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LOL... Dude, that's good yardage. Wedges are not meant to hit super far. Those other guys that smash their wedges 800 miles are, like the one guy said, freakish distances.

Wedges are made for accuracy for short to mid length. You want distance get a longer iron out.

You're new with those wedges, and you're already hitting them farther than me. 60-70 yards for my Sand wedge is good for me.

Enjoy it all...

It's actually a disadvantage to hit your wedges that exceptionally long, as that means for someone like cnixon, he has to play a touch shot from anyplace closer than 125 yards. The normal player can still make a full swing right down to about 60-80 yards, depending on what wedges he carries. For a wedge, full swing is still only about a 3/4 normal swing if you're doing it right.

Think you misunderstood me, I didn't make myself clear

With thats it, I meant I only have those two wedges, meaning I need more because I have some gaps

Oh! LOL...

I thought you had a Gap Wedge too.

Maybe Im doing it wrong, because when I need 80-100 yards Im always thinking full swing with either Sand wedge or pw. My tempo is much smoother but my swing is almost the same as irons.

When I wan't to pitch the ball of course I don't use a full swing. Im not consistent with either PW or SW so maybe I need to shorten the swing.

Like fourputt said, the wedge swing is shorter than a full length iron. Wedges are a touch-n-feel thing. You need lots of control for better accuracy. So I do the half to 3/4 swing with the ball further back in my stance. That gets the ball up and out easier, and gets that spin you need to stop the ball on the green.

Distance is almost meaningless with wedges. Think of your wedges like darts. You never see a dart thrower toss one like a baseball pitcher. He throws it with a very abbreviated toss. Lots of touch and feel.

Ofcourse. But if I have 100 yards to the pin, what else than a PW can I hit? With my yardage thats either a full controlled pw or a pitch swing with the 9 iron. I understand that there should be a difference, but shouldn't the distance dictate your swing?

A Gap Wedge. If your PW is 46° and your SW is 56°, you need a GW that is approx. 50° for that in-between distance.

When you get good enough, you can take any wedge and play it many ways. There's opening the face, shortening the grip, and various back swings that you can control various distances with. That's why I don't have or play a Lob wedge. I'll use my Gap or Sand and open the face up and grip down some if I need a high but short shot.

PW 135
GW 120
SW 105
LW 90

I hit a 7 iron bump and run the other day from 100...100 yds with the pitch is fine...saw a silly season golf program skills contest on tv last year where pro athletes from various sports were competing with professional golfers...Dan Marino (ex pro American footballer) hit a gap or sand wedge to the 110yd target, swinging hard and spinning the ball back hard, ending 30 ft from the hole...Trevor Immelman hit a pw, landed with no spin and stopped where he aimed it next to the hole...

Bump and run, I have to tell you about a shot I pulled of today, your gonna love it!

I was facing a difficult second shot on a par 4. It was a dogleg left but the thing is that from where my ball was, I was facing a blind approach to the green. Not only that, part from the fact that the green was blind the direct line to the green is blocked by several trees.

Most guys would just pitch the ball down the slope, because the course slopes towards the left and severely down hill. Its really hard to explain but I basically had two options to make the green.
Either hit a 9 iron directly at the green blindly towards the green and pray to the good lord that the ball doesn't catch the trees and that the ball is not of line and not to long/too short. Since the height difference from where I was standing to the green is about 25 yards atleast its very hard to judge.

Second options is to slice it severely around the trees and on to the green. I have tried that option before and although a slice/fade is my natural shot I rarely pull it of.

I chose in the good spirit of mr bump and run exactly that. I didn't tell my playing buddies but I picked out a 5 iron from the bag, smiled to myself and thought I was going to chip the ball over the mountain/rocks that blocks the downhill passage and let the ball roll down the slope and on to the green.

It worked like a charm. I chipped kinda hard with the 5 iron, the ball cleared the rocks with about a feet (little lucky I know :P) and rolled all the way down to the green and stopped 4 inches outside the green and 3 yards from the pin.

The guy I was playing with hit a PW from a better postion (he could see the flag and had no obstacles in front of him), he made the green but the green is hard as a rock and it bounced off.

He didn't wan't to give me any credit.. He is a 14 hcp and Im a 26 and he has atleast played for 12 years and was once a single digit. I actually think Im gonna played that whole that way, because it rolls so good down that slope and the green is way to hard to make the ball stay there, unless you hit a SW and hit the good parts of the green. It almost like concrete because its so bad.

BUMP AND RUN FOR THE WIN

On average...
52* Cleveland CG14 Black Pearl - 115
56* Nike SV - 100
60* Titleist Vokey Spin Milled - 80ish

That's what I'm talking about!!! There is more than one way to skin a cat...keep it up!

Bumb: Maybe thats what Bagger Vance is talking about with seeing the field? "There's only one shot thats in perfect harmony with the field "

PW- 155
52 - 140
56 - 125