Our First-Ever Forged Wedge! Dan Grieve Breaks Down the New MG5

When it comes to wedges, there is feel—and then there’s forged feel. Introducing TaylorMade’s first-ever forged wedge, the new MG5!

In this video, we brought on @DanGrieveGolf to walk you through all of the new innovations and technology that’s packed into these beautiful new wedges, and give you a better understanding of the exciting new grind offerings in the lineup.

MG5 was forged with ultra soft carbon steel for the softest feel possible, giving you ultimate feedback in the scoring zone and around the greens.

With a new, aggressive, saw-milled groove, a fully RAW face, and Spin Tread Technology, this wedge is built to deliver spin and performance in all conditions. As Dan explains and demonstrates by hitting a variety of shots in damp, thick lies. He’s still able to get the ball to have stopping power.

The MG5 wedge is the most versatile wedge line in TaylorMade’s history, with six total grinds to match a wide array of swing types and playing conditions. New to the lineup is the SX and SC grind. Dan goes into detail just who those new grinds might be for, along with the SB, LB, HB, and TW (Tiger Woods) grind offerings.

Learn more about MG5 wedge here: https://tmgolf.co/IGMG5Wedge

Follow Dan Grieve here: @DanGrieveGolf

00:00 Introduction
00:40 Forged Feel
01:43 New Saw Milled Grooves & RAW Face Design
02:30 Spin in Wet Conditions
03:39 Bunker Testing
04:35 What Grind is Right for You?
05:15 Low Bounce
06:30 Standard Bounce
07:26 SC Grind (NEW)
09:05 SX Grind (NEW)
10:15 High Bounce
11:14 TW Grind
11:56 5 Shots Around the Green
12:33 Chip & Run
13:14 Flop Shot
14:16 Toe Down Chip
15:15 Flop Out of the Rough
16:05

