CROMWELL, Conn. — It’s common on the PGA Tour for players to carry multiple lob wedges with different sole grinds and switch between them based on the conditions or type of grass they’re playing each week.
Scottie Scheffler has used two different types of lob wedges in recent years, but he doesn’t change them the same way. And if you know anything about Scheffler and his golf clubs, that’s pretty par for the course.
“Sticking with the narrow one for now,” Scheffler said Wednesday at the Travelers Championship. “We’ll see. If I get an inkling to change it, I will. But once it gets in the bag, it’s typically tough for me to take a club out.”
Both are low-bounce grind options but get there in different ways. The .06K’s (to be distinguished from the higher-bounce .12K) wide and flatter sole makes it much more forgiving on tight lies, slightly softer conditions and out of the bunkers. Meanwhile, the T has extreme heel and toe relief for maximum versatility.
Scheffler has won with both wedges throughout his career. He used the .06K to pick up his first five victories, including his first major at the 2022 Masters, but switched to the T sometime between his wins at the 2023 WM Phoenix Open and 2023 Players Championship.
The T — the SM9 model from 2022 — was the lobber of choice for his historic 2024 season when he won nine times worldwide, including a second Masters, Olympic Gold and the FedEx Cup title.
But in 2025, Scheffler went back to the K at the CJ Cup Bryon Nelson, won that week and then won five more times that season, including his third and fourth major titles at the PGA Championship and Open.
Adding in his victory earlier this year at the American Express, the tournament before he went back to the T again, that gives him 12 PGA Tour victories with the K-Grind and eight with the T. The major split is three to one in favor of the K as well.
Where things get really interesting is that performance with each wedge seems to have nothing to do with the course or conditions. Of the five courses where he’s won twice, three of them (Bay Hill, Augusta National and Muirfield Village) he’s won with both wedges.
Since 2022, his strokes gained numbers are nearly identical with both wedges, gaining .363 strokes with the K-grind across 33 events and .371 strokes over 47 events with the T. In that time, he’s never finished outside the top 25 in SG: Around the Green and is a career-high fourth this season.
So if he’s not doing it for the course or conditions, why change three times over the past four years?
“There’s no real rhyme or reason to it, I think just sometimes I put it in imagining, ‘Oh, when we get to the firmer courses, I’ll use the narrower and the soft ones the wider one,’” Scheffler said. “And I use it in the first tournament and I like it and it’s like, actually, I don’t really want to change because I got to adjust to this new wedge and I’m like, oh, that’s too much.”
An SM11 T-Grind wedge sole versus an SM10 .06K-Grind sole.
Jack Hirsh/GOLF
That checks out with a lot of Scheffler’s behavior around his golf equipment. While many players form emotional attachment to clubs, Scheffler can take that to another level at times.
For instance, his TaylorMade fitter, Adrian Rietveld, told Golf Digest last year that Scheffler replaces individual irons in his set as they wear out, rather than getting a new set (although Scheffler himself contradicted this back in February).
The point is to say that when he gets comfortable, he gets comfortable and will need a compelling reason to switch. Despite the major differences between his two preferred lob wedges, that doesn’t seem to happen all that often. It should be noted that the T-Grind Scheffler has gone back to is the same SM9 version he played in 2023 and 2024, and Scheffler still plays the three-generation-old SM8 in his gap and sand wedge.
“I always switch and I’d be to [caddie] Teddy [Scott] like, ‘Oh, yeah, I’ll use it on these courses and then switch,’” Scheffler said. “And then I get something that I like and I’m like, ‘Gosh, I like this. I’ll use it wherever.’
“The lob wedge is one of those clubs where you have to learn to play from so many different lies that I get like almost in a relationship with the club where you’re like, I don’t really want to let it go, I know it so well.”
