a club with a face angle of more than 50°, used for short, lofted pitch shots
Examples of 'pitching wedge' in a sentence
pitching wedge
I threw my pitching wedge towards them to encourage them into the water.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
Cue a fantastic pitching wedge to the delightful, 346-yard 8th and another putt went in.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
If you play it as a three-wood/pitching wedge it's straightforward, but when conditions persuade you to go for the green, things get more complicated.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Whether you're hitting a pitching wedge from 180 yards or a six-iron from 110.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
In the process of making a quadruplebogey eight on the 11th, he takes out his frustration on his pitching wedge, bending it out of shape.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Just as his golf follows a pretty straightforward formula, driver, pitching wedge, putt, so his attitude to triumph and disaster is less than complicated.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
On the 16th she hit a pitching wedge with an enviably low flight, even though it did pull up 30 feet short of its target.