Pitching wedges, drivers, putters and nine irons - golf was never so much fun.

Johnson had said that golfers hitting pitching wedges and sand wedges into Augusta National's par 4's was not what the Masters is about.

Many pitching wedges have a loft close to 50 .

The loft of a particular pitching wedge follows the progression of the numbered irons of the same set, and these sets can have subtle differences in the loft progression and starting loft of the set, so the loft of pitching wedges can vary widely between sets.

The men used pitching wedges.

Wedges come in a variety of configurations, and are generally grouped into four categories; pitching wedges, sand wedges, gap/approach wedges and lob wedges.

The name derives from the club's design to fill the "gap" between sand and pitching wedges.

Dead Hands Pitching - showed the value of higher lofted wedges (he developed the first 60 and 64-degree lofted wedges)

"I'd also recommend three wedges for the average player, but I think most amateurs would be better off keeping their standard sand wedge, which is probably about 56 degrees, and getting a stronger lofted club for shots between the sand and pitching wedges."