Hi, this is Dwayne Dusky from Portland, Oregon, and I play at Glendibir East and West

Courses in Portland.

This is Golf Smarter number 486, published on April 28, 2015.

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If we're talking a distance wedge, which I would define as between 40 yards and maybe your

full swing or your pitching wedge, so let's say 125 or whatever, you don't want a bigger gap

than about 20 yards in there. So if I hit my pitching wedge 125, the next club, I need to hit at least

95 yards. And if I can get those nice even spread like that,

you can really learn to cover any yard inch with appropriate spin and trajectory. The second would be

the bounce options and the sole grind, the shape of the wedge. You want to have a sand wedge

with a lot of bounce on it. Bounce is the difference between the bottom, back of the club on the sole to the leading edge in degrees.

Good sand wedge might have between 10 and 14 or 15 degrees of bounce on it.

If you have a more lofted club, like a 58, 59, or 60, you want that one to be low in balance, so probably between four and seven,

depending once again on your standard technique. With the techniques that I try and get people

to use, you don't need much bounce because the swing is very shallow and you use it as you swing.

If that's the case, and you have a high-balanced sand wedge and a low- bounce lob wedge,

then you're really prepared for any turf condition.

Because when the sand or grass is soft, the ball comes out slow and more bounce is better than less.

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