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Originally Posted by alangbaker
...If you only have limited time to practice, then getting really familiar with one wedge is almost certainly a better idea that being minimally familar with 3 or 4.
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That's an excellent way of putting it!
And that's exactly how I've felt walking around with three wedges. Like I said, back in the day, all I ever had was a sand wedge and that was it and I was so familiar with that club that I could do almost anything with it.
The ultra-fluffy lie or unusually soft sand was a problem even back then, but I don't recall a situation where it was so much of a problem that I wished I'd had a different wedge. The pro's bomb it so far off the tee that they usually only have a wedge shot left to get to the pin, so having a variety of wedges may make sense for them.
But my driving game is pretty much what it always was (just straighter with the new equipment) and I can occasionally crank a few out past 300 but for the most part I'm in the 270 - 280 range (with the roll) so I have never really had a "bomb" game to begin with so my average second shot is rarely just a wedge anyway.
In my "One Wedge" days I played to a low single digit handicap (as low as 2) and if it worked then, there shouldn't be any reason why it wouldn't work now considering that most of the rest of my game is essentially the same as it was back then.
-JP