Dan Blocker, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts and Michael Landon, members of the Cartwright family in âBonanza.â Credit NBC.
By Steve Silverman. An approach wedge is used by golfers when a pitching wedge is too much club on the golfer's approach to the green. Less than 20 years ago, golfers had a pitching wedge and a sand wedge in their golf bags.
Golf Wedges. Rather than lightly swinging a pitching wedge or over-swinging a sand wedge, the gap wedge covers the difference in degrees and distance between those two. Lofted between 50Â° and 54Â°, the gap wedge allows you to perform your normal swing when you're between 80 and 100 yards away from the pin.