What Scottie Scheffler’s Under-the-Radar Change Says About Him

CROMWELL, Conn. — It is common on the PGA Tour for players to carry multiple wedges with different heel grits and switch between them based on the conditions or type of grass they play each week.

Scottie Scheffler in recent years he has used two different types of wedges, but he does not change them in the same way. And if you know anything about Scheffler and his golf clubs, that’s pretty par for the course.

Earlier this year at the WM Phoenix Open, Scheffler made a switch from a Title Vokey SM10 .06K-Grind lob wedgea wide-sole wedge that has become very popular on the PGA Tour in recent seasons, at tight heel T-Grind, the highest Vokey grind on the PGA Tour.

“Staying with that tight one for now,” Scheffler said Wednesday at Travelers Championship. “We’ll see. If I have an idea to change it, I will. But once it’s in the bag, it’s usually hard for me to take a club out.”

Both are low-bloat grinding options, but they get there in different ways. The wider and flatter .06K (to be distinguished from the higher bounce .12K) toe makes it much more forgiving on tight lies, slightly softer conditions and out of bunkers. Meanwhile, the T has extreme heel and toe relief for maximum versatility.

Scheffler has won with both wedges throughout his career. He used .06K to take his first five wins, including his first major at the 2022 Masters, but switched to the T sometime between his wins at the 2023 WM Phoenix Open and the 2023 Players Championship.

The T – the SM9 model from 2022 – was the lobon of choice for his historic 2024 season, when he won nine times around the world, including a second Masters, Olympic Gold and the FedEx Cup title.

But in 2025, Scheffler returned to K in CJ Cup Bryon Nelsonwon that week and went on to win five more times that season, including his third and fourth major titles at the PGA Championship and the Open.

Adding to his win earlier this year at the American Express, the tour before switching back to the T, that gives him 12 PGA Tour wins with the K-Grind and eight with the T. The big split is three to one in favor of the K as well.

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Where things get really interesting is that the performance with each wedge seems to have nothing to do with the course or the conditions. Of the five courses where he has won twice, three of them (Bay Hill, Augusta National and Muirfield Village) he has won with both wedges.

As of 2022, his batting averages are nearly identical with both wedges, hitting .363 with the K-grind in 33 events and .371 hitting over 47 events with the T. In that time, he has never finished outside of 25 balls in SG: Around the Green and is in his fourth career season.

So if he’s not doing it for the course or the conditions, why change three times in the last four years?

“There’s no real rhyme or reason to it, I think I just sometimes set it up imagining, ‘Oh, when we get to the hard drives, I’m going to use the tighter ones and the soft ones wider,'” 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 adjust to this new wedge and I’m like, oh, this is too much.”

This is checked with many of Scheffler’s behaviors around his golf equipment. While many players form emotional bonds with clubs, Scheffler can take it to another level at times.

For example, his TaylorMade fitter, Adrian Rietveld, said Golf Digest last year that Scheffler replaced the individual irons in his set as they wear out, rather than getting a new set (though Scheffler himself disputed this in February).

The point is to say that when he feels comfortable, he feels comfortable and will need a compelling reason to switch. Despite the vast differences between his two favorite wedges, that doesn’t seem to happen all that often. It should be noted that T-Grind Scheffler is back to the same SM9 version he played in 2023 and 2024, and Scheffler still plays the three-generation old SM8 in his trench and sand wedge.

“I’m always switching and I’d be at (caddie) Teddy (Scott) like, ‘Oh yeah, I’m going to use it on these courses and then switch,'” Scheffler said. “And then I get something that I like and I’m like, ‘God, I like this. I’ll use it everywhere.”

“The lob wedge is one of those clubs where you have to learn to play from so many different lies that it seems to me almost in a relationship with the club you are at, I don’t want to let it go, I know it very well.”

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