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July 4, 2011 Esteban Silva - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cleveland Niblick II DW Wedge (Sports)
As reference, I'm a 20-handicap, 53 years old...
The Cleveland Niblick is so easy to use it's almost like cheating. It's the only club in my bag with which I can dial in a distance consistently, using full, 3/4 and half swings. This review is for the 49 degree, but I also have the 42 and 56 degree versions. You can really feel the club head when you swing, which has become very important to me, so much so that I'm now on the lookout for irons that feel the same way. I can fade, draw, hit high or low with this club all the time.
The 49 degree niblick (which falls between your newer-model pitching wedge and your sand wedge, something like a gap wedge) can handle anything from 100-110 yards in with ease: shots from short fairway bunkers, from the rough, and of course from the fairway, where a nice half-swing will give me about 50 yards with a bit of roll (great for safe shots to the back of the green), and 3/4 works for about 75-80 yards. Around the greens, it's...Read more