Most golfers buying their second wedge assume the higher loft is the softer, more forgiving one. More loft, higher ball, easier out of sand. It sounds right.
On ours it is the other way around, and it is worth understanding why before you pick.
The short answer
Buy the 56 first. It plays more shots, it is more forgiving on the shots most golfers actually face, and it is the club you will reach for from sand.
Add the 60 when you are regularly short-sided, meaning the pin is close to your edge of the green and you have no room to run the ball up. If that is not happening to you often, the 60 will sit in your bag looking good and costing you a slot.
What the numbers are
| Loft | Bounce | |
|---|---|---|
| The sand wedge | 56 degrees | 12 |
| The lob wedge | 60 degrees | 8 |
The loft is the obvious difference and the least interesting one. Four degrees of loft is about ten to fifteen yards of carry for most players, which matters, but it is not what decides which club saves you shots.
The bounce is the part worth reading twice. The 56 has more bounce than the 60. Twelve against eight.
Why the higher lofted club has less bounce
Bounce is the angle that keeps the leading edge off the ground so the club skids instead of digging. More bounce means more protection against hitting it fat.
A 56 is a club you take a full swing at. Out of a bunker, out of thick rough, off a soft fairway after rain. Those are the lies where a leading edge digs in, the head slows down, and the ball goes nowhere. Twelve degrees of bounce is there to stop that happening.
A 60 is mostly a finesse club. You open the face, you slide it under the ball, and you are often playing off a tight lie where there is not much grass under the ball to begin with. High bounce works against you there, because the sole hits the ground first and the leading edge rides up into the middle of the ball. That is the bladed lob wedge that flies the green, and it is a club problem as often as a swing problem.
So the 56 is built to survive a heavy strike and the 60 is built to sit low and get under the ball. The numbers are doing what they should.
Both of them share the sole
Whichever you pick, the sole on the back is the same idea. It is cut open through the back of the head. Each channel is enlarged and its inside edges are rounded, so sand, wet grass and dirt move through and around the head instead of packing up behind it.
That matters more on the 56 than on the 60, because the 56 is the club spending its life in sand and soft ground.
Both heads are a 239 gram design weight, which is on the heavy side for a wedge. On slow swings through heavy stuff, mass is what carries the head through.
If you only buy one
The 56, and it is not close.
It handles greenside bunkers, standard chips, pitches from thirty to eighty yards, and shots out of rough where you need the club to keep moving. If you play once a week and you are not a single figure handicap, one 56 covers most of what happens to you inside a hundred yards.
The exception is if your course is genuinely firm all year, in which case twelve bounce can feel like a lot off tight lies and you may prefer the lower bounce club as your only wedge. That is a real preference, not a wrong answer.
When the 60 earns its place
Three situations, and you will recognise whether they are yours.
You are short-sided often. Pin tucked, four paces of green to work with, and you need the ball to stop fast. The 56 will not do that on demand. The 60 will.
You play soft, receptive greens. On a course where the ball checks anyway, the 60 gets less interesting. On firm greens it becomes the club that gets you close.
You already trust your 56 and want more. If the 56 is still producing chunked and bladed shots, a 60 will produce them faster. Get one club working first.
The gap between them
Four degrees, which is the interval most golfers end up happy with. You will carry them roughly ten to fifteen yards apart and you will not find yourself stuck between clubs.
The wider gap in this set is above them, not between them. Our pitching wedge is 45 degrees, so the step from 45 to 56 is eleven degrees. That is wider than the four to six most golfers like. It matters less than it looks if your own pitching wedge is already 45 or 46, because then the real step is from your iron set down to our 56. It matters more if you carry a 50 or a 52 today and expect us to replace it. We do not make one yet.
The fitting guide walks through how to work out your own gaps from the lofts already in your bag, which is the honest way to answer this rather than copying somebody else's set.
Two things you should know before buying
The wedge is not currently on the USGA conforming list. If you play in USGA-sanctioned competition, wait for us on that one.
Both are right handed only.
What they cost
A single is $129 in any loft. The Pair is the 56 and the 60 together at $229, which is the two club answer most golfers land on and saves $29 against buying them separately. The Scoring Set adds the 45 at $339.
Ships from Florida in one to two business days, $12 flat however many clubs are in the order, and you have 30 days to send it back.