I Bought A 72 DEGREE Lofted Wedge From Amazon!

Ball was in the air over 5 secs to travel 35 yds you COULD actually hit the full shot and run and catch it 😂😂

I don't believe short of the thing being a knife you could get more than 72° and still have a sole on the thing 😂😂

20 yards off the green, the level of golfer that would buy this takes a full swing, thins it, ends up with a 7 iron next shot!

I owwn one, and its saved me countless times

as an amiture golfer my self i love my 72 over my 60 from 30 yards in it has shaved 10 strokes off my game!

its a club specifically for pitching not chipping,

Tbh I don’t think it’s that bad for a 3rd wedge. Really good for downhill chips near the green, especially tight lies. I use my 60 for most everything near the green tho

I love this club. When I hit it full with some de-lofting relative to my normal swing It will go 50 metres with a very steep down angle on landing. It holds a green like nothing else. I like it best from wet bunkers and tough lies around greens. I work the ball with this club from 40 metres in. This is a phenomenal club. Like any club you need to practice. I needed to add 2 inches in club length and 2 deg up in lie to suit my swing.(6'2" tall ,wide shoulders long legs and short arms.) I love the club and I play it in local comps all the time.

I have a 64 degree Cleveland cbx which I use for the same reasons, flop shots and bunker shots without setup changes and, I'm not kidding, I must use it once every 5 rounds if I'm lucky. You need this type of club so infrequently it's almost redundant, BUT when you shortside yourself behind a tree it makes you look like Phil Mickelson 😂 great video Matt 👍

Gary Player, in one of his videos advises golfers not to use high lofted clubs around the greens.
He says " Keep it low to be in the dough,hit it high, it'll make you cry ! "

I don't agree that it's pointless for full shots.... Imagine you shank a shot 40 yards right of the green on a par 3 and you have a bunch of trees and a bunker between you and the green... You can't play a chip and run under the trees, so your only options are to bail out back to the fairway or go over the trees. Normally, I would lay a wedge flat and attempt to flop over them in that scenario, probably thinning it and smashing the windows of the house on the other side of the green, but with this thing, you could address the ball normally, hit a full shot and tap in for par. Having said that, there must be a reason Titleist, TaylorMade et al don't make 72-degree wedges...

A 40 yard flop shot can be a deadly weapon.

All this is an opened face 60 degree wedge for people that don’t know how to play a 60 deg wedge with open face :)

I disagree with you, Matt. You kept saying you have to have the right mindset to use this club, but you, yourself, never got to the right mindset. It sounded like you were thinking of this club as an addition to your 60-degree wedge. In my mind, it's not. It's a 60-degree replacement. In my bag, the 60-degree is a speciality club. Used rarely and only when I need to get the ball up fast (usually over something), and to get it to stop fast. For regular chipping and pitching, I'm using my 56-degree. The 72-degree, for my game anyway, sounds like a great club to replace my 60-degree. It would make the speciality shots even easier. My experience with most amateur golfers is they can't execute anything less than a full shot, so having a club were they can swing full from 35-yards out or in a bunker would, probably, help most of them. At the very least, I think it might help me, so I may give it a try. :)

Open the face! Last year I frequently fooled with a thick soled Lazrus 65 degree from the sand. It made the ball rise from the dead…on occasion. Pulled it out of a box in the garage last week for use on the chipping green trying to hit the ball out of deep rough. Bladed a shot off the clubhouse roof and acted like nothing happened after an employee picked up the bounding ball in the parking lot. Yep, stick with the 54.

I think your commitment is the problem to be honest,all the shots you hit looked pretty good especially for the sand and flops..I would try it out for sure

Another great video Mat of unusual clubs.. Well done..

I've got a 73 degree wedge. Legendary club.

I might suggest that the 72 degree wedge could be a training aid for new glasses golfers learning to hit out of bunkers!

