the hybrid - I wasn't suggesting that you pick up a hybrid now - your 3-iron has that distance covered anyway.  Save your $ for the R11s when you get to them.  When I was playing from your tees I was using the level 59s with a max iron distance of 210 so the 225 hybrid helped.

• RootsRo 419 Posts

  Fri, May 11 2012 12:15 AM

   I do not have any problem with the Gap between the burner 2.0 PW and the 100 yrd cleveland. I have to play from the legend tees and therefor i need my 3wd. My PW goes 127ish no spin, About 121 full BS, choked up about 5% i hit 115ish and choked up 10% about 106. I have no problem correcting for winds by adjusting the amount of T/B spin or punching.

  Basically any shot within 125 yrds is 1 putt.