TaylorMade MG5 Wedges Review [MG5 vs MG4]

Ryan tests out thew new TaylorMade MG5 Milled Grind 5 wedges comparing against the popular previous MG4 wedges.

In this video Ryan talks through the full product range, insights into the latest updates, the full range of 6 different grinds which offers maximum versatility and details on the aggressive saw mill grooves which aim to provide more spin and increased control.

See how Ryan got on during some oncourse testing at Howley Hall Golf Club in Leeds in a variety of short game situations, how the MG5 wedges compared to the previous MG4 wedges and additional data insights fdollowing some Trackman data analysis.

00:35 Overview
01:55 Short game
05:36 Around the green
09:32 Bunkers
14:20 Trackman data analysis

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Hello there and welcome back to the channel. As you can see, I have more wedges to do some testing of. Tailor Made have just released the new MG5 wedge. Following on from the very, very popular Mil Grind 4, which has been out for a while. Can’t wait to try these. Uh we’re going to talk to you about all of the different features and benefits in a second. But make sure you hit the subscribe button, see loads more content from all of us here at Golf Shake to help you play more and play better. Let’s take a look at these The allnew MG5 wedge offers exceptional soft feel, responsiveness, and versatility. Available in six different grinds, constructed from ultra soft forged carbon steel, and featuring Tailor-Made’s allnew aggressive sawmill grooves for more spin and control. The MG5 wedges are designed to help you unlock your full short game potential. The new sawmill grooves have been redesigned with ultra tight tolerances, steeper walls, and sharper radi. The grooves produce more spin for maximum control on every single shot. MG5 wedges utilize spin tread technology and a raw face finish to help you maintain more spin and control, even in wet conditions. Just like tire treads keep your car connected to the road, spin tread technology redirects water away from the club face and increases friction with the ball at impact. The six different grind options offer maximum versatility for every player’s short game. From low bounce, the SC grind, the SB grind, the SX grind, and the HB, there is something for everybody. So, with all those different grinds to choose from, I’ve got a bag full here, and there are examples of every single grind in this bag. So, what I’m going to do is I’m going to show you kind of what each grind does and why you might choose that to help your short game. So, we’re going to start with a 52. I’ve got 15 to that flag that’s on the green there. So, it should be pretty much spot on for this. Um, yeah, let’s hit some. I’ve also got the Trackman set up, so we can have a bit of a chat about the numbers as well. At the end of the video, I’ve also done some testing already with um with a 58 degree wedge where I’ve hit some with a brand new MG4 versus a brand new MG5. And we’ll have a bit of a look at the difference between the spin, launch, etc. of those towards the end of the video. But for now, let’s hit this gap wedge. Like I say, 115 yards. Look behind the ball. Really nice shape. Um nice and rounded. Uh yeah, I really really like it to be honest. The way it sits behind the golf ball looks really good. Um, let’s see what it’s like through the turf. Very good. Feels really, really good. Nice high flight that one. Yeah, it’s pretty much landed probably about 5t short of where I wanted it to and just spun back a little bit. Let’s just have a look at that. Yes, it’s landed 113. So, it’s a few few yards short of my target. Um, but really nice flight. stayed nice and straight through the air and it looked the flight looked quite spinny when I hit it as well. I was actually expecting it to launch a little bit lower than that, but um yeah, it was really nice flight. It’s pretty much gone the distance I want. Um let’s just try another one from here as well. See if we can get it back to that flag. I’ve hit that a bit harder. Hopefully it gets there. Yeah, it’s landed pretty much pin high. about 15 ft left of the hole there. But yeah, it’s kind of right on the limit of me getting 52 all the way to that flag I think today. But um yeah, flight very high actually. Um I quite like it. It was coming in obviously there’s no real wind today. It’s nice and warm as well, so we’d expect a few more yards out of our pitch shots, but and 52 isn’t a loft I’d generally use. 50 is what I’d have in my set. Um and I can hit that up to about 120. So yeah, it’s kind of some somewhere around that sort of yardage that we’ve got here, but feels great through the turf. The divots are nice and consistent. As you can see, the striking was okay. It’s taken a bit off the golf ball there, as you’d imagine with new wedges where it’s just nicked a bit off the cover of the ball there. So, we’re probably going to have some uh slightly wounded golf balls when we get up there. But yeah, it looks great. Feels really good. So, in the five different uh sole grinds and bounces that we have here, there are some that are more suited to your kind of full swing shots, like your your standard bounce generally is pretty good for your gap wedges going into your sand wedges. When we get into the more higher lofted end of your set, that’s when some of these grinds and bounces will really play more of a part. So, what I’ve done here is set up like a little 40 50 yard pitch shot towards that flag up there. and we’re going to use each of these different grinds, talk through kind of what we’d expect with them, and hopefully we see that when we hit some of these shots. Now, you know, we’ve got quite a a baked hard fairway here, so potentially some of your lower bounce options might be better. We’re not going to be able to take a hell of a lot of a divot here. Obviously, we’ve had some very dry, warm weather in the UK over the last few months, and it’s left a lot of golf courses with patches like this in places. So, I thought it was quite a good place to have a bit of