The first major of 2025 has arrived, and players are getting their Vokey setups dialed to take on Augusta National.
Players experience a variety of unique playing surfaces at The Masters, including tight-cut Bermuda grass, granulated quartz sand and perfectly-placed pine straw just outside of the second cut.
With these course conditions—which vary from other setups on TOUR—do players ever switch up their wedges?
Many of the Vokey Wedge players in the field, including Jordan Spieth, Ludvig Aberg, Cameron Young, Brian Harman and Russell Henley, will play with their standard setups. Alternatively, Justin Thomas, Ben An, Billy Horschel and Tom Kim, prefer to adjust their bag based on course conditions.
For the players who are tailoring their grind setups based on conditions the question is posed, “How do I need to adjust my grinds and for which conditions?”
The tightly mown turf conditions around the greens may encourage players to reduce bounce on their dominant short game wedge. For most that will be their lob wedge. Players wanting to make an adjustment for this condition will likely want to see the wedge sit closer to the ground when open, giving a sense of ease to create height around the elevated, dramatically sloped greens. The bunkers will also present their own challenges. Soft bunker conditions, may have players consider adding bounce or sole width on their primary bunker club. These adjustments will help the wedge glide through the softer sand allowing the player to escape the many well placed green-side bunkers around Augusta National.
The questions posed by these unique and challenging conditions will be answered this weekend.
For 21 consecutive years and counting, Vokey wedges have been the most played wedge on the PGA TOUR. The Masters gives the best short game players in the world a chance to show off their skills—and refined wedge setups—on one of the game’s most iconic and demanding stages.
