Thanks to making two cracking wedge families (MG3 and Hi-Toe 3) TaylorMade give our best golf wedges test team a really tough choice to make. Read our full Titleist Vokey SM9 wedge review. Just make sure you get a proper fitting, with decent golf balls, when you do so. There’s also an absolute ton of options to go at.Īt 9,367 rpm the model produced 319 rpm more spin than our test average (8th highest) but also hit shots into a 104 sq yds area, that’s 50% bigger than our average.Īt this price, if you’re buying Vokey wedges in 2023, we’d seriously recommend committing to a full family and cover off all your needs in one hit. We found the SM9 wedges to be a lovely shape, and they feel really great. Just like Cleveland wedges, Vokey have never quite been top performers in terms of spin on our test spreadsheets down the year.īut the game is not played on spreadsheets so don’t let that put you off. As lovely as all three products are the decision to play them often comes down to trust, reputation, and perception, rather than real tangible performance gains. Vokey wedges, like Titleist’s Scotty Cameron putters and Pro V1 balls, are the go-to choice for many decent players. Read our full Cleveland CBX ZipCore wedge review. The model also hit shots into a 30.6 sq yds area during testing, which is 56% smaller than our test average. Impressive. The lightweight compound inside the heel helps up forgiveness and, as you’d expect from such a renowned golf wedges brand, you get plenty of loft and custom build options too.Īll in all, this is a lovely shape wedge and an intelligent choice for lots of club golfers. The CBX is a great-looking and feeling model. Our test data doesn’t instantly highlight the CBX as our pro’s top-performing model, but it’s worth remembering the wider sole and slightly higher bounce, which impeded his typical strike, are just the attributes that will help club golfers neutralize the effects of off-center hits and less perfect strikes. And, if you struggle to get your head around cavity-back wedges, Cleveland also have the brilliant RTX-6 tour-level option, which demonstrates the company’s commitment to getting the best-performing wedges in every golfer’s hands. The award-winning CBX and the new 13% bigger CBX Full-Face 2, which we’d thoroughly recommend if you can accept the full-face grooves and/or your short-game confidence is at an all-time low.

If you’re looking at buying new wedges, start by asking yourself, can I accept cavity back models? If you can then your short game and bunker play will thank you for it.Ĭleveland CBX are as good as cavity back wedges can get, and this year there are two models to consider. We’ve been preaching for several years that golfers who use cavity-back irons should be using cavity-back wedges, and our thinking hasn’t changed for 2023.

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