| The Cleveland Golf CG12 Black Pearl Wedge | | | | "Cleveland" on the sole of the club. It not only |
| combines classic wedge design with advanced | | | | complicates what would otherwise be a fairly clean |
| manufacturing processes. On each CG12 wedge, the | | | | design, but proves difficult to clean with just a towel. |
| grooves are milled to maximum conforming | | | | Technology |
| dimensions using a proprietary CNC mill bit to create | | | | Despite the addition of one to the name, Cleveland's |
| envelope-stretching geometry. To improve shot | | | | CG12 wedges are not successors to the CG11s. In |
| consistency, the new groove geometry was coupled | | | | fact, determining the CG12's parents are difficult: the |
| with an innovative plating process making ZIP | | | | wedges resemble the CG10 and even the revered |
| Grooves Cleveland Golf's most consistent, precise, | | | | 588, but with a bit more of a square leading edge |
| and visible wedge technology to date. | | | | and toe. They're likely updates to the CG10: the |
| The CG12 is available in both chromed and black pearl | | | | CG11s are the forgiving models and the CG10s and |
| finishes. As you can tell by the pictures, I played two | | | | CG12s are for slightly better players. |
| chromed wedges. The chrome versions are quite | | | | We tested: 46°/8° (loft/bounce), 48°/8°, 50° |
| shiny - I often saw hot spots of reflected light | | | | 10°, 52°/10°, 54°/12°, 56°/14°, 58°/12° |
| around my ball when playing on sunny days. The face | | | | and 60°/10° in steel shaft |
| is attractively sandblasted from top to bottom and | | | | Our Test Panel Says: |
| around every groove, resulting in a satin appearance | | | | PROS: Great-spinning wedges, which means great |
| that helps to minimize glare. | | | | control; playability is king, good players have |
| The long hosel and two-ring black and white ferrule | | | | repeating ball flight and ideal trajectory control on full |
| are simple enough, but I wish the same approach had | | | | shots; sufficient feel and feedback to let you know |
| been taken to the rest of the club. The Cleveland | | | | what you're doing; mid-handicappers find these so |
| logo appears on the back of the club, but designers | | | | easy to use; extraction is quick and painless no |
| thought it necessary to include the scripted word | | | | matter the lie. |