Roger Cleveland Returns for the RTZ 2 Wedges — Nearly 50 Years After His 588

Cleveland Golf pulled the cover off something with real history behind it this week. On August 4th, out of Huntington Beach, California, the company announced its RTZ 2 wedges — and the headline isn’t a spec, it’s a name. Roger Cleveland, the founder himself, came back to lead the redesign, nearly 50 years after he introduced the original 588 Tour Action Wedge. Tour staffer Keegan Bradley carries the clubs through the product photography, and the line leans into the kind of scoring shots that get played around the green.

That kind of return doesn’t happen often. Cleveland has spent a career grinding wedges that generations of golfers have trusted, and by his own account the work is never finished. The most personal touch here is the reintroduced 588 — the iconic shape that started it all, tuned for versatile turf interaction on moderate-to-shallower swings. As he put it, “There isn’t a single wedge that works for every golfer.” Different swings, different turf, different shots around the green.

That reality is where the fitting story really lives. RTZ 2 offers five sole grinds — a grind is just the shape of the sole, the part that slides through grass and sand. Alongside the 588, there’s MID (the standard shape most golfers reach for), FULL (forgiveness out of soft turf, rough, and bunkers), LOW (built for firm ground and greenside creativity), and ADAPT Full-Face (a wider range of open-face shots). Lofts run from 46 to 64 degrees, in Tour Satin, Black Satin, or Tour Rack Raw finishes, on a True Temper Dynamic Gold shaft.

Under the paint, here’s the plain-English version. A softer-feeling steel called Z-Alloy takes some of the click out of impact without giving up strength or durability. UltiZip grooves, HydraZip face blasts, and Rotex milling all chase one thing — sharp, predictable spin whether the ball sits clean, buried in the rough, or soaked by wet turf — while ZipCore iQ shifts internal weight to suit each loft-and-grind combo, so your misses cluster a little tighter. Pricing runs $199.99 for Tour Satin and Black Satin, $219.99 for the Tour Rack, with pre-sale open now and the full launch set for September 4th.

But notice what all of that adds up to: five grinds only help if you pick the right one. A sole that’s perfect for a picker on firm turf can be a fight for a digger on soft ground — and you can’t eyeball that off a wall rack. That’s exactly what a wedge fitting sorts out, matching grind, bounce, and loft to your real swing and the turf you play. If a new wedge is on your list, come read your numbers on our launch monitor at Under Par first — because a wedge only performs once it fits you.