Lovett Wedge

The Lovett Wedge offers golfers a new approach to shots from sand and rough, one that golfers who are terrified of sand shots should find very useful.

Pros

Cons

The Lovett Wedge "replaces technique with technology" the company says. And they pull it off, too.

The Lovett Wedge allows golfers to play shots from the rough and the sand as they would a normal golf shot. This is particularly helpful to mid- and high-handicappers, golfers who tend to struggle out of the sand.

This club is clearly best suited for players who are terrified of sand shots, because it removes the need for that terror.

Low-handicappers, however, and others who prefer to play from the sand the "right" way won't be as fond of this club.

Sand shots are among the easiest on the course for better players. But many recreational golfers struggle with the technique, which is very different from a "normal" golf shot.

With the Lovett Wedge, a sand shot (or shot from the rough) becomes just another golf shot with a normal swing. Take a normal stance, put the ball in the middle, take a normal swing.

No opening of the clubface or stance, no worrying about a precise point behind the ball (one inch? two inches? three?) that you're supposed to hit. Just line up the shot (aiming at the target, not to the left), swing back, then down and through to the finish, turning to face the target.

The club's technology - rounded sole, curved leading edge ahead of the hosel - cuts through resistance the way a boat's hull cuts through water.

Our high-handicap testers loved it. Some low-handicappers didn't - but, then, they don't need the help it provides.