a look. Now, obviously, the higher the bounce, generally better off softer turf, uh maybe out of bunkers as well, which we’re going to hit some bunker shots in a minute. The lower bounce should be better the sort of firmer the lie that you’re playing it from. So, we’ll start with that low bounce in the 60 that I’ve got here. And we’ll just play a shot towards this flag and see how it reacts. So, like I say, there’s not a hell of a lot of grass there. I probably can take a little bit of a divot, but not much of one. Um, and yeah, let’s just see how it how it sort of goes through the turf. Pretty good. So, I’ve picked that straight off the top. Load. Wow, that’s got backspin on it from a 50 yard pitch there. That was really, really spun quickly. But you can see it suits that kind of shallow um sort of delivery position, which I was trying to be a bit shallower through that and kind of cut across it a bit and get a bit more spin. Take a no divot because it’s pretty impossible to take one. Um, but yeah, absolutely loaded with spin. Very, very impressive. When we move up through the grinds, end. So, we’ve gone from low bouncing there. We’re going to go with the two of the newer ones here. So, we got the X and the C. So, I’m going to go C grind here, which has got nine bounce on it. So, a little bit more than we just saw in that low bounce, and see what this is like for this. I think this could be quite a versatile grind for many of you who want to play a variety of different shots from around the greens. You might want to open the face up a bit because we’ve got this C-shaped grind on it as SC would indicate um with a bit more heel and toe relief. So, let’s try and play a shot from here with this. Yeah, certainly can be a bit more aggressive with it. That’s good as well. Loads of spin again. Yeah, it’s about 15 ft from the hole. But yeah, I could feel like I can hit down on this a little bit more and and feel like I can be a bit more aggressive into the turf. When we go into that X grind, we’ve got a much higher bounce in that. So, in 11° now, wider sole, but still a bit of beveling off at the back there. Let’s see what this is like when we take it through the turf. Yeah, very nice as well, to be honest. Really nice fly. Got it right back to the flag. Loads of spin on it. Again, very, very impressive. So, yeah, that X grind is really, really good in that 58. And again, with that bit more bounce, this could be better out of bunkers as well. So, when we move into we’ve got the standard uh standard bounce now in 10°, obviously a bit more of a full width sort of sole as well. Let’s see what this is like. Yeah, good. Again, not quite as sort of zipped off the turf as we saw with um the X grind just now, but still really, really nice shot. Loads of spin on it as well. It’s very impressive how much spin I’m getting from, you know, very low club head speed going into these shots. You know, a 50 yard pitch shot. I wouldn’t ever really expect it to be spinning backwards. And that particularly the first one with a low bounce was just absolutely ripping back when it landed on the green. So, and now we’ve gone to our highest bounce option in 12. Okay, we still got a bit of heel and toe relief there, so it’s not too bad, but much more sole width and obviously a bit more bounce. So, may play slightly different. Yeah, again, nice low flight in there, though. Loads of spin, really good stopping power. So, all very, very good, but very, you can really feel through the turf the subtle differences that you get with each of these different grinds. So, for me, I’d probably want something that was quite versatile. So, I do like to open the face a bit and particularly out of bunkers, I might want that. So, something like the C grind might work quite well for me. Or even that X I thought was quite impressive when I hit that shot there. For me, the low bounce one, I don’t know. I’d probably get a bit worried over certain shots with that, particularly when we get in the bunker in a second. But, we’ll we’ll play a few out there and talk about the sort of pros and cons of that as well. But from these kind of fuller pitch shots, if you’re that kind of player who does take a big divot, if you hit down on it a lot, the higher bounce the better. If you’re someone who’s quite shallow and picks it off the top, the lower bounce the better. But we’ve also got those sole shapes and grinds to help whether you like to open the face. If you play it always square, there’s different ones in there to help you as well. So now we’re in the bunker. We’re going to see what each one of these grinds does out of here. I’m going to start with the highest bounce. So this is the one that should be best out of bunker. So, for those of you that really struggle with bunker shots and really need some help, this HB option with 12° of bounce on there should get a bit more uh mass underneath the golf ball and help pop the ball up. So, let’s play a couple of shots here with the different grinds. So, we’ve obviously got quite a tight flag here, so it’s not an easy shot anyway, but yeah, goes through the sand quite easily. Pops it out. I’m probably going to struggle to get this anywhere near this flag from this position, but um yeah, I played that quite nicely to be honest. Popped up really, really easily. You can see it takes plenty of sand with it as well and really throws that ball up and out of the bunker. Right, we’re going to move through now to the standard bounce option. This is probably one that’s going to suit the vast majority of players out there. So, let’s play a few with this. Yep, pretty good again. came out nicely. Pretty much identical to the first one that we’ve hit. Like I say, it’s going to be hard to get near this flag, but yeah, certainly takes plenty of sand with it as well. Pretty consistent depth um to that of the high bounce when we move into the X. So, remember this one we played quite a nice shot from the fairway there a few seconds ago, but a bit more sole width there. We have got a bit of trailing edge relief there as well. So, let’s see what this is