Mini drivers have gone from curiosity to a permanent slot in the range. These are the two most credible ways in, and they solve two completely different problems.
By Jordan Hale
Ryan Fox won the Open with a driver you cannot buy, at any price, on any date. Days later Srixon put more unreleased gear into play. The gap between the tour truck and the pro shop has stopped being an accident.
By Dan Mercer
Across 81 irons tested this year, one 7-iron carried 202.2 yards and finished about 10 yards clear of the field. That is a marketing triumph and a scoring problem, and the reason is stamped on the sole.
By Jordan Hale
On 17 June the R&A and USGA backed off the distance rollback and pushed it to 2030 at the earliest. The delay is defensible. What replaces it should worry you more than the original rule ever did.
By Tom Whitaker
A 20-wedge spin test separated third place from tenth by about 200 RPM, and put two brands most golfers have never heard of above the entire major-brand field. Here is what to shop on instead.
By Ross Hamilton
The feed
The most common home-sim regret isn't a launch monitor's accuracy. It's a room you flinch in and a picture you can't see in daylight — and both get budgeted last.
By Marcus Bell
Tour bags and better amateur bags have quietly deleted the 3- and 4-iron. The hard part isn't the deletion, it's choosing between the three very different clubs fighting over the empty slot.
By Jordan Hale
Titleist's GTS drivers, Ping's S259 wedges, TaylorMade's Qi Max HL irons and fresh Scotty Cameron mallets have all landed. The answer-first truth: for most golfers the honest answer is 'not yet' — here's the short list of when it's genuinely worth it.
By Jordan Hale
Callaway's refreshed the Chrome Tour, XXIO's chasing easy speed, and every brand claims a breakthrough. The honest answer-first version: the year-on-year gains are tiny, and picking the right ball for your game matters far more than the model year.
By Ross Hamilton
You no longer need a pricey club membership or a stack of medal cards. Here's the fastest route to an official Handicap Index in 2026 — and the everyday rounds that now count towards it.
By Dan Mercer
More golf tech now ships with its real cost hidden in an app: simulator rounds behind memberships, stats behind annual plans, features that switch off when you stop paying. Here's the honest map of who charges what — and the brands quietly winning by charging nothing.
By Jordan Hale
A three-piece urethane tour ball built around Bridgestone's fastest staffers, at the soft, spinny end of the line. Who should play it over a Pro V1 or TP5?
By Ross Hamilton
A spiked, waterproof shoe built on a genuine wide last, at a value price. For broad feet, it solves a problem the big brands mostly ignore.
By Tom Whitaker
One buys you the best optics and a gyro-stabilised picture; the other gives you most of the experience for a little over half the outlay. Which is the smarter buy?
By Jordan Hale
Same five-layer tour pedigree as the TP5, tuned for speed and a flatter flight. The question isn't whether it's good — it's whether you're the swing it was built for.
By Ross Hamilton
Skechers keeps winning the comfort argument on golf shoes. Whether that's the shoe you should buy depends entirely on how — and where — you play.
By Dan Mercer
A budget-laser icon against the tour-caddie standard — one costs roughly five times the other, and only one specific golfer actually needs the expensive one.
By Jordan Hale
A premium leather spikeless shoe built around walking comfort rather than a tour athlete's swing — for the golfer who walks and hates changing shoes afterwards, it's a revelation.
By Tom Whitaker
A newer camera-based monitor that reads club data the budget radar crowd can't — and never charges a subscription. Here's honestly where it fits in a home sim.
By Marcus Bell
Two very different GPS watches at two very different prices — one is the polished all-rounder, the other quietly tells you where you actually lose shots.
By Jordan Hale
At 37 compression it's about the softest ball you can buy. But soft isn't a performance stat, it's a feel — so here's what that daft-low compression actually does for your game, and what it quietly costs you.
By Ross Hamilton
No watch on your wrist, no laser to aim, no subscription — just big, glanceable yardages and slope in your pocket. For a lot of golfers that's the whole job, done, for the price of a decent round.
By Jordan Hale
Two of the smartest sim-grade launch monitors under camera-system money, and golfers agonise over the spec sheets. But the choice between them really comes down to one unglamorous thing most buyers measure last: how much space you actually have.
By Marcus Bell
Premium urethane balls are brilliant and, for most amateurs, quietly the wrong purchase. The Soft Feel is soft, genuinely long at real-world swing speeds, and cheap enough that you swing without flinching. Here's who it's right for and who should still pay up.
By Ross Hamilton
Every other ball on the shelf promises you tour performance. Callaway's women's ball promises something rarer — that the game gets friendlier while you find your swing. It keeps that promise, with caveats.
By Ross Hamilton
Tour gear
The exact clubs the world's best play right now — sourced, date-stamped and linked to every model.
Scottie Scheffler
PGA Tour
Rory McIlroy
PGA Tour
Jon Rahm
LIV Golf
Bryson DeChambeau
LIV Golf
Xander Schauffele
PGA Tour
Ludvig Åberg
PGA Tour
Collin Morikawa
PGA Tour
Nelly Korda
LPGA Tour
Buying guides
Every category ranked for how you actually play — the picks that make the cut, and why.
Best Golf Drivers 2026
Best Golf Rangefinders 2026
Best Premium Golf Balls 2026
Best Golf Shoes 2026
Best Stand Bags 2026
Best Golf Training Aids 2026
Destination guides
The bucket-list courses — where to play, when to go, and how to plan it.
