Not everyone can drive the ball 300 yards, or flush irons close to the hole with consistency. But everyone can own a good short game, and with the skills learnt in this magazine, the wedges featured over the following pages will help that cause.
Here are the latest and greatest short game tools on the market, plus some fitting guidance from the two biggest names in wedge design and the most influential models made.
CALLAWAY JAWS RAW
Callaway’s wedges have the distinct advantage of legendary designer Roger Cleveland heading up the category for the brand, the new Jaws Raw are no different.
Featuring what Callaway calls “the most aggressive grooves in golf”,” the Jaws Raw has a face, that as the name suggests, is without a plating to add more spin and uses tungsten for the first time in the wedge for optimal balance, feel and control.
Offered in 17 loft/bounce options in both Black Plasma and Chrome finishes, the Jaws Raw have grooves with sharper edges for stopping power, as well as ‘Offset Groove-in-Groove’ technology that places milled micro-grooves on an angle for more spin on partial shots.
CALLAWAY JAWS RAW FULL TOE
Take the above performance and add more face area and grooves covering the entirety of the face and you get Jaws Raw Full Toe.
The shaping combines with a specially designed J-Grind to make short shots around the green easy to hit, especially bunker shots and high