CROMWELL, Conn. — It's common on the PGA Tour for players to carry multiple lob wedges with different grinds and switch between them based on the conditions or the type of grass they're playing each week.
Scottie Scheffler has used two different types of lob wedges in recent years, but he hasn't changed them in the same way. And if you know anything about Scheffler and his golf clubs, that's par for the course.
Earlier this year at the WM Phoenix Open, Scheffler made the switch from the Titleist Vokey SM10 .06K-Grind lob wedge, the most popular wedge-sole-solee on the PGA Tour over the past few seasons, to the one-and-only T-Grind, the top-grinding Vokey on the PGA Tour.
“It's a tight fit right now,” Scheffler said Wednesday at the Travelers Championship. “We'll see. If I get the ink to change it, I'll change it. But once it's in the bag, it's usually hard for me to get the club out.”
Both are low-grinder options but they get there in different ways. The .06K's (to be distinguished from the high-bounce .12K) are only wide and flat making it more forgiving on tight lies, soft conditions and out of bunkers. Meanwhile, the T has an extreme heel and toe relief for maximum flexibility.
Scheffler has won with both wedges throughout his career. He used the .06K for his first five victories, including his first major at the 2022 Masters, but switched to T during his wins at the 2023 WM Phoenix Open and the 2023 Players Championship.
IT – the SM9 model from 2022 – was the lobber of choice for his historic 2024 season in which he won nine times around the world, including a second Masters, Olympic Gold and the FedEx Cup title.
But in 2025, Scheffler returned to the K in the CJ Cup Bryon Nelson, won that week and won five times that season, including his third and fourth majors at the PGA Championship and Open.
Adding to his victory earlier this year at the American Express, the tournament before he returned to the T again, that gives him 12 PGA Tour victories with the K-Grind and eight with the T. The biggest difference is three to one in favor of K as well.
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Where things get really interesting is that working with each wedge seems to have nothing to do with the course or the conditions. Of the five courses where he won twice, three of them (Bay Hill, Augusta National and Muirfield Village) he won with both wedges.
As of 2022, his hit numbers are nearly identical with both wedges, hitting .363 with the K-grind in 33 events and .371 hitting in 47 events with the T. During that time, he has never finished outside the top 25 at SG: Around the Green and is fourth in a career high this season.
So if he doesn't do courses or situations, why did he change three times in the last four years?
“There's no real rhyme or reason to it, I think sometimes I put it down to thinking, 'Oh, when we get to the hard subjects, I'm going to use the small ones and the soft ones and the wide ones,'” Scheffler said. “And I use it in the first tournament and I love it and it's like, actually, I don't want to change because I have to get used to this new wedge and I'm like, oh, that's too big.”
SM11 T-Grind wedge sole vs. SM10 .06K-Grind sole.
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That checks out a lot of Scheffler's behavior on his golf swing. While many players develop emotional bonds with clubs, Scheffler can sometimes take it to the next level.
For example, his TaylorMade partner, Adrian Rietveld, told Golf Digest last year when Scheffler replaced each iron in his set as it wore out, rather than getting a new set (although Scheffler himself disputed this back in February).
The point is that when you get comfortable, you get comfortable and you will need a strong reason to change. Despite the huge difference between his two popular lob wedges, that doesn't seem to happen often. It should be noted that the T-Grind Scheffler reverted to the same SM9 version he played in 2023 and 2024, and Scheffler still plays the third-generation SM8 in his space and sand.
“I'm always changing and I always will be [caddie] Teddy [Scott] like, 'Oh, yeah, I'm going to use it in these lessons and change,' ” Scheffler said. “Then I find something that I like and say, 'Gosh, I like this. I'll use it anywhere.'
“The lob wedge is one of those teams where you have to learn to play in many different lies until I feel like I'm close to the team you're playing, I don't want to let it pass, I know it well.”
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