2 wedges tie as the widest-ranging on record: Cleveland Smart Sole Full-Face Wedge and Cleveland Women's Smart Sole Full-Face Wedge, both across 22° of loft.
All 394 wedges with two or more lofts are ranked below, along with 7 more lists: narrowest loft range, most bounce, least bounce, most upright lie, flattest lie, longest, shortest.
Every wedge this site holds a spec table for, whatever year it launched, whoever made it and whoever it was built for. It is the widest field for the category and the least comparable one, which is why the cuts below it exist.
Each figure is ranked from both ends — strongest and weakest, most and least — over the same clubs, and each list counts only the clubs that publish that figure, so the totals differ between them. Loft, lie, offset and bounce are fitting specifications — a stronger loft is a longer-carrying club of the same name, not a better one, and neither end of any list here is the good end. How this is worked out.
Widest loft range
— the top 25 of 394 clubs with two or more lofts
Degrees between the highest and lowest loft the model is published in — how far the line stretches to fit different players. Measured over the lofts on record for the model; a model we hold in a single loft has an unmeasured span and is left off rather than recorded as zero. Putters are excluded, being sold at one loft.
Narrowest loft range
— the top 25 of 394 clubs with two or more lofts
Degrees between the highest and lowest loft the model is published in — how far the line stretches to fit different players. Measured over the lofts on record for the model; a model we hold in a single loft has an unmeasured span and is left off rather than recorded as zero. Putters are excluded, being sold at one loft.
Most bounce
— the top 25 of 278 clubs with a bounce angle
The highest published bounce angle across the model’s grinds, in degrees. Bounce is how the sole resists digging — a turf and sand fitting choice, matched to a player’s attack angle and their course’s conditions. More is not better; more is more.
Least bounce
— the top 25 of 278 clubs with a bounce angle
The highest published bounce angle across the model’s grinds, in degrees. Bounce is how the sole resists digging — a turf and sand fitting choice, matched to a player’s attack angle and their course’s conditions. More is not better; more is more.
Most upright lie
— the top 25 of 393 clubs with a lie angle
The published lie angle, measured from the ground. Irons are read at the 7-iron; every other category at the most upright figure the model publishes. PING quotes putter lie from vertical rather than horizontal, so those figures are converted onto the common scale before comparison and the club’s own page still shows the number PING published.
Flattest lie
— the top 25 of 393 clubs with a lie angle
The published lie angle, measured from the ground. Irons are read at the 7-iron; every other category at the most upright figure the model publishes. PING quotes putter lie from vertical rather than horizontal, so those figures are converted onto the common scale before comparison and the club’s own page still shows the number PING published.
Longest
— the top 25 of 407 clubs with a length
Published playing length in inches. Irons are read at the 7-iron, so a set starting at a 3-iron is not credited with length a set starting at a 5-iron never had; every other category is read at the longest club the model is published in.
Shortest
— the top 25 of 407 clubs with a length
Published playing length in inches. Irons are read at the 7-iron, so a set starting at a 3-iron is not credited with length a set starting at a 5-iron never had; every other category is read at the longest club the model is published in.
When they launched
Model year, where the record carries one — 128 of the 447 in this cut. A model year is when a club launched, not when it was designed or when it left the shops. Each year with enough clubs behind it links to that year's own boards.
| Model year | wedges | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 1 | 0.8% | |
| 2009 | 1 | 0.8% | |
| 2010 | 1 | 0.8% | |
| 2011 | 1 | 0.8% | |
| 2012 | 7 | 5.5% | |
| 2013 | 0 | 0.0% | |
| 2014 | 4 | 3.1% | |
| 2015 | 2 | 1.6% | |
| 2016 | 1 | 0.8% | |
| 2017 | 0 | 0.0% | |
| 2018 | 1 | 0.8% | |
| 2019 | 3 | 2.3% | |
| 2020 | 4 | 3.1% | |
| 2021 | 9 | 7.0% | |
| 2022 | 8 | 6.3% | |
| 2023 | 9 | 7.0% | |
| 2024 | 17 | 13.3% | |
| 2025 | 21 | 16.4% | |
| 2026 | 38 | 29.7% |
Who makes them
The 14 brands with the most, of 21 with at least one wedge on record. Each brand with its own boards links to them, where its line is ranked against itself and never against another maker's.
| Brand | wedges | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Callaway | 61 | 13.6% | |
| TaylorMade | 55 | 12.3% | |
| Cleveland | 44 | 9.8% | |
| Mizuno | 39 | 8.7% | |
| Titleist | 35 | 7.8% | |
| Tour Edge | 33 | 7.4% | |
| Vokey | 28 | 6.3% | |
| PING | 22 | 4.9% | |
| Wilson | 20 | 4.5% | |
| New Level | 18 | 4.0% | |
| Miura | 17 | 3.8% | |
| PXG | 16 | 3.6% | |
| Sub 70 | 15 | 3.4% | |
| Cobra | 13 | 2.9% |
7 more brands have at least one wedge on record and no board of their own — a brand needs 12 clubs publishing one figure before it gets one. Every one of them is in the club search.