This article is about golf equipment. For a wedge as feature of periglacial environment, see ice wedge.
Not to be confused with Sandwich.
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A golfer uses a sand wedge to hit the ball from a green-side bunker.
A sand wedge, or sand iron, is a type of golf club, an open-faced wedge primarily designed for getting out of sand bunkers.[1] It has the widest sole of any wedge, which provides the greatest amount of bounce, allowing the club head to glide through sand and avoid digging in. After Gene Sarazen had success in 1932 with a new club that he had invented for sand play, its popularity quickly grew. The club can be advantageous in other soft lies—such as thick rough, soggy ground, or mud—and is also used from firmer grass lies for lobs or chips.
^HORII, Hirosuke; KOIZUMI, Takayuki; TSUJIUCHI, Nobutaka; MIKI, Mitsunori; HIDAKA, Jusuke; YAMAMOTO, Akio (2004). "Assessment of Sand Wedge Shape Properties by Particle Element Method". The Proceedings of Joint Symposium: Symposium on Sports Engineering, Symposium on Human Dynamics. 2004: 156–161. doi:10.1299/jsmesports.2004.0_156. ISSN 2433-1309.
A sandwedge, or sand iron, is a type of golf club, an open-faced wedge primarily designed for getting out of sand bunkers. It has the widest sole of any...
longer trajectory than a sandwedge. The name derives from the club's design to fill the "gap" between sand and pitching wedges. Over time the loft angle...
necessary. Lob wedges are one of the newest additions to the modern collection of golf clubs and, along with the sandwedge and gap wedge, were not included...
utilized this wedge design and technique, and the same club design and method are also used by amateur players around the world. The sandwedge also began...
wedge, typically 52–54°), sandwedge (SW, 55–56°), lob wedge (LW, 58°–60°), and ultra lob wedge (sometimes called the "flop wedge" or FW, 64°–68°). Hybrids...
pitching wedge". The Complete Guide to Golf. Maco Magazine Corporation. 1955. p 78. Curtis Strange with Kenneth Van Kampen. "SandWedge vs Pitching Wedge". Win...
known as ice wedge polygons. The cracks can also be filled with materials other than ice, especially sand, and are then called sandwedges. There are many...
refer to a bunker as a sand trap. Sandwedge A lofted club designed especially for playing out of a bunker. The modern sandwedge was invented by Gene Sarazen...
through sand. Sarazen welded a piece of steel to the sole of the club and ground it producing 'bounce'. This marked the introduction of the sandwedge and...
was also known for a very creative short game, pioneering use of the sandwedge for short shots from grass. As he aged, he began to experiment with different...
Meroles cuneirostris, the wedge-snouted sand lizard or wedge-snouted desert lizard, is a species of sand-dwelling lizard in the family Lacertidae. It occurs...
escape potential predators, such as the Saharan Sand Viper (Cerastes vipera) This skink has a long, wedge-shaped snout with a countersunk lower jaw, shaped...
Rockne's death, the company focused on golf, introducing the R-90, a sandwedge golf club inspired by Gene Sarazen's victory in the 1932 British Open...
game is very similar to golf; however, it uses fewer clubs (i.e. sandwedge, pitching wedge, and nine iron). The balls are wiffleballs that are often covered...
Alessandro; Arens, Felix L.; Schulze-Makuch, Dirk (2021-01-15). "New type of sandwedge polygons in the salt cemented soils of the hyper-arid Atacama Desert"...
pitching wedge, sandwedge, and putter. Modern sets commonly include hybrids, often replacing the longer irons and 5-wood, and/or additional wedges such as...
groomed. Morris used the rut iron (a lofted club similar to the modern sandwedge) as a pitching club for short approaches, hitting high shots over hazards...
shot" is a shot played with a high lofted club, a lob wedge, sandwedge, gap wedge, or pitching wedge, with lofts ranging from 49° to 62°. These high lofted...
began on the 18th hole. Couples laid up with a wedge and nearly holed his third shot with a sandwedge; he sank the one-foot (0.3 m) putt for birdie to...
birdie putt. On his third shot, Mize holed a memorable chip shot with a sandwedge from around 140 feet, giving him the birdie. Norman now had an opportunity...
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