I finally got my hands on the new TaylorMade MG5 wedges—and in this video, I put them to the test in every way possible. From tight lies and tricky chips to full swing shots and bunker escapes, I give you a full breakdown of how these wedges perform in real on-course situations.
🔹 Clubs Used: TaylorMade MG5 Wedges
🔹 Shots Tested:
Precision chip shots
Awkward lies
Greenside bunker shots
Full swing approach shots
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Hello everyone. Welcome back to another video. Welcome back to the channel. My name is James Ward, head professional here at Juice Bit Golf Club. Today we’ve got a full product review. I’ve been sent my wedges from Tailor Made and they are the brand new mil grind five wedges. They look we have done a first look video so you can go back and look at that. But here we’re going to dive into a full review of what uh the wedges I’ve chosen, what they are, a little bit on the technology. We’re going to hit some shots. We got the launch monitor as well. We’re going to really see how they are feeling and performing as well. So, this the wedges are, if you’ve watched my videos in the past, the wedges are exactly the same as I’ve sort of settled before. So, in the 50°, the first one, it’s got dynamic gold X100 shaft that matches my irons. It’s the SB like a standard bounce 8 n degree of bounce 50°ree. This just sort of sets up very very normal normal sole on it because I will just be hitting normal shots with this and if I was pitching there would be no manipulation to the face just be a normal bump and run. In the 54 degree we’ve gone for 10 bounce in the SC grind. So this is for more um firm to medium conditions. So that would be predominately what I’m playing. I’m not really buying them for the time of year. Obviously, we are going into softer ground, but this is more for the summer months as well. So, in this 54, you can see the angle and the sole at the bottom there. So, on the grind, you can get a nice little bit of forward press there and it still be sitting nice to the ground. And then also, there’s able for a little bit of manipulation on that as well, which for my 54 degree is exactly what I am wanting. 58 has got the wedge shaft as well, same as the 54. the 58s I’ve gone the low well the LB grind eight degree bounce once again. So this is for firmer conditions um and shallower divots because again that’s how I’d want to play and I just decided this from the Tailor May website. So very good tool for picking your wedges. We can see that there very similar to 54. We can get a nice little forward plus for press for playing normal shots and then a little bit of manipulation uh there as well. So if we dive into a little bit of technology from the wedges, the MG5 are now from a fully forged soft carbon steel which is new for this uh mill grind range to improve feel. They use sawmill grooves which are going to increase spin especially in wet conditions. And as we’ve seen before, this is what wedge companies are trying to do now. It’s increasing spin in in like the wetter consider conditions. Some have got a coating and these have got the extra like grooves on grooves. The faces have spin tread once again to channel moisture to help maintain the friction for less ideal turf conditions. So your wories bit wetter on a morning stuff like that. Um six grind options. You’ve got the SB, the SC, the SX, HB, LB, and TWW. Like I said, get on the website, look at them, see what sort of goes uh for your game on that as well. They’ll all to suit different swing conditions and everything there as well. I think compared to the MG4, the changes are smaller rather than like radical changes. The improvements are in field spin and wetter conditions and like grind refinements. So, it’s it’s not like massive massive changes. It’s just small ones that’ll hopefully make a big difference. Right, let’s hit some shots. First sort of look and feel the wedges. I mean, the they’re made beautifully. like the grip option as well. This Z grip uh feels fantastic that I’ve got on there. Oh, that’s a bit of stoppage. Good. We’ve got we’ve got got the GC quad. Although, you know, for a lot of these short game shots, it’s quite hard to see. You can certainly see it biting. And I think really it’s it’s more of a I mean, because the wedges are going to be like good. We know that. And I think it’s more like if you can if you can get the wedges and get them for your, you know, personal how you want to play. This 58’s looking, you know, really good. It’s already given me confidence to chip behind the ball. Whether that might be like short ones or in this uneven like we’re in October now, so it can be a little bit of like nasty ground where you’re getting a bit of like worm casts, stuff like that, which doesn’t make chipping very easy. It’s lovely. You can see the I mean it’s a new it’s a new fresh wedge out of the packet so we know it’s going to spin a lot. I think you can put your trust in these top wedges. It’s a poor shot from me. But this is it. What’s the you know the 58? It’s for shallower. That’s how I like to play my shots. You know, I like to use that bottom of the club face to sort of chip to these first couple of flags. That’s what I’d be using. And then, can we, you know, can you manipulate it if you need one that’s really high? The answer is yes. So, you can feel that sole underneath the club if you wanted to. There. Again, not a shot I’d play certainly from this distance, but we can if we need to open that face up and create that up there nicely. Feels good off the face. A nice feel. You can sort of see the wedges and the in the golf shots sort of reacting and they do look absolutely going to move that fantastic in the bag behind the ball. 2,000 spin. Not really sure really how that would compare, but there’s the here’s the 54. So, probably a wedge that I would wear out using it from here side of the green. But there I’ve attacked it. Oh, nearly gone it