Enter what your wedges actually carry on a full swing, a half swing, and a finesse swing. This page builds your matrix, flags any two numbers that are too close to tell apart, reads the yardage band you cover, and prints a card for your bag. Everything runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, and nothing is saved: close the tab and the chart is gone.
Under about 60 yards, how the club interacts with the ground is most of the shot, and a mat does not behave like turf. A mat lets the club skid into the ball in a way grass never allows, so the shorter the shot, the less a mat number means. Full swing carries built indoors travel reasonably well. Finesse carries built indoors are a starting point, not a yardage. Take the short end of this chart outside and check it before you trust it on the course.
One carry number per box is all you need. If you have several carries for a box, type them all with commas between them and this page works out the average and your own scatter for that cell, which turns the gap flags below from an assumption into a measurement. Carry, never total distance. Leave anything you do not know blank.
The card prints on its own at 4 by 6 inches, which fits a yardage book or a bag pocket. On a phone, choose Print or Share and then Print from the browser menu.
A chart tells you what you carry. This tells you whether you can produce it on demand, which is the only version of the question a golf course ever asks. The page calls a random yardage from inside the band your own chart covers. You pick the club and the swing, hit it, and log how close it finished. Ten calls, one score.
Your carry numbers stay hidden while you choose, because recalling the number is half the skill. You can turn them back on at any point. The round lives on this page only: reload it and the score is gone.
Which club and which swing?
Hit it. How close did it finish?
This page builds your card and forgets it when you close the tab. Chip, the coach on the other side of this site, keeps a club matrix on every profile and reads it at the start of every session. Create a free account, tell him these numbers in your first chat, and he stores them, coaches your wedge game from them, and updates each cell as you re measure it. Free start, 3 messages, no card required.
Start free and keep your numbersA wedge matrix is an hour of measured practice, not a season of guessing. Pick three swings you can repeat, hit a handful of balls with each wedge at each one, and write down the carry. The three swings below are the ones the coaching side of this site teaches, and they are defined by a physical checkpoint rather than a feeling, because a checkpoint is something you can rehearse and check.
The one rule that makes it work: tempo stays the same across all three. Length of backswing is the only variable. If you shorten the swing and then hit harder to compensate, you have not built a half swing, you have built a different full swing with less margin. The two ways this falls apart are both worth knowing: too short a backswing for the shot forces you to accelerate wildly on the way down, and too long a backswing forces you to decelerate, which is where the fat and thin ones come from.
Anchor every swing to a carry number, not to a position on a clock face. Clock positions feel precise and are not: where your hands are at the top is hard to feel accurately, it moves around with tempo and with how hard you are trying, and two golfers with the same clock position hit it different distances anyway. A carry number is an outcome, it is the thing you actually care about on the course, and it is measurable. Name the swing whatever you like. What makes it real is the number attached to it.
How each swing tends to fly, and why the chart carries three of them rather than one:
A well struck full wedge lands steep and spins hard, 9,000 to 11,500 rpm of back spin coming down at 48 to 52 degrees. Your partial swings sit under that on both counts. Those two bands come from the same benchmark table the coach and the decode tool on this site read, anchored to PGA Tour Trackman averages and widened to cover well struck amateur golf. They are the only numbers on this page that did not come from you.
That difference is the second reason to build the whole grid. Two cells can carry the same number and still be different shots, because one lands steeply and stops and the other lands flatter and releases. When two of your numbers sit on top of each other, that is not automatically waste. It is only waste if the two also fly the same. A front pin wants the steeper one, and a back pin or a shot into wind often wants the flatter one.
When you find a stretch of your yardage band with nothing in it, the method says to fill it by calibrating one cell to a number, not by hitting more balls in general. One deliberate correction to one swing, rechecked, beats another bucket.
This page reads the numbers you type today and forgets them the moment you close the tab. It cannot tell you whether your 50 degree half swing is drifting shorter than it was in May, which of these cells you have actually practiced lately, or what to do about the stretch in the middle of your chart. Those are all questions about your game over time, and answering them takes something that remembers the last chart you built. Fore-ward Thinking is the coaching side of this page: it keeps your club matrix on your profile, reads it at the start of every session, and coaches your wedge game from your own numbers rather than from averages.
See what a coach with memory does with your wedges
There is no number that answers this for everybody, and any page that hands you one is guessing. Wedge carry depends on the loft of that particular club, how fast you swing it, how you deliver it, and the ball you play. What you can do is find out what your own wedges carry, which takes about an hour with a launch monitor and is worth more than any average you will ever read. Build the chart, then trust your numbers over anybody else's.
A grid of your own carry numbers: every wedge in the bag across every swing length you can repeat. Three swings per wedge covers everything inside a full pitching wedge, and it means you always have a club and a swing that owns the number in front of you, instead of inventing a shot you have never practiced while standing over the ball.
It is far easier with one, because carry is the number that matters and a launch monitor is the only thing that measures carry directly. You can build a rough version on a range with marked yardages, but you will be reading total distance, which is carry plus roll and not the same thing. If you build it that way, treat every number as approximate and rebuild it the first time you get a launch monitor session.
Because under about 60 yards the interaction between the club and the ground is most of the shot, and a mat lets the club skid into the ball in a way turf never does. Full swing numbers off a mat travel reasonably well. Finesse numbers off a mat can be wrong by enough to cost you a green. Build the chart indoors if indoors is what you have, then take the short end outside and check it.
Enough that one fat one does not set your yardage. Five good ones per box is a sensible target. Enter three or more carries in a box and this page computes your own scatter for that cell instead of assuming one, which is what turns a gap flag from an estimate into a measurement. Two numbers only count as different shots when they sit farther apart than your scatter.
A practice game built on the chart you just made. The page calls a random carry from inside the band your chart covers, you choose the club and the swing, hit it, and log how close it finished. Ten calls, one score out of 10 for finishing inside 20 feet. It matters because building the chart is the easy half. Producing one of those numbers when a page asks for it cold, with a different yardage every time, is the half that shows up on the course.