Are two wedges too many or not enough?

I bought a 64° wedge last summer, and today I have a 52° showing up in the mail, along with a 15′ ball retrieval extension do-hickey thing. I have neon coloured balls coming tomorrow, because I have been donating balls to courses at what I feel is a heightened rate, because white is too plain to see. I think a neon pink would be far easier to spot. I hope! But, back to the original question, is two too many, or do people actually use all of the degree options available between the two extremes that I have now purchased? I suppose if you play weekly it might make sense to have a wide array of wedges, irons, woods, hybrids and the like. I have played twice, and I could very well squeeze in two 9 hole rounds or one 18 back at Lyndhurst again, since all four of us got rained out in a (much needed) heavy downpour. Now I have rain cheques to use as I see fit.

I held off on fairway woods because I was pretty happy with my 9 iron most of the time, but I found a used one that was a hybrid (I guess?) and also picked up a smaller headed driver that also works as a wood too. I wanted options to have. Not so many I’d be paralyzed by choice, but something in nearly every category that I could draw from when needed.

My golf clubs were bought off Facebook Marketplace and they have a 3, 5, 7, and 9 iron only. Which I think is ok, because for the longest time the only club I could hit correctly was the 9 iron. I have used my 3 once, and I am not aware of having used either of the other two. I downloaded a few pages of cheat sheets that tells me when is a good time to use each type of club, and for irons, which number, but I failed to even remember I had such data at my finger tips when we played on Tuesday afternoon. Oh well!

I see you can have irons that run from 1 through 9. I have a tough time imagining anybody but a pro, or Pro-Am player needing that many options. Terms like too much club, or too little club are meaningless to me. I’m not sure if I’ll drive for 225 yards, or 25 after bouncing off a tree, or scorching the grass with a worm burner. And if I do make contact it’s a one in three chance I go hard right, hard left, or straight down the middle. A clear swing path is something I do not have defined.

I have not spent enough time building up muscle memory in order to have a set swing path. Am I wide, shallow, too open, too flat, drop an elbow too soon, twisting, have no follow through. I do not know. I’m just glad when I hear that pure clack sound and the ball takes off. Now I’ve read that the driving range doesn’t translate to the course. What helps on the course is playing on the course. I will say I’m getting tired of three putts. I had some fantastic near misses with one putt chances, but I tend more towards three putts to go well into double par territory (at best).

So rather than pay money to blast balls at the driving range, which was my go to for a fun, short, mostly inexpensive outing, I am now opting to just go play somewhere inexpensive in the surrounding area of York Region. Lots to choose from (golf courses that is, maybe not inexpensive ones).

But before I get carried away with golf I do have to be available for my paid day job (though that has become slower as of late than usual). I also need to complete some wood working tasks that I have gotten started but still need to assemble, sand, and apply finish. I could also take some time to build myself some bedroom furniture for the cottage. My room is still just a bed, and a tiny side table. I need a dresser (of sorts) to place things on, and in. Doesn’t necessarily need drawers, but separate cubbies would work as well. Not too big, and not too heavy either.

So how many wedges do most of you have. I think I’m good now with two. Steep and steeper still. I find it not to bad to flop and roll with the one I have now if I’m not standing too strangely on an angle when I swing. I do have trouble guessing at how hard or soft I should be. I don’t encounter these situations enough to know anything like that yet. I also don’t know how to induce a top spin, or back spin for not launching a ball across a green once I get within 80 yards of it. Seems like I’m just swinging for the fences, or moving forward ten feet at a time. I get loft when I don’t want it, and send balls screaming across the grass tips when I wanted to go high. I have lost all control over my body when a golf ball & club enters the mix. It is frustrating.

Either way I have an inexpensive second wedge coming today in the mail. It is out for delivery as we speak, so it could arrive at any moment! Exciting. Then I need to sit down at my computer and put a few more pages of my report together. Anything I can get done today, and tomorrow is something I don’t have to do come Monday when I’m home alone with the kids after my wife returns to work.