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Cleveland vs Taylormade wedges

• Tomborg 33 Posts

  Mon, Jun 13 2016 9:22 PM

  Hi,

  Busy upgrading my kit, and wedges have come up as the first upgrade essential.

  I believe these 2 have come up as good recommendations:

  Cleveland 64° wedge (lvl 31) vs TaylorMade ATV 64° Wedge (Lvl 39)

  One of them being half the price - is double the price worth the investment for the future?

  Thanks,

  T

• SeabrookFlash 463 Posts

  Tue, Jun 14 2016 11:24 AM

  Hi again.  Cleveland wedge gives you 10 yards more distance, High trajectory, more forgiveness,slower meter.  You can probably use it until you reach the higher level Cleveland wedges. 

• alosso 21,072 Posts

  Tue, Jun 14 2016 1:58 PM

  Excuse me - 10 yds more means a bigger span to cover in short shots, thus lower power %%, thus less opportunities.

  With wedges, the criteria are different to irons.

  All clubs are most reliable when they are used with nearly 100% power. This is most important with the wedges, so you may look for best equidistant results, including the full shots and punches.

  One popular distribution is 60 - 80 - 100 yards for full shots, with extra punch distances in between. This is the "Cleve" distribution.

  Another (from ATV) is 50 - 75 - 100 yards, the punches being 41 - 62 - 81. I favour this one because the shorter ranges in the 64° club.

  Both are available in low level, what you asked for, and high level, around 75-80.

  The low Cleves may be good - I heard it recently but I have no experience. It comes down to the price you are willing to pay.

  Have fun!

• alanti 10,564 Posts

  Tue, Jun 14 2016 2:04 PM

  I agree with alosso on the ATV's but it must be seen in the overall picture.

  Choose what iron set you would ideally like and match in the wedges with those.

  At earlier stages I found a 50 wedge very useful and by punching a lot of shots, the little shots around the green worked better for me.

  The advantages of the Cleveland are forgiveness and a slower meter speed. It is also high trajectory potentially giving more stopping power, Whilst spin is rated the same, with the higher trajectory, you will need to learn the spin carefully.

  Both sets of wedges will last a long time if they are matched with your ideal iron set. If not, you will find yourself changing in the future,

• MrFunnyWobbl 894 Posts

  Tue, Jun 14 2016 3:56 PM

  Cleveland all the way. They stop great with FBS at lower level. High lev ones just stop without spin.

• Tomborg 33 Posts

  Tue, Jun 14 2016 6:43 PM

  thank you again for all your input.

  the Irons that have been recommended over and over again are: PING G25 Iron Set (L59+) - which I am planning to get once I get to that level.

   

• borntobesting 9,709 Posts

  Tue, Jun 14 2016 6:43 PM

  alosso:

  Excuse me - 10 yds more means a bigger span to cover in short shots, thus lower power %%, thus less opportunities.

  With wedges, the criteria are different to irons.

  All clubs are most reliable when they are used with nearly 100% power. This is most important with the wedges, so you may look for best equidistant results, including the full shots and punches.

  One popular distribution is 60 - 80 - 100 yards for full shots, with extra punch distances in between. This is the "Cleve" distribution.

  Another (from ATV) is 50 - 75 - 100 yards, the punches being 41 - 62 - 81. I favour this one because the shorter ranges in the 64° club.

  Both are available in low level, what you asked for, and high level, around 75-80.

  The low Cleves may be good - I heard it recently but I have no experience. It comes down to the price you are willing to pay.

  Have fun!

  If they were the Z-stains I might agree with you but the ATV's are no where near as accurate as they were. Plus the 25 yard gap is very poor. And you can't fill the gap with the punch near as easily as you can with the 20 yard gap of the Clevland wedges. 

• Robbo81303 417 Posts

  Tue, Jun 14 2016 7:03 PM

  As the OP is L54, I think it would be a disservice to not mention the L50-52 Max Spin wedges.  These wedges are sooooooo much more capable than either of the aforementioned sets - and notably less expensive than the Cleves - and should be compared with the best wedges in the game.  Certainly no wedge has more spin and, in my opinion, this attribute is invaluable  when pitching, flopping or punching shots.

  I don't understand why these wedges don't get more love here in the forums.  I'm seeing more and more high-level players using them so it can't be just me.  Give 'em a try!

• TracyMax 2,361 Posts

  Tue, Jun 14 2016 8:08 PM

  alosso:

  The low Cleves may be good - I heard it recently but I have no experience. It comes down to the price you are willing to pay.

  Have fun!

  Learning the spin on Clevlands takes a while, the back-up REAL EASILY! So start by putting NO spin and go from there. Now that I've had them a while they save me A LOT of strokes around the green. I still have the "lower" level Clev's and am happy with them.

   

• K7JBQ 1,468 Posts

  Tue, Jun 14 2016 11:06 PM

  Robbo81303:

  As the OP is L54, I think it would be a disservice to not mention the L50-52 Max Spin wedges.  These wedges are sooooooo much more capable than either of the aforementioned sets - and notably less expensive than the Cleves - and should be compared with the best wedges in the game.  Certainly no wedge has more spin and, in my opinion, this attribute is invaluable  when pitching, flopping or punching shots.

  I don't understand why these wedges don't get more love here in the forums.  I'm seeing more and more high-level players using them so it can't be just me.  Give 'em a try!

  Never used those, used strictly ATVs up to level 90, and was very happy with them...until I got the top level Max wedges. Less spin, but very accurate and not nearly as "touchy." Great wedges.