in. Then I’ve sort of I felt like I’ve hit the shot. I’ve attacked it. It’s skip and then stop. First bounce. Just caught that spin. So you can see it really working on that little lip out. Keeping that I can do all the shots that I want to do. Put in loft. I just chased on a bit just on the downhill slope. But yeah, they’re really nice. There’s no like glare on them. I know we’re in the shade, but when I use them on the first look because of sort of the color or the finish that it is, there’s no real shine into the sun, which can be quite annoying with some wedges. Yeah, you can you can see that reacting when it hits the green there. Yeah, just beauty. Well pleased. So, we’re going to put these in the bag, use them for a few rounds of a longer one or a bounce. But yeah, so it’s got that it’s got that sort of fierce look to it where it’s going in fast and then the grooves are just sort of stopping it. I do think pull that left. That’s my usual usual sort of bad shot. I do think though it’s like a I don’t like like they’ve said and tail will say this it’s little changes rather than massive ones cuz kind of don’t think you can a lot of the time now but you know small changes to it which is tricky to measure unless you’re doing a proper full on test like more more spin in the wet will hopefully that we’re going to just go now and chip. That’s the 50. And that’s where I’d use it. Obviously, I would use this as a full swing as well, which you can see that, you know, behind the ball there that this sort of SB. Don’t know if it means standard bounce would be then great to swing some full shots. It’s just a standard bounce there. Looks good behind there. It’s not as well just a normal groove. It feels like it just goes into your set set of irons and normal, but then also nice for when you want to come and play that. For me, it’d be just a bump and run bounce bounce and there again. So, yeah, first look on the chip shots. There’s loads of spin on them. Not sure how it’s relating onto the GC quad if I’m honest, but we can see that it’s usually like bounce bounce and it’s stopping right where you’d want to. That’s gives me the confidence. We can go at chip shots, sort of fire them in fast and you know that they’re going to stop as well. We’ve come for a little bit of a longer chip shot maybe into a pitch but from the longer grass. So I think this, you know, the reason why I like this bounce, the reason why I like this bounce on my 58, this LB, uh, this sole, sorry, this LB is cuz well, you can see the bounce at either side trailing edge as well. But it’s for shallower conditions, but even like this shot, if I wanted to come down steeper, it sort of right creates a little bit of a divot. It’s going to hold it. Oh, what? And just allows you that backspin 3,000. So, it’s still spinning a little bit even when we’re putting it into these sort of lies when you can sort of hardly see the ball. So, we can’t actually hit the ball. And it’s, you know, it’s working. And they’re two of the best chip shots I’ve ever in my life. So, it’s we can really sit these down. And what I think you can do with this is it’s given me is like control. So, like I said, two I mean, I’ve hit two beauties there, but they’ve both gone to There we go. A little bit behind it. Can’t blame the wedge for that bad boy. We are trying to make these as ming as possible. What I was just about to say before I duffed that is that they’ve sort of landed in the same spot and they’re sort of running out the same as well. So it’s creating that I mean the GC quad aren’t even picking these up. That’s how bad this lie is there. Like that. If we go a little bit further now into a pitch shot, you know, stopping within six foot there. That’s nice. These could be, you know, really causing to give yourself a lot of confidence. And that one maybe shot out a little bit, maybe because of the grass or something. That stopped up straight away. So, we can we can see the wedges are working just like many other competitors. You know what I mean? Not saying here that this is we’ve we’ve discovered something amazing, but it’s allowing me to it, you know, very good shots that are stopping very quick there from a bad light. Okay, we’ve got a wetish practice screen, but it’s not like soaked. It’s not like a winter one. Yeah, just stopping again. And I’ve got my 54 as well, which would be another club that I would use from here. Let’s get it a bit sat down. When they sit down, the GC quads not picking them up. Going a little lower, but running towards that hole again. Just never ever chip in. I think last time I chipped in with about 13 sat down. I sort of overshot it a bit but still stopped run out a little probably the club that I’m using would use more loft for this. It sort of sat down a little bit again. I think we can see from there they’re coming out of the grass very very like consistently when I’m hitting them like they are they’re not shooting they’re not coming up well one was a duff but so they are giving you sort of consistent flight it’s gone a bit right with that one it’s just leaking down that hill yeah we can see some nice nice some nice shots you can see it working. We know that they’re going to spin. They’re spinning as we swing it a bit further and a bit harder as well. I think the one thing that I’m most impressed with is like the consistency of the strike, especially when we’re in this sort of deeper grass. I mean, it all right, it’s not too bad, but definitely something that you could get that could give you a bit of you could get a little bit anxious looking at it. You could be concentrating more on the lie than the golf shot causing bad shots to come in. I think here you can you can have that trust that these are going to come out very very similar each time. Right. So, we’ve come in the bunker to see how they feel. We’ve got a little bit of wet sand here today, but you got the the 58s. And I always like to have this on my bunker