TaylorMade Hi-Toe 4 wedges: What you need to know | Golf Equipment: Clubs, Balls, Bags [Video]

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: The TaylorMade Hi-Toe 4 wedge continues the company’s larger-faced, high center-of-gravity design with the same original mission: Pushing mass higher helps to produce a lower-flighted, higher-spinning design. This upgrade offers more turf-interaction enhancing sole grinds (five), augmented friction elements between the grooves to improve spin and confidence-inspiring full-face grooves starting at lofts 54 degrees and higher.

PRICE: $180. Five grinds, lofts range from 50 to 60 degrees. Available for pre-order Aug. 14.

1. Higher purpose.The Hi-Toe 4, like its predecessors, uses the pronounced shaping to shift the center of gravity higher and toward the toe. A higher center of gravity will help to produce shots with more spin. On the Hi-Toe 4, that weight pad in the upper toe section is more distinct, enhanced by the way the back of the club is thinned out, particularly a section low in back, to create more mass that can be concentrated in the toe pad. …