like out of the bunker. Yeah, pretty good. Came out nicely. Again, hitting the down slope and just running past. But again, easy to get through the sand, easy to pop it out. Very, very nice wedge to use from there as well. Starting to get a bit lower in terms of the bounce. So, we’ve got the SC now with 9° of bounce in here. So, we’d expect this to kind of cut into the sand a little bit more. Yeah, certainly does that bit more spin on it as well. So, we’ve got a bit more kind of control over that shot. Um, this is probably the grind I would gravitate towards for a for a bunker club for me because it’s got that versatility of being able to open the face when you um when you’re playing bunker shots, but also when you chip in, it’s got a bit more relief there as well. And let’s try the low bounce option as well, which probably isn’t the one for bunkers. We’ve got this obviously leading edge bevel there as well as the trailing edge and a very small kind of sole width on there too. Let’s see what this is like. Yeah, it’s probably Go on, get in there. That’ll do. So, yeah, for this type of bunker shot that’s so close to the edge, it’s actually worked out really well. I think overall for the most bunker shots, I think this would probably be the least effective. However, if they keep doing that, could change my mind. That really shows us quite a lot about the kind of sole grinds and and what difference they make through the sand. I think if you’re that type of player who your only objective is getting it out of the sand, then the higher bounce options are definitely better. If you’re someone who’s that bit more precise and wants to play different types of bunker shot, whether you like playing them high and low and with spin and things like that, then obviously the lower bounce options are going to fit into there. What I would say is throughout this entire wedge family and all of the different grinds available of wedges that I’ve tried, there’s there’s less of a difference between the high bounce to low bounce in this family than certainly I found. We we did the Opus SP wedges very recently as well. Huge difference between the high bounce options in there like the wider grind and the really low bounce. Certainly less so in the tailor made options, but you can obviously see the differences in the sole. But when playing with them out here, I mean, this low bounce at eight is not particularly low. You know, you’ve seen some down as low as four and six uh in some other brands. So, you’ve still got that bit of playability and still that bit of forgiveness with it, but with that sort of sole kind of camber there, particularly the leading edge where you can get it really tight in behind the golf ball. And as I’ve shown, normally if I was to use a low bounce wedge out of a bunker, I’d be struggling to get any sort of control really. it just digs into the sand and doesn’t really go very far. I’ve actually hit about 10 or 12 shots with this now and it’s probably out of all the wedges I’ve tried, probably the best one from this sort of distance. So, yeah, very very impressed with that. But yeah, obviously we’d always want you to go and get fitted for wedges. Um, make sure that you go to someone who knows what they’re talking about when it comes to lofts, grinds, bounces, can really have a look at your short game and make sure that you get the right choice. Right. So, what I’m going to do now is head over to uh look at some of the data that we got from earlier where I tried a MG4 wedge, brand new one, um versus a brand new MG5. So, let’s take a look at that. So, let’s take a bit of a look at the difference between MG4 and MG5. I got a brand new MG4 wedge out, so very comparable in terms of the condition of these two clubs. And it was around 50 yards, 55 yards I was hitting these pitches uh when I was measuring this data. We can see there’s a lot of similarities. So the dynamic loft I’ve delivered um the uh club speed pretty much matched up as well. But we can see some quite significant differences. So if we look at the height straight away. So MG5 um peaks at 21 ft as an average um which is you know 4T lower than we’re seeing with uh MG4. And then the spin is the biggest difference right? So 7,700 as as an average versus 74 pretty much. So, you know, over just over 300 RPM difference on such a short shot is very, very good. And that certainly backs up what we’ve seen out on the golf course when we’ve seen how much spin these have when they actually land on the green. Very, very impressive. You see the launch angle’s that bit lower as well, which is what we’d expect and kind of how these wedges have been designed. Um, and yeah, it does exactly what Tailor Made is saying it should do. And those kind of additions of the technology on the face and the groove pattern have really improved the spin and control that you get with these wedges as well. So hopefully you’ve enjoyed that video. It’s been great getting out on the golf course and testing them on the Trackman. They’re lovely, lovely wedges. And to be honest, I think one of or two of them may find their way into my golf bag towards the end of this season. So much did I like them. Love the forge feel. Love the different sole grinds. Although, like I said previously, I found very subtle differences between each one. Certainly not as kind of polarized as some of the brands out there, but very very good. I love the um addition of the new um the X and the C in there as well. I think I think they work quite nicely. Um certainly not played the C grind in this wedge before. I know it has been available uh previously in different models, but yeah, certainly very very playable, versatile around the greens and yeah, can’t wait to do a bit more testing. But what I would say is go and try these wedges yourself. Get properly fitted. Find someone either at Tailor-Made Demo Day or your local PGA Pro who knows about these different grinds and can kind of point you in the right direction of the ones that are going to help your short game. And if you got any questions, pop them in the comments section below.