thing is that trailing edge. It’s a bit of a, you know, we’ve got eight eight bounce on the front and then that trailing edge is what I always like to have because we can really sort of see and work that. That’s what we’re going to get today. Huge sort of diver. But still, we know we would have wet sand quite a lot as well. But yeah, we came backwards that when I want it to spin a little bit. Just forward press the hands a little to start like that. Just gets that feeling of wanting to just hinge it early like there. Just a little little hinge. Little bit of ball there. But you can see it coming back like that. The wedge itself. Let’s move on to out of the sand a little bit onto the sort of footprint. Yeah, the wedge itself there. We’re getting it to a a nice distance. Usual distance where I’d want to get it once again. Can Can we work it? Can we play one a bit shorter? Yes. There. That see it’s just glided underneath that. And I know on the foot it’s not the powdery sand that we’re maybe used to under what we’ll call normal conditions. I’m moving out of shot here. So there, way behind it. Way behind it on there. We’re going to, you know, we’re catching that not perfect and it’s getting the ball out, giving that margin for error, that forgiveness. Same on the 54. A little bit of, you know, trailing edge giving you that help again for something if it were we want that a little lower and forward. Certainly for this shot, chasing up that hill. Yeah. Once again, just feels easy and therefore can make you more confident. There’s the spinner just coming back using that ground once again using that sand using the bottom of the club to just get under it. This is the 54. So, we wanted to go a little further. I mean, maybe you partly down to me as well. I’m a quite confident bunker player, but we need the clubs to match and we can that’s it. And I’ve just I’ve chosen this from the website really. I’ve got a few in the shop, but my shop stock is mainly SB. So, not so we did like the first look on that, but when trying it, I just I like that. I like low bounce in my 58. Well, low, no, not low bounce, eight bounce. So, still some bounce on it, but I like that difference. So, my 58 allowing manipulation. I like the 54 sole to allow me to manipulate as well because that’s what I’m going to do i.e. now or you know when we’re wanting that high shot [Music] in there as well as well we can play it lower as well cuz that that is a popular shot that I would play as well with that and then full shots which I’m going to hit now 50°ree basic standard so SB soul standard looking more like my irons in that but yeah let’s have a look into the full shots my usual yardages and see how they compare to them so full shots to finish. I’m just going to see how they would compare. I’ve got 50° I would say 50° about 115 yards carry is how I would play it. Yeah. So, good strike. Exactly how I’d want that to feel when hitting it. 104 carry. What a good strike to be fair as well. Not the best strike that one. Maybe a bit further. 108 carry. So maybe might have my yardages wrong here. One more. Oh, we’re just getting further and further. 107. So maybe around 110. This is what we could might have to measure again. Is my yardages 54. We’re looking around 100 yards. 54 degree. Maybe a little thin. It’s like easy to Yeah, there we go. 99 yards to that 50. And I think sometimes you can do this if you know when you’re practicing or if there’s a waiter to just check them yardage because if you get them wrong and that’s enough to cause a bad shot 98 yards. So we’re around that maybe just short of 100. But we’re not going to play it that we’re not that specific. But the main thing for this video and test is that if we needed to hit a full shot who slip went in the duff, the main thing is is we are hitting them uh nicely and available to you know if we needed a swing. So this one 85 yard 58 just over them trees. this. Well, no, I would I would potentially actually hit full shots with it. Yeah, there 84 Z. What did I say? 85. And then it’ be just So, this is nice to hit full ones with say if we were just hitting a pitch shot to go 70 yards. I said 70 just short. Just short, but it bounced and went to two foot actually hit a tree actually. So then there and then maybe 50 yard pitch shot. 49 49. Let’s leave it there. They are sort of giving me that confidence with it. But been working on my gear as well. So that that goes towards it. As we can see from the conditions, we’re quite soft and they’ve been nice in that very dirty wedges. But yeah, that has been my new mil grind five wedges. Joe will be hearing more of it. I’m going to play with them for a few weeks and uh report back and see how we’ve been sort of playing with them, how they’re feeling. But, you know, first few hits today, chipping good, bad lie, chipping good, uh, seems to give you a consistent flight, which is like these fine little changes are going to give you. That’s what Taylor made claim as well. Uh, the spin off the wet is good. You can see that spin and the ball sort of gripping in all conditions there. Nice out the bunker. The grinds are brilliant. Brilliant way to for you to go and have a look and see what you want to use as well. They are available to demo as well. So if you’re a member of Juy Golf Club or local more than more than welcome to come and use mine or borrow the demos we’ve got in the shop and then full shots there which you’re always going to test your wedge as well cuz we need them. They’re brilliant on that as well. All round great wedge price 179 for a wedge. We’re getting up there now. What do you think to that? Leave me any comments below what you think of these wedges. Uh, and if you want any questions about the wedge as well, um, drop them below and I will get back to them as well. Guys, thank you very much for watching. Once again, take care. We’ll see you next time.
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Brilliant video