Wedge stair
A 56° is not a pitching wedge with more bounce
Shorter, heavier, often a different tube family. If we append wedges to the iron stair, we manufacture a “jump” that is really a change of instrument. So we do not.
Two or three clubs, their own carbon
Gap, sand, lob — whatever actually rides in the bag. We tick them as a small stair and we compare neighbors inside that family. A 52° and a 56° that sit 20 cycles apart will feel like two companies around the green even if both stamps say “wedge flex.”
Players often blame grind when the tube is the stranger. Grind still matters on turf. It cannot fix a shaft that rings like a 9-iron while its sibling rings like a putter. Different problems, different doors.
Same clamp height, different expectation
5.5 inches still. The mass still drops from the marked station. What changes is how we read the stair: we allow a wider family spread than we do on 4–PW, and we will not chase a lob wedge into the pitching-wedge number just to make a chart look linear. Linearity across categories is a poster, not a measurement.
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