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So many of you would have experienced that feeling of flushing a forged iron. But how many of you have had that feeling of playing with a forged wedge? Introducing the new MG5 wedge by Tailor Made. It is absolutely beautiful. The feeling of it is so soft. It is incredible. And in the next few minutes, I’m going to go through the features of this wedge, but really link in the technical part behind Tailormaid’s first forged wedge. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] So, we all know that short game is about finesse and touch. So, having a forged wedge is a real game changer, particularly on a shot like this, which is really quick and down the hill. I’ve been hitting a few of these and it just feels like butter. So, I’m hitting these shots here. You can see the spin. It’s really ramping up there. And the feedback is incredible. And I think that’s so important around the greens that you get that touch. Also, what I really like is is the sound. I think acoustics is is just so important in short game. And so, I talk about a lot when I’m teaching and I’m hitting these shots here. And just the sound off the face. It’s so nice. See the spin there? See the picks on the ball going crazy there? That’s just the spin of the ball. But I really feels like the ball just sort of sinks into the into the steel which has been forged. It’s really quite a unique feel. One more. See if we can hold it. [Music] So, one of the key features is the new groove design on this MG5 wedge. The raw face continues. The new sawmilled grooves are really ramping up the spin here. So, let’s check that out. I mean, just fires in there. You can see the spin there. I mean, it stops absolutely dead there. We’re getting some serious action from some from some tight lies here. Look at that. Wow. So, I can really feel the grooves working there. But the benefit really is how it adapts to different ground conditions. So, we’re going to go and test that out and really see how that improves your performance and consistency of launch angles and spin. We’ll go and check that out now. [Music] So, we found a damp area here and a little bit of rough. And this really is where the spin tread really is a key feature of this MG5 wedge because when you’re playing in damp conditions, whether it be in the morning when there’s just a bit of dew around or it’s just raining, you lose a lot of spin because you get the moisture and the debris as well sits between the ball nickel face. You lose friction. The ball tends to launch higher and you lose control. But the benefit of this spin tread in the grooves is you don’t get anywhere near the amount of loss you would normally expect in these conditions. So when you’re playing difficult shots like this, you can still expect to get quite a bit of spin. You can see how that’s still spinning quite a lot um from these conditions. So that really is important for me as a coach and a player and I think for you as players and we don’t always play on perfectly dry conditions and we don’t always play off the fairway. So out the rough from these wet conditions, you know, these look at that stop there. The grooves here are really going to help you out. [Music] Right, let’s test these new grooves out from the sand. Okay, many of you will know this is my favorite place on a golf course. Let’s test it out. About 15 yard bunker shot. Yeah, pretty good. Stopped pretty quick. This light here is sitting down a bit, so it won’t spin quite as much. This is the one that I would normally expect to run out a little bit more. That looks like it’s really spinning. Yeah, look at that. Wow. This is a slightly better lie. Just beautiful. It’s feeding through. Look at that spin. But more importantly for me, how the wedge looks is just absolutely key. And it really doesn’t get any better than this. The craftsmanship that’s clearly gone into this is incredible. The mill grind sole, the chrome satin finish just really makes it stand out. It just looks so good in the golf bag. So, let’s get into the grinds now. And there are six grinds in the MG5 range, ranging from the lower bounce options to the higher bounce options. got some really nice changes in the middle order here for the for the stand standard bounce, the SX and the SC. Uh, which I think will be suit a lot of you because it’s quite difficult choosing the right grind. It really is. And, uh, I really want to make sure you’ve got the right grind. You’ve got to have the right tools. You got to have the right equipment to match the technique that you’ve got and the courses you typically play. So, let’s go through each one to make sure you can choose the right grind for you. [Music] So, first up, we’ve got the LBD, the low bounce option. So, if you’re playing on firm conditions, maybe a Lynx golf course, very tight lies, uh, and you’ve maybe got slightly shallower angle of attack, then this could be the wedge for you. I love how the front edge has really been shaved down here. Okay, so it cameas down at the front, so you’re not going to get that wedge that kicks off the ground. So if you’re playing off very firm conditions and you don’t have that relief at the front, what you might find is the club will kick a little bit. Okay? So it will land and kick up. But when you play with this low bounce, very quickly you realize the club kind of stays in the ground. Look at the control you get there. Um it doesn’t kick, which is what I’m looking for from these tight lies. And I say if you’re coming in releasing the club if a little bit more if you’re one of those golfers that likes to release the club, I call it my release two. Normally you’d have to use more of a release one from a from a firm tight condition, but this type of wedge is so versatile that you are able to actually release the club. And even from a tight lie like that, look, I can still get lots of control and still get a decent ball flight with this low bounce option. [Music] So within that middle range, that kind of 9 to 12 degrees of bounce range where most of you will sit, the MG5 has an SB, an SC, and an S6. Now, this is the SB, the standard bounce. It’s 12°. And this really suits any type of shot you want to play. You can pretty much play with this one. Okay, you can play lower shots, you can play higher shots. There’s a four-way camber on the sole, which means it’s shaped a little bit at the back, little bit at the front, little bit in the heel and the toe. So, it’s nice and soft. Give you a lot of versatility to play high shots, low shots. Release it more, release it less. A little lower one now. And quite easy to use really. It feels like it’s quite soft. It interacts with the turf really nicely. That’s the SB. [Music] So the SC, this is one of the brand new grinds for 2025 for the MG5 wedge. I really like the look of this. This has got lots of heel and toe relief. What that means is it’s shaved down in the heel, shaved down in the toe, and it’s shaved nicely at the back. So this is super versatile to your player likes to open the club face up a little bit and hit high shots, some lob shots. when you open it up, okay, and the hands get low with that camber in the heel, it doesn’t want to sit too much up into the air. You can still get that leading edge nice and low. So, even from a tight lie, which I’ve got here, and low hands, I feel I can still hit that sort of nice high lob shot there, you know, without that um without that heel kicking, which is just the worst feeling in golf when that heel wants to dig in um and turn the face over. So, really love the camber in there. And if you’re a golfer who likes to play that toe down shot, which I teach quite a lot, okay, from a bear line, I mean, that’s sitting in an old divot there. That’s in a hole. But with the camber here, I can hopefully still get this out quite nicely. So toe down, sit super tight to the bottom of the ball still. Open it up. And I’m going to go out and across. And because this is shaved in the toe, hopefully it’s going to get underneath it nicely still. And you can see even from a really difficult line, I can spin that guard. That was unbelievable. That was spin there. Still still got there. But super shaved off in the toe. Even from a lie like that, an