Its a question most golfers ask about all there golf clubs. For the average golfer it can be tricky to know, and wedges are no different.
Of course the life span of a wedge will depend on numerous things, such as how often you play, typical playing conditions you use it in, etc. Therefore, the answer will differ from golfer to golfer.
Here’s our advice on how often you should change your wedges.
To Gove the straight answer, I’d say for most people they would probably be on a similar life-cycle to irons – about two and a half to three years.
There’s never really been any definitive guidelines on when you should change your equipment.
Often new purchases are made in a bid to start hitting more fairways or to get a bit more consistency with iron play.
But they are not based on any particular deterioration of the current equipment – some people just love spending money on golf equipment.
And there’s nothing wrong with that. If golf is your thing why not treat yourself every now and then?
But it would be good to know when your equipment stops performing as well as it should.
We all get our cars serviced after a certain number of miles.
With wedges I guess we can think of the grooves a little bit like the tyres on our cars. When the tyres get worn, the stopping distances increase.
It’s exactly the same for wedges…
How did the Vokey Wedges team carry out the test?
Using a wedge robot at their Manchester Lane testing facilities in Acushnet, Massachusetts, the Titleist Vokey team used three different SM6 wedges for an experiment.
