Dial In Your Short Game: A Guide to Wedge Gapping
Unlocking performance with proper golf club gapping is particularly important for your wedge game in and around the greens.
What is Gapping?
Gapping refers to the intervals between your shot distances with different clubs, and getting it right is one of the fastest ways to lower your scores without changing your swing.
How to Gap Your Wedges
Proper wedge gapping is about creating predictable carry distances through the scoring end of your bag. The goal is to avoid large distance gaps or unnecessary overlap between your irons and wedges, giving you a reliable full-swing option for more yardages.
Our Wedge Gapping Calculator uses your 8-iron and 9-iron carry distances to understand your natural iron progression, then factors in the highest-lofted club in your iron set and the carry distance of your highest-lofted wedge. From there, it identifies target scoring gaps and PXG wedge lofts to explore.
Enter your numbers below to build your wedge game plan. Use the recommendation as a starting point, then work with a PXG Fitting Specialist to dial in the exact lofts, grinds and carry distances for your game.
Find Your Wedge Gaps
Build more consistent distance gaps at the bottom of your bag. Tell us what you carry now and we'll recommend up to three PXG wedge lofts.
Start With Your Iron Set
Tell us the highest-lofted club from your iron set and how far you carry it.
Add these if you know them. They can help us understand your typical carry-distance gaps.
Tell Us About Your Wedges
If you already carry a high-lofted wedge, we'll use its carry distance to help build your ideal gaps.
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Your Wedge Gaps
Carry distance, delivery, course conditions and individual club design can influence your actual gaps. Use these recommendations as a starting point, then validate your numbers on a launch monitor or during a PXG fitting.
Why Wedge Gapping Matters
Gapping matters because golfers are limited to 14 clubs, and you want to cover a wide range of distances with minimal overlap. Proper gapping ensures no two clubs in your bag go the same distance, so every club earns its spot. The easiest way to adjust distance is with loft — changing loft by one degree generally changes carry distance by roughly two to three yards.
Once you know the gaps you need to fill, the next step is choosing golf wedges built to perform at those specific lofts and bounce configurations. PXG offers two forged wedge options - Stick'em Forged Wedges and Sugar Daddy III 100% Milled Wedges - designed to help you gap precisely and perform confidently from any lie.
PXG Stick'em Forged Wedges
PXG Stick'em Forged Wedges blend a clean, tour-inspired look with modern PXG performance technology. These forged wedges are built from three-times forged 8620 soft carbon steel, a process that refines the metal's grain structure with each forging stage, producing a soft, responsive feel at impact, a crisp sound, and grooves that hold their sharpness longer.
Stick'em wedges are available in 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, and 60-degree lofts in 2-degree increments, giving you the flexibility to gap your set exactly the way your carry distances demand. Two sole options let you match the wedge to your attack angle and turf conditions:
- S-Grind (10-degree bounce): A slightly tapered sole with heel and toe relief for high versatility across playing conditions and swing styles.
- BP-Grind (13-degree bounce): A wider, fuller sole that delivers the highest effective bounce, ideal for steeper attack angles and softer turf or sand.
Stick'em Forged Wedges also feature a universal face shape for confidence at address, high-toe weighting with progressive CG placement for more consistent trajectory on partial swings, and full-face grooves on the 54–60-degree lofts for expanded forgiveness on open-face and off-center strikes. They're available in Chrome or Xtreme Dark finishes, in both right- and left-handed configurations.
PXG Sugar Daddy III 100% Milled Wedges
PXG Sugar Daddy III 100% Milled Wedges are engineered for versatility, customization, and precision across every playing condition. Like Stick'em, they're three-times forged from 8620 soft carbon steel — but Sugar Daddy III goes a step further with 100% CNC milling, ensuring every line, curve, and angle is produced to exacting specifications for consistent performance shot after shot.
Available in 50 through 60-degree lofts in 2-degree increments, Sugar Daddy III wedges offer three sole designs so you can fine-tune both gapping and turf interaction:
- S-Grind: A classic head shape with a traditional tapered sole for square or open playability across most conditions.
- BP-Grind: A high-toe design with full-face grooves and a wider sole for lush turf, soft sand, or a steeper attack angle.
- C-Grind: A narrow sole with aggressive heel-to-toe taper for firm turf and creative shotmaking around the green.
A standout feature of Sugar Daddy III is Precision Weighting Technology — an adjustable weight near the center of gravity that a PXG Master Fitter can fine-tune in 2-gram increments during your fitting, so head weight is dialed in for your exact swing. Combined with full-face grooves on the 54–60-degree BP-Grind offerings, Sugar Daddy III wedges deliver serious spin and control whether you're hitting a full wedge shot or working a delicate shot around the green.
Get Custom Fit
Getting custom fit for PXG golf clubs helps ensure you have the right loft on every wedge in your bag. This includes having your wedges precision gapped by a PXG Fitting Specialist during a golf club fitting. The ability to fine-tune loft, bounce, sole grind, shaft, and grip to your individual swing helps you put together consistently better rounds and have more fun on the course - and with forged wedges like Stick'em and Sugar Daddy III, custom fitting is what unlocks their full potential.
Ready to get fit? Find a fitting location near you or explore PXG's full wedge lineup to start dialing in your own wedge specs.
