Takomo Skyforger Wedges: Value Meets Performance

I thoroughly tested Takomo’s Skyforger 101 wedges, and found them to be up to the job, especially for the average player whose wedge game isn’t as precise as a scratch or professional player.

Let’s get this out of the way: I just love the name.

Skyforger.

It sounds like something out of a Star Wars movie. You know, Luke Skyforger, right? Or maybe it’s just descriptive of what you can do with these wedges from Takomo. Forge through the sky, or something like that. 

Or perhaps, the most important takeaway from the name is that these wedges are forged from S20C carbon steel, which means they have a really nice feel at contact, with good feedback. After all, like the very popular and almost cult-like following of the Takomo irons, you’re getting a quality forged head at a really good price – $89 each. So for the budget-minded golfer looking for some quality wedges, these will be really attractive.

My first impression when I took these out of the box was that they looked really clean. Available in four lofts – 48 (pitching wedge), 52 (gap), 56, and 60 degrees – they’re pretty standard and will be a good fit for most players. But they are not really all that customizable, especially since they are available directly to consumers only. 

In addition to them being forged, they are designed with progressively tapered blade thickness, which the company says is designed for players always looking to control their trajectory. The higher lofted wedges, for example, have more weight at the top of the blade to promote more spin and bring the ball flight down a bit. The lower lofts have more weight at the bottom, designed to make full shots easier to play. 

In addition, the faces feature precision-milled grooves with micro-milling in between grooves to help provide more spin to stop the ball on pitch shots of varying distances. 

While I didn’t have the opportunity to put these wedges on a robot, I was able to take them out to the range several times and play a few rounds with them.

I also used a launch monitor with these wedges and compared them to several others I’ve played with over the past couple of years and found the distance comparable to my other wedges (my launch monitor does not measure spin).

I wasn’t wowed by them; they did what wedges are supposed to do. And I wasn’t the least bit disappointed. In fact, I felt like the 60-degree wedge worked exceptionally well out of greenside bunkers. In this case, the Skyforger lob wedge has 12 degrees of bounce as does the 56-degree. (The 48- and 52-degree come with 8 and 10 degrees of bounce respectively). Twelve degrees is also what my gamer has, but the Skyforger, which is weighted at D6, seemed really adept at gliding through the sand and lofting the ball high in the air with a good amount of spin. That alone is a good reason for me to keep this wedge in my bag.

But I also found all the wedges good around the greens, especially if I set up with them using the bounce instead of trying to trap them back in my stance. They worked fine for the latter method as well, but that’s not my go-to shot around the greens generally. They worked well on both tight lies and out of the rough around the greens. They have a bit of a heavy feel with the steel shafts and clubheads, which seemed to make them go through thick grass easier.

On the course I felt like I got plenty of spin and the distance I would expect from each of these lofts. For me that would be around 110 yards or so for the 52-degree, 100 or so for the 56-degree, and around 90 yards with the lob wedge. I was able to confirm that on the launch monitor as well. So they were no longer or shorter, say, than my regular wedges.

As for spin, that’s a little harder to quantify anecdotally. On short pitches, crisp chips, and full shots, the Skyforger wedges produce plenty of spin. Of course, being new, you would expect that.