A retractable screen, side baffles and all, that winches up into a ceiling housing and leaves the floor clear for a car. It is the first enclosure built for the reason most people never build a simulator — and it does not solve your ceiling height.
By Ben Marsden
It looks like the wet-weather version of the shoe more tour pros wear than any other. It is not, because that shoe is already warrantied waterproof. What the extra money buys is structure, and the trade is weight.
By Ben Marsden
Medinah No. 3 is 7,564 yards and par 72, which asks a lot of the top of the bag. That is exactly where the sets of the players arriving to play it stop matching.
By Dan Mercer
The Hot Launch Max D took the accuracy crown in super game-improvement irons and finished top three for distance and forgiveness. Tour Edge buys no tour staff bags, gets almost no rack space and does not run the ad pages, which is why it took an independent test for anyone to look at it. Us included.
By Ben Marsden
The feed
The rotation everyone recommends has a glove for hot, a glove for wet and a glove for freezing. It has no glove for a September eight o'clock tee time where the grass is soaked and the sky is clear, which is most of the next two months.
By Ross Hamilton
Two speed systems that disagree about method. One hands you a fixed ladder of three sticks and gets out of the way. The other builds you a personal prescription and cannot run a single session until something is measuring your swing.
By Jordan Hale
A challenger laser that also does GPS against the watch from the brand everyone associates with annual fees. Run both bills to year three and the labels swap over.
By Jordan Hale
Every bag in the shop claims some version of weather protection, and the claims describe two completely different products. One protects your grips for four hours. The other stops the bag itself turning into a sponge until March.
By Tom Whitaker
Two premium urethane balls sold on softness, from two brands that decide what soft means in completely different ways. One asks how fast you swing. The other asks what you like.
By Ross Hamilton
One trolley walks behind you with the handset in your pocket. The other goes exactly where your thumb sends it. On dry, open ground that is a preference. From October it becomes a question about traction, weight and how often you were reaching for the handset anyway.
By Tom Whitaker
One rolls up into a ceiling housing so the garage goes back to being a garage. The other is a fixed, framed room you can order to the exact size of your wall. As we list them, the retractable is the cheaper of the two, and the pipes are not in the Carl's box.
By Marcus Bell
There is a 64-degree wedge on the rack in most golf shops. Across the tour bags we maintain, the highest club is a 60 in the overwhelming majority, the three that go higher do it by a degree and a half at most, and nothing in the set carries a 62, 64 or 66.
By Ross Hamilton
One of these sets won MyGolfSpy's 2026 Most Wanted title in super game-improvement irons. The other one is on the rack forty minutes from you, in a bay you can book for Saturday morning. Both of those are real reasons to buy, and only one of them is about the iron.
By Jordan Hale
Full-grain leather, a Boa dial and the same Enerzy foam Mizuno puts in its running shoes. It undercuts the classic leather waterproofs by a long way, and there is one line in the small print that explains most of the gap.
By Ben Marsden
The low-bounce wedge that was perfect on firm July turf digs in November, and the 56 you rarely reach for is suddenly the better club. Most golfers buy bounce once and never revisit it, so here is what to actually do about it, short of buying a fourth wedge.
By Ross Hamilton
Both mats stand on the same grass-blade turf, so feel isn't the difference. What you are actually paying for is a vibration layer rated at 94 per cent on one and a centre hitting strip on the other, and only one of those solves a problem that otherwise costs thousands.
By Marcus Bell
A Solheim Cup team is about the only place in golf where two dozen women are all built clubs to their own measurements. Walk into a shop and the same industry will sell you a paint job and a flex grade that means nothing.
By Ben Marsden
Both are compact, both are aimed at good ball strikers, and both turn up in Solheim Cup bags this week. But the tour usage says they are not competing for the same slot in your bag at all.
By Jordan Hale
Nelly Korda, Rose Zhang, Charley Hull and Leona Maguire are four of the twenty-four players at Bernardus this week, and four of the fifty-three bags we maintain. The top of their bags is where the whole argument is.
By Jordan Hale
Nothing here will fix your slice. All of it makes the difference between a raw, dark, wet October round being a slog and being the best golf of the year.
By Dan Mercer
The clocks go back, the mat and the net come out of the garage, and four months later almost nobody is any better. The work that survives the walk back onto grass has one thing in common, and most indoor practice fails the test.
By Ross Hamilton
Two Odyssey putters sit on the same rail for almost the same money and answer opposite questions. One is built around a face insert from the year 2000, the other around tungsten in the sole. The tiebreaker is not your stroke arc.
By Ross Hamilton
Every simulator comparison in this category is a simulator against another simulator. The thing it is actually competing with is the renewal letter on your kitchen table, and the honest arithmetic has a twist in it.
By Ben Marsden
Forged, cast, multi-material, hollow-bodied with a forged face, and now printed from powder with a lattice inside. The word on the box has quietly stopped predicting anything about how the club plays.
By Jordan Hale
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