Long ago, when I was building myself a bag, I bought a wedge set from Bombtech Golf; it came with a 52, a 56, and a 60, and as bonus, they threw in a 72. I took it to the range just to see what it was like, and it scared me! At the range, it felt like, with every swing, the ball was going to hit me in the face (just as you thought)- the ball seemed like it was coming straight up! Needless to say, it never made the bag. That said, as manufacturers make irons stronger and stronger, it makes sense that people add wedges to the bottom end of the bag.

I had a 64-degree wedge at one time, but felt it was totally unnecessary and was just taking up space in my bag. A slightly open-faced 60 degree wedge just seemed to work better out of any situation I would have used the 64 degree for.

or just open a 60 to 72 😂

Could definitely be handy for getting out of tree trouble.

I bought a lob wedge and definitely over use it but it's really helped me get closer to the flag 🎉

See no reason for this club. Agree the issue for most amateurs is commitment on chips and bunker shots. Have to be even more committed if you are using that degree of loft. Heck, most mid handicap or higher golfers have issues with a 60 degree lob wedge. A gimmick club to be sure.

Matt saying he's "OK at golf" reminds me how bad I am 😂

I bought the 62 degree version of this club from Temu, with discounts I paid about £9 for it. I love it👌

Not sure I want another little flopper to be honest Matt 😂

Would imagine this could really help higher handicappers who struggle with their bunker play. Great video!

Did I hear correctly did Matt actually say "sexy cumshot" at one point ?

Great video Matt, keep em coming!

Maybe you're a big hitter and put it down to 50 yards away

Great review Matt. I'm useless from 30 to 50 yds it could be ideal for me

I wouldn't like to see someone thin it with a full swing. Too dangerous!!!

Seems like it does exactly what it says on the tin!

I've got a 72 in my bag. I put it in as a joke, but it's came in handy a couple times. If you use it on an uphill slope around a green does almost hit you lol.

I have been playing this wedge for 6 weeks now. The advantage: You can play out of all bunkers without having to change your swing. I keep the wedge in the bag.

85% of the time bunkers at the 3 golf courses I play are not raked on a daily basis. Most lies are from firm sand, and 1/2 the time it is wet firm sand.

A friend of mine has a 76º wedge that he uses for almost every shot around the greens. It's an absolute bloodbath. Takes a full swing with it from wherever he is and tries to fly it to the hole. Doesn't matter what kind of lie he has or how much green he has to work with - nope - full Phil every time. Needless to say, it does not work. Most often he thins it 50 yards past the green. The other option is he hits down on it, catches it super fat, and chunks half of the golf course onto the green while the ball moves about three feet. And then he refuses to clean all the grass and dirt off the green.

I say friend...he's really more of an acquaintance.

It's the same problem that 99% of amateurs have with a 60º wedge, only greatly magnified. The average golfer shouldn't be allowed anything higher than 52º.

No one who isn’t playing tour level speed greens shouldn’t be chipping with their lob wedge! Keep it low to the ground!

Hmmmm I think I need a 80* hahaha! gGod stuff Matt

Considering my own experiences with the 60-degree, how far do you think you could thin the 72-degree? I can send my Alien well beyond 100 yards.

Comical simply comical

72 degrees? I've never wanted to hit a golf ball up my own nose, but it's nice to know the option is available if I need it! 🙂

I was gifted a 65 degree wedge. I've taken it out a few times, but it isn't as versatile as my 55 degree. The 55 I can hit from 80 yards out as well as from the sand, but the 65 is limited to about 45 yards. Yes it's easier to hit from bunkers, but I'd prefer full shots from within 100 yards, not 3/4 swings with a PW.

Yeah at my level of skill I'd thin it and it's gone. At least a lower loft lower swing speed I get a bit less risk - degreening it rather than de-golf coursing it.

I have several silly clubs like this, I play around with them in the back yard, what's weird is that they make it easier to play my "normal" wedges (50, 54, 60) it makes u appreciate the bounce and weight of premium wedges Great video!!!

I bet I'm not the first to automatically think, I'd love to see Mr Shiels use this

this was just fun to watch