🏌️‍♂️ The carry number that matters for the scoring end of your bag

Quick question - how far do you actually carry your pitching wedge?

Your number that you can reliably hit more than 80% of the time.

A lot of golfers can't say with confidence. And it quietly wrecks the scoring end of the bag.

And what got my thinking about this was last week’s episode of Golf.com’s Fully Equipped with Arccos' CEO Sal Syed..

For roughly 400 years, iron gapping has been linear. Same loft gap between clubs, so you’d assume the same distance gap.

Ping’s data says no and shows that assumption breaks down for the mid-handicap player.

A steady four-degree loft gap doesn't produce a steady distance gap out on the course.

So Ping built a non-linear gapping algorithm off real-world Arccos shots.

The takeaway?

The neat 10-yard ladder you picture between your irons? It may not exist.

So what should you do when it comes for your own carry numbers and gaps between irons?

For one stop trusting the number stamped on your irons. Start with one real number.

Anchor everything off your pitching wedge’s true carry distance and loft.

Then map your gaps up and down from there.

That’s how you find the crucial black holes that make a real impact out on the course. Two clubs that go the same distance. Or a gap that’s really 15 yards, not 10.

And when you add wedges, the thing that matters most isn’t the brand on the sole.

It’s keeping the shaft weight consistent, so your full-swing wedges feel like an extension of your short irons

We broke the whole thing down, length and lie angle included, right here.