In a market that is absolutely flooded with choice right now, which is a good thing I reckon. There's plenty out there for you to choose from, a wedge is a major part of the gain, and it really depends what you're looking for. But right now, PING have just brought out what was. A product really stood out in its class. It's very much for me, a player's type wedge. It's a forge wedge, which is really interesting to me. It looks absolutely superb, and you can probably see alongside it, I'm reviewing the i59s as well. It sits extremely well in the bag with a set of them things. So we're down at a par three course just at the back of four golf. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to try some sort of full wedges, which for 54 degrees, which is the one I've got in the bag, is going to be around a hundred yards, and then we'll try some short stuff in and around the greens and see how this thing performs in a hands of an average golfer. Is it a player's wedge or is it suitable for everyone? I'm assuming by that, I expect. I just interested to see whether or not there's two shots you'll see overlaid. It is a 54 degree wedge, don't forget that I've got it in hand. I played what is a normal sort of from there for me. It would be more of a chip in one style shot and again, released quite good, not the best of shots from me, but then to play from exactly the same position and be able to lay the club face open a little bit without it feeling uncomfortable, sometimes on me, or I think one of the big improvements in wedges of latest is that ability to lay them open and not feel as though the club is not on the line and aim that you want. So it sits very naturally behind the club face. So it's easy to do that. And again, you've just seen that ball pop up high, totally different ball flight. So plenty of flexibility within the club face itself and the way it sits on the ground, which again is a major plus, isn't it? Another reason why you'll have a wedge in your bag is often to get out of some heavy stuff, certainly around the greens, position you might find yourself certainly as an average golfer. And what I want to know from the lie I've got here, it's an okay lie, it's not great, but what I want to know is what kind of control I've got. One thing the glide wedges did incredibly well on their previous release was they performed extremely well in wet conditions. That's something they've done very well, ping wedges. And again, control from the rough. So we're not like I said, it's not the worst lie in the world, but it'll be just being interesting to see how much this releases from this type of lie. Let's pop that out okay. You see a release. Greens are fairly fermia, it's part three courses, still lively enough in terms of the greens, it kind of, I think you've got to have a level of expectation. It didn't do any different than I would expect it to, it came out of the rough there was obviously grass where you see where they hit there actually. You can see plenty of grass on the club and grass between ball that causes that problem in terms of spin or control rather. So we didn't learn a great deal if I'm honest with you from that shot, it did exactly as we probably expected to with no magic miracle in terms of being able to stop that ball from that kind of lie. So when you buy a wedge I think what you've got to do right now is decide what is it you want from it, what are you looking for, what are the key features. So for me with this glide wedge the big dealers are this forged. So straight away I'm a golfer that likes to have great feel in terms of ions. So that takes a major box but then you're looking at kind of like profile and you're thinking well this is very much a player's profile in terms of its size but what I will say they've done really well with this, they packed a little bit of massing around the backside of it that you don't really see. So it sits in the category now, well I would call the glide it's a pretty much a pro wedge. I think it's a very playable wedge and it's got forgiveness in there if you like because of that sort of mass behind the ball. So I think it appeals to quite could appeal to a wide range of golfers who are looking for a number of different things, so yet it'll appeal to a player but also appeal to a player who wants more of a game improvement type wedge and I think that's a big deal what ping have done there. So we've just moved forward off the T-Aplage 130 this is probably that's a little bit too far but I think we've got about sort of 110 in us downwind. So this is very much obviously a full wedge but something that you're going to be looking to play. Interesting to see the sort of contact and sound between club and ball. That's a really nice feel, picks the ball up really well. Actually got the yard is a little bit longer than what I expected it to be but we'd take that but I think the key for me was the sound and feel I mentioned in a previous clip it's a big deal for me it's something that ping have got that others haven't in this category and that's that forged feel and what resonates ultimately in sound so yeah loving that. so one of the key things is this is clasped as a player's wedge and I've already said about the back end having a little bit of meat into it they've done really well in terms of when they sit to the dress from the top line it looks like a player's wedge but what I will say they've done this really good job and we've seen it a lot is this kind of like shanford back line which really makes it look very very neat to the dress but in fact hides a little bit of mass that's in here and I think it's not the widest sole unit if we look down at the sole it's kind of but it's not a blade like it's not a player's like it's got a bit of mass there and I like the fact that they do that when it sat there though the big noticeable difference sort of behind the ball is the heel to toe length and the actual shaping of it that's when it becomes very much more into that player's category so it's shorter in terms of the distance that we've normally see between like I said that players and a game improvement type iron it's also got a sort of very rounded type shape on the whole wedge and I think again it's very much unique to their look that they've got going on right now because I think to be fair again it's classic in its looks but it's very much a pin glide wedge that you've seen before and that is again it's something that's A is it going to appeal to you or is it not because it is noticeably smaller in the dress than a lot of wedges that are out there so a couple of shots here play from what is really light rough and but again you're not expecting this is a half a shot one of the most difficult shots to kind of get some control on and you'll see from both them pitch on the green but still release that little bit and I think it's every mind that let's not kid ourselves that it's it's not there ain't no miracles within these wedges there ain't no things that are spin machines this idea that you know something's going to come along with grooves that are effectively maybe a little bit claiming to be a little bit different than those on other wedges but effectively it is all going to be about the quality of the strike that you and I put on them and coming from that kind of rough just that light rough you'll see again like I said there's still that little bit of release there and you can't forget that when you're buying these things like I said there's no miracles out there so nice shots are finished I think we'll leave it there there's only so much you can do in terms of wedged reviews and we've looked at it in a number of different scenarios and like I said there's no magic ones it all really just rely on your kind of strike you see there that last shot was probably the best representation of a full shot which sat and grabbed it's coming in from the right kind of elevation some of the shorter three quarter shots always going to be difficult control but if I was to assess the kind of what they've done they've produced a really good looking wedge first of all it the the massive ticking of boxamies the feel from it feels superb and sounds really good the negative is if there is any it's just that size and profile as opposed to negative in the fact that it doesn't appeal to the masses but if you're that kind of player and that appeals to you it's a massive bonus but I still feel that if you can get over the kind of looks in terms of the smaller profile there's plenty of help and assistance in there to play it as a game improvement type where does if you like so you know this pro title that it's given I'm not really sure it's sort of excluded itself from a number of golfers out there that'd be perfectly fine in playing that wedge in the bag so that's what you've done as ever thank you for watching don't forget if if you're looking for wedges at the moment and you've seen a few of later have come out are these going to be on the wish list that's the thing I would like to know from you and also maybe another good one for me because that's I've gone round here testing this wedge it's thinking how many times or how often do you change your wedge and in other key factors how often do you clean your grooves on the way around your game of golf because that's another interesting bit for me right thanks as ever for watching and I'll see you all very soon because we're carrying on and I'm going to hit some more shots with these i59s which hopefully you've watched that review already and they're pretty impressive too