A heavy, lofted iron with a flange on the bottom, used for hitting the ball out of sand.
〔高尔夫〕铁头球棒，障碍球棒
Example sentencesExamples
I was just knocking it out with a sand wedge and hit a good shot, but lost the ball in mid-air and didn't see it come down.
After pushing his drive into the rough, the former Walker Cup star played his second shot safely up the fairway with a sand wedge, leaving a simple approach to the green.
That's a problem for many golfers: The gap between the pitching wedge and the sand wedge is too large.
All of us at one time or another have looked down at a sand wedge's face and seen a shape-shifting cobra's head.
Nelson had a chance to force a play-off with a birdie on the final hole but pulled a sand wedge into a green-side bunker on his way to dropping a shot.
Definition of sand wedge in US English:
sand wedge
nounsænd wɛdʒ
Golf
A heavy, lofted iron with a flange on the bottom, used for hitting the ball out of sand.
〔高尔夫〕铁头球棒，障碍球棒
Example sentencesExamples
That's a problem for many golfers: The gap between the pitching wedge and the sand wedge is too large.
Nelson had a chance to force a play-off with a birdie on the final hole but pulled a sand wedge into a green-side bunker on his way to dropping a shot.
I was just knocking it out with a sand wedge and hit a good shot, but lost the ball in mid-air and didn't see it come down.
After pushing his drive into the rough, the former Walker Cup star played his second shot safely up the fairway with a sand wedge, leaving a simple approach to the green.
All of us at one time or another have looked down at a sand wedge's face and seen a shape-shifting cobra's head.