Black Satin Cleveland Smart Sole 4 Wedges – Key Takeaways

What’s new with the new Black Satin Cleveland Smart Sole 4 wedges? The answer, like beauty, is skin deep. It’s a new PVD black satin finish for Cleveland’s current iteration of specialty wedges.

From a tech standpoint, there isn’t anything new to talk about. But these silly-easy-to-use wedges do tend to be a tad polarizing. For some reason, super-wide-soled chippers or sand irons really get into the craw of the GET LESSONS crowd. A very small portion of this article will address the new finish, but the rest of it?

Well, the pot is just sitting there begging to be stirred.

Black Satin Cleveland Smart Sole 4 Wedges

Since its introduction in 2013, the Cleveland Smart Sole wedge lineup has been on a three-year lifecycle. That means we likely won’t see Smart Sole 5 until this time next year. And Cleveland, like other OEMs, loves giving its products a late lifecycle kick in the pants with a new finish.

PVD gets a bad rap but don’t get the idea it’ll wear off after a couple of range sessions. We’ve said it before but it bears repeating: PVD—Physical Vapor Deposition—may not be as premium as Diamond Black Metal or QPQ but it does last.

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