Best Wedges in 2025 for every handicap, budget and playing style
Collectively, wedges are the most versatile clubs in your bag and are put to use in the broadest variety of situations. From the fairway, you often make full swings with your pitching wedge and gap wedge, but you might also use those clubs when you need a low, running chip shot around the green. From greenside bunkers, golfers rely on sand wedges and lob wedges, depending on how high and far they need to hit their shot, but those clubs might also be used from the fairway or the rough when you need to pitch the ball, and players reach for them when they face awkward lies and other situations around the green.
Because wedges need to do so many different things, manufacturers spend a lot of time and energy creating wedges with different lofts, sole grind configurations and playing attributes. However, that can lead to confusion for golfers who don't understand concepts like bounce, camber and distance gapping.
To make it easier to find your ideal combination and type of wedges, several manufacturers have developed online fitting tools. With just a few clicks, these systems can provide you with club, loft and sole grind recommendations.
- Callaway Wedge Selector
- Cleveland Wedge Selector
- Ping Web Wedge
- TaylorMade Wedge Selector
- Titleist Vokey Design Wedge Selector.
The wedges you will see below are many of the best and most-popular offerings for 2025, but the list is just intended to act as an educational starting point. As always, the best way to discover your ideal wedges is to work with a custom fitter who can evaluate your performance with several different wedges and who knows the courses where you play most often.
Callaway Opus
Price: $179.99 (Opus), $229.99 (Opus Platinum), with True Temper Dynamic Gold Mid 115 Wedge shafts and Golf Pride Tour Velvet 360 grips
Specs: Cast stainless steel with four sole grind options and lofts from 48 to 60 degrees (Opus). Cast stainless steel with internal tungsten weight, two sole grind options and lofts from 54 to 60 degrees (Opus Platinum).
Who it's for: Golfers who want to maximize spin and shortgame versatility.
What you should know: The Opus wedges have a redesigned shape that was driven by feedback from tour pros and feature a new face treatment that enhances friction and surface roughness to complement the grooves and boost spin. The Opus Platinum wedges are metal injection molded and have a 17-gram piece of tungsten bonded to the topline that elevates the center of gravity location and should help golfers create low-launching shots.
Cobra King
Price: $169 each (Satin Chrome and Dark Finish), with True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue Spinner shafts and Lamkin Crossline grips; $189 (Raw)
Specs: Metal injection molded steel. Even lofts from 48 to 60 degrees in four sole grinds.
Who it’s for: Golfers who want a soft feel and enhanced spin around the greens, along with the versatility to handle different lies and course conditions.
What you should know: Cobra uses metal injection molding to enhance the consistency and feel of its wedges while offering new sole grinds, different center of gravity locations, and different grooves based on each club’s loft. Read the full review.
Cleveland RTZ
Price: $169.99 each with True Temper Dynamic Gold Spinner shaft and Golf Pride Tour Velvet grip (Tour Satin); $189.99 with True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 shafts (Tour Rack)
Specs: Cast Z-Alloy with satin or black PVD finish. Even lofts from 46 to 64 degrees in four sole configurations.
Who it’s for: Golfers who want to maximize spin and control around the greens and replace their wedges less often.
What you should know: Cleveland developed a completely new metal alloy specifically for its newest wedges. The material provides an enhanced feel, helps the grooves stay sharp longer and does not rust, which means the RTZ wedges should deliver like-new levels of spin and performance for a longer time. Read the full review.
Mizuno Pro T1, T3
Price: $180 each with True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 shafts and MCC grips (T1); KBS Hi-Rev 2.0 shaft (T3). Finishes: (T1) Blue, Black and White Satin; (T3) White Satin
Specs: Forged 1025E mild carbon steel. Six sole grind options and lofts from 46 to 60 degrees.
Who they're for: Golfers who want the most feel and spin-generating control around the greens.
What you should know: The Mizuno Pro T1 is a classic, teardrop-shape wedge with a muscleback look, while the T3 is slightly larger and has been made with a shallow cavity-back design to give it more perimeter weighting and slightly more forgiveness. The T3 also has a slightly wider sole and slightly more offset to add to its heightened level of forgiveness. Read the full review.
PXG Sugar Daddy III
Price: $299.99 in Chrome, $349.99 in Xtreme Dark
Specs: Forged and milled 8620 carbon steel available in three sole grinds and even lofts from 50 to 60 degrees
Who It's For: Deep-pocketed golfers who want more spin and versatility around the greens.
What you should know: By adding more grooves to the hitting area and offering the Sugar Daddy 3 wedges in three different sole configurations, PXG is trying to help golfers generate more spin and effectively hit a wider variety of shots. Read the full review.
Ping s159
Price: $197 each with Z-Z115 steel shafts and Dylawedge grips. $212 each with Alta CB Black graphite shaft.
Specs: Cast 8620 carbon stainless steel with water-repellant coating and vibration-absorbing polymer. Available in even lofts from 46 to 62 degrees in Chrome and Midnight finishes.
Who It's For: Golfers who want variety around the green and spin retention in wet conditions.
What you should know: Taking feedback from PGA Tour players, Ping adjusted the look of its wedges while updating their spin-producing qualities, especially in wet conditions, to help golfers maintain control and feel around the greens. Read the full review.
TaylorMade MG4
Price: $179.99 each with True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue 115 Wedge shaft and Lamkin Crossline 360 grip.
Specs: Cast 8620 carbon steel with a raw-steel hitting area and seven different milled sole grinds. Even lofts from 46 degrees to 60 degrees.
Who It's For: Golfers who want more short-game spin, especially in wet conditions, along with several sole grind options.
What you should know: TaylorMade designed a new surface-roughening pattern to the raw steel face of the MG4 wedges to help golfers create more spin, especially in wet conditions. That spin, combined with more sole grind options, should create more short-game versatility for golfers. Read the full review.
Titleist SM10
Price: $189 each
Specs: Cast 8620 carbon steel stainless steel. Even lofts from 46 to 62 degrees, six sole grinds and three finishes.
Who It's For: Golfers who want to maximize spin and versatility around the green while enhancing feel.
What you should know: While tricky lies, rough and sand can make it difficult to make solid contact, Titleist's wedge team feels that the ideal hitting area is in the center of the face, between the second and fifth groove up from the leading edge. To help golfers find that spot more often, Titleist offers the Vokey Design SM10 wedges in six sole grind options so players can work through the turf effectively. Read the full review.
Wilson Staff Model ZM
Price: $149.99 each with True Temper Dynamic Gold Spinner stock shaft and a Golf Pride Tour Velvet grips
Specs: Forged 8620 carbon steel with face-roughening treatment. Even lofts from 50 degrees to 60 degrees, with 46, 48 and 64-degree versions available through custom order.
Who it’s For: Golfers who love the look and feel of a traditional wedge with enhanced spin generation.
What you should know: Forged from 8620 carbon steel for a soft feel at impact, the Staff Model ZM wedges have a straighter leading edge and gentle heel relief so golfers can open the face and get the leading edge under the ball when chipping and pitching from a tight lie. Right the full review.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Best Wedges in 2025 for every handicap, budget and playing style
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