Ping · Wedge · 2022
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CaddyIndex™ breakdown: what our research found across each of the six performance dimensions, with cited sources.
You chunk and thin chips and want a confidence club you can swing like a putter for reliable chip-and-run from the fringe and greenside rough.
You need to fly the ball high and stop it quickly, or you want a versatile wedge for varied shots - this is a one-shot chip-and-run tool.
Pros
- Eliminates chunked and thinned chips - perimeter-weighted stainless gives a lot of forgiveness
- Played with a putting-style stroke - reliable, confidence-building distance control
- Outstanding from the fringe and greenside rough, with milled grooves for grab
- Up to 30% short-game improvement versus normal wedges
Cons
- Chip-and-run only - won't stop quickly over a bunker or onto a tight green
- A single 38.5° loft played with a putting stroke - no flighted or shaped shots
- Takes a bag slot a more versatile wedge could fill
By dimension
Forgiveness
Outstanding - it exists to kill bad chips, with an investment-cast 431 stainless head perimeter-weighted for a lot of forgiveness on off-center strikes, eliminating chunking and thinning, for confidence and consistency from awkward greenside lies. Among the most forgiving short-game clubs made.
Distance
Its strong suit - the putter-style stroke makes distance control easier and more reliable than hitting long putts from off the green, with the ball getting moving forward very consistently from the fringe. Excellent repeatable distance within its chip-and-run niche.
Workability
Minimal by design - the chip-and-run trajectory means you can't expect to stop the ball quickly over a bunker or onto a tight green, the single 38.5-degree loft and putting stroke making it a one-shot tool, not a shot-shaper. Deliberately a single-trajectory club.
Feel
Soft and dampened - a soft feel off the face with a composite cavity badge that dampens vibration and prevents shock on off-center strikes, the club feeling nice through impact. Pleasant and forgiving, if not a milled-wedge sensation.
Sound
Crisp and pleasing - a crisp, pleasing sound at impact, with clean turf interaction and a satisfying strike. A clean, confidence-inspiring acoustic for a chipping club.
Looks at address
Functional and confidence-inspiring - the iron-meets-putter profile with a more vertical shaft and putter-like lie, a clean, simple head that inspires confidence over the ball. A purposeful specialist look rather than a sleek wedge.
Sources
Some of the reviews, lab tests and head-to-head comparisons we read while grading this club.