sand wedge

(Golf) golf a club with a flanged sole and a face angle of more than 50°, used in bunker shots to cut through sand, get under the ball, and lift it clear

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sand wedge - a wedge used to get out of sand traps

wedge - (golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole

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While Rahm beat the ground with his sand wedge and angrily berated himself for a series of wayward shots, McDowell kept his cool to enter the clubhouse one under.

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Justin Thomas also got a scare, mainly because his opponent had to putt with a sand wedge over the last 12 holes.

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In this four-wedge system, starting with your 45-degree pitching wedge, you can then add a gap wedge at 50 degrees, a sand wedge at 55 degrees and a lob wedge at 60 degrees, which should equate to 8 to 12-yard gaps for the average golfer.

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A good selection would be sand wedge, pitching wedge and an 8 iron and choosing one of these depending on the lie of the ball and the amount of green you have to work with.

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It seems silly hitting sand wedge, sand wedge into 18 but as soon as he told me to lay up, I knew probably five was enough.

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He's very calm as you saw at the last when he made me lay up with a sand wedge.

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"With the wind the way it was I could take some of the bunkers out of play, get it down there where I could hit sand wedge into the greens even from the rough.

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Tommy Cooper's Christmas (10.05pm) A seasonal special from 1973, featuring a generous helping of mirth, mayhem and magic from the comedian, who demonstrates how to cook a duck-egg omelette, plays snooker with a sand wedge and rides an ostrich.

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Expect, then, to be guffawing with glee at this Christmas special, in which he cooks a duck egg omelette, plays snooker with a sand wedge and rides an ostrich - just like that.

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