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.
Pitching wedges have a loft of between 46 and 48 degrees. Approach wedges have lofts between 50 and 52 degrees. The extra loft on the approach wedge helps it to get up in the air, but decreases the distance hit.