old divot sat down in a hole. Still managed to hopefully get it up and down. So that’s the SC. [Music] And the second new grind for the Milgr 25 wedge is this SX. And it’s the widest sole in the MG5 family, but it’s got this fantastic reverse C at camber at the back. Okay, which sometimes, you know, the wide soul, it’s it’s fantastic out the sand, by the way. If you struggle out the sand, it’s fantastic. But sometimes using it trying to hit a higher shot with a wide sole can make the back kick a little bit. But what I absolutely love is this camber at the back. So even if from a tight firmish lie here, I’m going to try and hit a lob shot here. You can see how the back feels so soft. There we go. Look at that one. You can see how the back there is so softly cambered away that as I’ve released that club, as I’ve come down and released it, it’s felt like that sole has stayed on the ground instead of kicking, which um if it was uh too sort of proud across, that might have happened. So, that’s the SX. great if you’re looking for uh improved sand performance, but I think also um with tight eyes and you still want to hit high shots, that also is a serious good option. So, here we’ve got the HB, the high bounce option. This is a 56° and it’s in 14° of bounce. So, I’ve got the most amount of bounce here uh in the MG5 range. So, this is this is actually quite a forgiving wedge. If you struggle a little bit around the greens in terms of contact, maybe you get a little bit steep, as in your divots get quite deep after the ball, like you’re hitting down a little bit too much into the ground, then this would provide a little bit more forgiveness. There’s quite a bit more bounce in the toe of the club. I’m going to sort of come down into this a little bit more. So, I’ve dug down into it, but actually, it still got through the turf quite nicely. So, I came down deep divot, but I still felt like with this increased bounce that it wanted to work through the turf. So, also very good from soft conditions as well. Of course, if you’re playing on a generally a very soft golf course, this is going to make life easier for you to try and avoid that club digging into the turf too much. And the sixth and final option, the MG5 range is the TWW Tiger Woods grind, which he’s worked really closely with the Termade Designers to get his latest preference in terms of what he likes to see in his wedge. Little bit more bounce in the heel here. Slightly different um and new and improved leading edge. So, if you want Tiger’s exact wedge that he’s using, this is the one for you. Very nice. Feels Feels nice. Nice sort of slightly thinner sole. I think that would suit um certainly uh some some more advanced players for sure. [Music] Right. So, that’s giving you a little bit of a clue as to what grind you may choose. Personally, myself, I’m going to go for the SC. The reason being, I like the versatility. I like the fact it’s got the heel and toe relief. Quite a lot of relief at the back there. allows me to play all the different types of shots that I’d like to play around the green, different ways of releasing the club and all the different types of turf conditions I find around the world. So, I’m now going to play five shots with this SC wedge to show you how versatile it can be. And we’re going to start with this basic kind of low quite high spinning chip and run shot. So, going to play this towards the right heel. a little bit of shaft lane, gentle hinge in the back swing, and I’m going to deliver what I call my release one impact. That’s where the butter grip points towards that left hip at impact. But the beauty about this club is the lead edge is going to stay down, and we’re going to hopefully get a low flighted shot with quite a bit of spin. You can see that’s going in low, it’s spinning, and it’s just creeping towards the hole, which is exactly what I’m looking for with this MG5 wedge. You could see the spin there and that low flighted shot. [Music] So now I’m under the green. We’re going for this pin on the left. Not that much green to work with. So I’m going to hit a higher shot here. What I call a release two. Release two is where the butter grip starts working back towards the belt buckle just after the ball. Really using a little bit more of the bounce becomes an indirect contact where we’re looking to brush behind the ball and pop it up. And the benefit of this grind with the shaving at the back there allows me to do that without the club kicking. So ball forward for this shot. Shaft neutral. Really important here by the way. Nice and relaxed grip pressure. Most people are way too tight. Doesn’t allow the club to flow through there. So really light, particularly with my thumbs here. And let’s see if we can get this club sliding under the ball. So really relaxed, really soft, and up there to a couple of feet. But again, I could just feel that club sliding underneath it. No kicking, which is what I’m looking for. Lots of release, no divot at all. It just slid underneath and produced a really nice soft landing shot. [Music] So, now we’ve got a more challenging lie. And remember, there is no such thing as a bad lie, uh, if you get the right technique and, of course, the right equipment. So with this SC grind with the toe relief, I can really put the toe down off this really hard pan bear lie and still get the club working nicely under the ball. So raise the handle on these lies, open the face slightly, but really get that toe down. And because this has got so much camber in the toe here, I can really sit it nicely under the ball still and then still get the contact I need. So standing open for this one. Nice high hands. And then we go out to in use the toe under the ball. You can see how that’s still slid under there really nicely. A ton of spin. I’m using this part of the club face just to get under it from these lies. Okay. So, don’t let these bad lines put you off at all. With the right equipment and the right technique, it really isn’t a problem. [Music] So, now we’re in the rough. Thick rough, lots of debris around and a little bit of moisture. And this is really where the new sawmill grooves and the spin tread grooves really are going to help me get some control out of this uh type of lie. When I’m in the rough and it’s really sitting down, I actually like to lower my hands a bit. So again, I’m getting a b benefit of the of the heel camber and I can go a little bit out to win. Get steeper really out the rough. So it’s out to win, but again with that heel relief, it’s not going to get bouncing too much through the uh into the into the ground there. So, we’re going to go low with the heel, a little bit out, and we still get a nice contact, and we still get a little bit of spin even from lies like that. [Music] So, the fifth shot I’m going to play with my MG5 wedge is a bunker shot. Got nice depth of sand there, nice soft sand, and it’s around about a 20 yard bunker shot. Benefit of this SC grind for me is it’s got this nice rounding at the back, which means it’s going to want to release through the sand really nicely. Get the sand working the ball out for that awkward distance. So, let’s give that a go. Like to get nice and low in the bunker. Hands nice and low. Lots of release. Really keep turning to really try and keep your chest move moving through on these on these bunker shots. Let’s give it a go. So, we can see it splashes out there really easily. down there towards the hole. What I really like here is you see how the divot has got the same depth from front to back. It hasn’t got too steep. It hasn’t dug in. Partially to my technique, obviously, but because it has that rounding on the back, it helps it keep uh working the sound nice and shallow through there, which is key. So, there is a reason why the best players in the world are putting this MG5 in the bag. The feel is exceptional. It’s the feel that you need to experience for yourself. There are a number of grind options which I’ve gone through, but I really recommend you go and find your local retailer, local pro, and really make sure you’re going to go and have a fitting so you can find out which is best for you. And hopefully you’ll put these into your bag and really get the benefit of these forged MG5 wedges.