Refitting wedges meant opening five brands’ official pages one at a time: Titleist Vokey SM11, TaylorMade MG5, Callaway Opus SP+, PING s259, and Cleveland RTZ. All five are each brand’s current 2026 line — the actual options on the shelf right now.
Laying the five side by side, one pattern stood out: how much of the lineup each brand actually publishes on its own official spec page varies a lot brand to brand. That’s the subject of this piece; the specific combo tables for each brand are covered separately.
1. Lowest loft differs by brand
Collecting the lowest published loft across the five lines: Vokey SM11 goes lowest at 44°, followed by PING s259 and Cleveland RTZ at 46°, then MG5 and Opus SP+ at 48°.
At the high end, Cleveland RTZ runs all the way to 64° (ADAPT grind), the widest range of the five.
One more point worth flagging on the high end: Cleveland RTZ and Callaway Opus SP+ — two different brands — both carry a fixed 64° lie angle across every loft. That convergence is real and confirmed on both brands’ official US spec tables, but no manufacturer explains why. Read it as an observation, not an interpretation neither brand has offered.
2. Generation check — is what’s on the shelf actually current
Before comparing lineups, the first thing worth confirming is whether what’s sold right now is actually the current generation. Vokey is SM11 (previous: SM10), MG5 (previous: MG4), Opus SP+ (previous: Opus SP, a two-piece design), PING s259 (previous: s159), and Cleveland RTZ are each brand’s current line.
Cleveland is the exception here. Whether RTZ’s predecessor is the RTX6 ZipCore could not be officially confirmed in this research. The other four brands had their previous generation confirmed through official sources; only Cleveland’s is left blank. Even where a shop describes a wedge as “new,” it’s worth confirming the generation label directly.
Generation matters because loft coverage and disclosed specs can shift again with each new release. This comparison is a snapshot based on the SM11 / MG5 / Opus SP+ / s259 / RTZ generation as of this research, and the picture should be re-checked once the next generation arrives.
3. Spec-sheet completeness varies by brand
| Line | Confirmed predecessor |
|---|---|
| Vokey SM11 | SM10 |
| TaylorMade MG5 | MG4 |
| Callaway Opus SP+ | Opus SP (two-piece design) |
| PING s259 | s159 |
| Cleveland RTZ | Not officially confirmed (RTX6 ZipCore, unverified) |
Generation Check — Is What’s on the Shelf Current — Four of five confirmed against a named predecessor; Cleveland is the exception. Even where a shop labels a wedge “new,” confirming the generation directly is worth doing first.
Beyond loft range, the five brands differ in how much they publish on their official spec pages. Some list full combo tables covering grind, bounce, lie, length, and swingweight for every loft. Others publish loft as essentially the only field, with grind options or numeric spec tables thin or absent.
Vokey SM11 stood out as the most complete: all 27 combos appear directly on its official page, with no gaps to work around. We could not confirm why disclosure varies this much by brand — no official statement from any manufacturer addressed it directly — but the difference in what’s published, independent of performance, was consistent across the five.
Checking Cleveland’s and Callaway’s US official sites directly resolved what we’d flagged earlier as missing: Cleveland RTZ (us.dunlopsports.com) publishes lie angle flat at 64° across every loft, length running from 36″ at 46°, down to 35.75″ at 48°, 35.5″ at 54–56°, and 35.25″ at 58–64°, and swingweight of D3 (46°, 48°), D4 (50°, 52°), and D5 (54–64°). Callaway Opus SP+ (callawaygolf.com) likewise publishes lie angle flat at 64°, length of 35.25″ at 54–56° and 35.00″ at 58–60°, and swingweight of D5 across every loft on the steel-shaft build (D0 on graphite). Both are US-site figures — the earlier Korean-market gap (§6 disclosure note in each brand’s individual review) may still apply regionally.
4. Overlaying the loft ranges into one grid
| Spec | Cleveland RTZ | Callaway Opus SP+ |
|---|---|---|
| Lie angle | 64° flat, every loft | 64° flat, every loft |
| Length range | 36in (46°) to 35.25in (58-64°) | 35.25in (54-56°) to 35.00in (58-60°) |
| Swingweight | D3 to D5 by loft | D5 (steel) across every loft |
US Official-Site Specs — Two Brands Share a Fixed Lie Angle — Confirmed directly on Cleveland (us.dunlopsports.com) and Callaway official pages. Both brands converge on a fixed 64° lie angle, but no manufacturer explains why — read as an observation, not an interpretation.
Laying all five lines’ loft coverage across the 46°–64° range side by side, Cleveland RTZ fills the entire span, while other lines cluster more narrowly around the mid-to-high lofts most golfers actually carry.
The blanks in a grid like this are arguably more useful than the filled cells — they show which combinations exist at all. This table shows loft availability only; whether the same loft matches across bounce and grind as well needs a separate check, which belongs in each brand’s individual review.
5. Who this comparison is useful for
Useful for golfers comparing wedge specs across brands before narrowing to one, since loft range and spec-sheet completeness aren’t equal across the five.
Less useful if you’ve already committed to one brand and only need that brand’s own combo table — the individual brand reviews go deeper on that. Also less useful if you only care about a single loft and not grind selection, since the “who’s useful for” section in each individual review addresses fit at that level of detail.
6. What we could not confirm
| Item | Status |
|---|---|
| Why disclosure completeness differs by brand | No manufacturer statement addressed this |
| Whether RTZ’s predecessor is the RTX6 ZipCore | Unconfirmed |
| Manufacturer distance/spin claims | Unverifiable, not cited |
What Could Not Be Confirmed — Left blank rather than filled in. Vokey SM11 discloses its full 27-combo table on its official page; others publish considerably less.
- Why disclosure completeness differs so much brand to brand — no manufacturer statement addressed this directly.
- Whether RTZ’s predecessor is the RTX6 ZipCore — unconfirmed.
- Manufacturer distance/spin claims — unverifiable, so not cited.
In one line
Overlaying five current wedge lines, loft range and spec-sheet completeness aren’t equal across brands — Vokey SM11 discloses its full 27-combo table, while others publish considerably less on their official pages. That gap is worth checking before assuming any two lines are directly comparable.
Every chart here was built directly, and every number comes from confirmed official sources. Anything we could not confirm was left blank.
Sources
- Official spec pages for five 2026 wedge lines — Titleist Vokey SM11, TaylorMade MG5, Callaway Opus SP+, PING s259 and Cleveland RTZ.
The pattern this piece reports is about disclosure: how much of its own lineup each brand publishes varies widely.
No archived URLs are recorded for these sources in the original research. Items the source does not publish are named as unconfirmed rather than estimated.
