“Golfsmith house-brand wedge with a cult value following; year is approximate and stock shaft model is unconfirmed.”
Snake Eyes traces to Denver clubmaker Eddie Lyons in the mid-1960s, building persimmon woods and forged irons before Golfsmith International acquired the brand in the late 1990s and folded it into its in-house design shop under CTO Jeff Sheets. The 600 Series wedges, sold through the 2000s as 600W (wide sole), 600XC (forged) and 600B variants, were Golfsmith's mid-market forged answer to the Cleveland/Titleist wedge duopoly: a large, confidence-inspiring forged head with a wider sole and gentler bevel than the earlier Snake Eyes Forged wedge, extending the grooves further into the toe for a bigger effective hitting area. It was built and priced to be an honest, sub-$100 wedge sold at Golfsmith retail and mail-order, not a tour product chasing pros.
No tour pedigree, no forum mythology, no scarcity story — it was a Golfsmith house-brand wedge sold at retail alongside better-known OEMs. Today's Golfer and Golf Monthly both reviewed it as a solid, affordable value option, not a standout; it disappeared from shelves when Golfsmith's fortunes declined, and its used value reflects a forgotten mid-2000s commodity, not a collectible.
Fits mid-to-high handicappers who want a simple, no-frills forged wedge for full swings and standard greenside shots at a budget price. Not for a low-handicap player chasing tour-level spin consistency or someone who wants multiple sole-grind options for different turf/sand conditions — modern milled-face wedges from major OEMs outperform it on spin.
Competed against mid-2000s Cleveland CG wedges, Titleist Vokey Spin Milled precursors, and Ping's Tour-W, all as a lower-priced alternative sold through Golfsmith's own retail and catalog channel. It was superseded within the Snake Eyes line by later numbered models (650, 675, 685 series) as Jeff Sheets kept iterating; a modern equivalent in spirit is a budget forged wedge like a Wilson Harmonized or Cleveland CBX.
The wider 600W sole and gentler bevel were specifically engineered to fix playability complaints about the earlier Snake Eyes Forged wedge's narrower sole digging on firm turf; reviewers noted the oversized head and toe-extended grooves widen the forgiving area versus a traditional blade wedge, but it is still a single-sole-grind forged head with no modern face-milling or CG engineering, so extreme mishits still lose spin and distance.
Calibrated across the whole catalog — a tour blade scores low here on purpose; it means control, not ease.
Genuinely cheap and plentiful: individual 600-series wedges (600W, 600XC) sell on eBay in 2026 for roughly $15-$35 including shipping, reflecting a 20-year-old Golfsmith house-brand wedge with no collector premium. It is worth what it can still do on the course.
Reading is one thing — hitting is another. Book a bay and see the numbers for yourself before you buy anywhere.
