Takomo's new Lumo M1, its first putter, went on sale on 7 October as a direct-to-consumer answer to the stable mallets. It is cheaper than the Ai-ONE Jailbird but isn't half the price, and it gets there with a heel shaft and onset instead of a centre shaft.
By Ross Hamilton
Garmin's new flagship is lighter and tougher, and adds a speaker, a flashlight and swing metrics. The 47mm screen and the battery rating aren't any different from the S70's, and its two headline golf features, green reading and aerial imagery, sit behind the subscription.
By Jordan Hale
Ruoning Yin's most recent published bag runs X Forged from the 7-iron down, under a hollow-body 5 and 6. Jeeno Thitikul and Minjee Lee also start it mid-set, with a different long iron above. That is the right way to buy it, too.
By Ben Marsden
TheStack's speed programme can't prescribe anything until something measures your swing, and the Stack Radar is the device it was built around. It reads swing speed without a ball and sends it straight to the app. It doesn't measure launch or spin, so the carry number is an estimate, and it makes most sense bought together with TheStack.
By Ben Marsden
The feed
Two of the best-known trolley bags, both in stock heading into winter. The Pioneer has more pockets and a bigger putter well; the C-130 has bigger apparel space and weighs a little less. Neither keeps the rain out of the pockets.
By Tom Whitaker
Rapsodo's new launch monitor measures exactly what the old one does. What it adds is putting in simulation, a faster connection and an easier set-up, while the MLM2PRO drops in price. The membership bill is identical on both.
By Marcus Bell
Srixon cut the first ZXi LS hard as the RKT LS reached shops on 16 October. Same size, same lofts, same front-and-back weights. What changed is the face, the shape and the sound, and Ryan Fox's Open driver is neither of them.
By Jordan Hale
We log PlayBetter's whole catalogue. Labor Day weekend brought 27 cuts on rangefinders, watches, speakers and launch monitors, Garmin added five more mid-month, and by 24 October 29 of the 32 were back exactly where they started. Black Friday is 27 November.
By Tom Whitaker
Srixon now sells the blend its staff have played for two years as a single seven-club set. Its stock join sits at the 7-iron. Ryan Fox, Shane Lowry and four more tour bags switch at the 6, and three at the 5.
By Jordan Hale
The clocks went back this morning, and the two waterproofs on our winter list have drifted a long way apart. The FootJoy is a current three-layer shell rated to 20,000mm. The Sunderland is an end-of-line jacket being cleared far below its old price, and it still carries the longer guarantee.
By Tom Whitaker
Foresight has marked its three-camera GC3 down by more than 40 per cent on its own US store and at PlayBetter, leaving it a short step above Uneekor's portable two-camera unit. The hardware case now favours the GC3. The software bill still favours the EYE MINI, by almost exactly the size of the discount.
By Marcus Bell
The 8-by-7.5-foot Pro is the size most garages should buy, it stands in three and a half feet of floor, and adding The Net Return's own simulator screen brings it level with a Carl's Place DIY kit. Which one you want depends on whether winter is for practising or for playing.
By Ben Marsden
Titleist's 2026 TruFeel and Srixon's Soft Feel cost the same and are both two-piece, so price isn't the difference. Flight is: Titleist builds the TruFeel to fly low and penetrating, Srixon builds the Soft Feel to fly mid-high at a published 58 compression, and that decides it for most golfers.
By Ross Hamilton
Eight tour pros in our records carry RTZ as their entire wedge set, Ryan Fox won the Open with it, and Cleveland has just cut the price because RTZ 2 went on sale on 4 September. The new one changes the grinds, not the steel, which makes the old one the buy for most golfers.
By Ben Marsden
Two big tour mallets at similar money. The Spider comes with 21 degrees of toe hang, 30 degrees or face-balanced; the Phantom 12 comes one way. The face, the aim line and what the tour bags we track say about each.
By Ross Hamilton
Brooks Koepka retired his 2017 3-wood for a mini driver in Scotland and the winner carried a Ping prototype. Across the 80 tour bags we maintain the share is half the Dunhill's 29 per cent, and the club it replaces is clear.
By Tom Whitaker
Two high-speed cameras, a screen on top and the same optical method as Foresight units costing four times as much. It reads the ball and nothing else, Foresight sells it to US buyers only for now, and the software most people will want is a yearly bill.
By Ben Marsden
A wood built to add spin rather than shed it, in 21, 24 and 27 degrees. The early tests agree it holds greens. The catch is a fixed hosel, so the loft you buy is the gap you get.
By Ben Marsden
Two premium camera units with their own software, and one of them is bolted to the ceiling. The R50 needs nothing else to run a round. The APOGEE needs a PC, a permanent room and a commitment to E6.
By Marcus Bell
Same course database, same AMOLED idea, same front-middle-back numbers. The S70 costs more than double, and almost everything it adds happens either off the course or inside a club suggestion.
By Dan Mercer
A ceiling-mounted camera unit with a hitting zone more than three times the size of Uneekor's EYE XR and no membership to unlock its own data. Play courses on it and you still pay GSPro, but only GSPro.
By Ben Marsden
Two 100-metre remote trolleys at the same list price. One puts a 3.5-inch GPS in the handle and five years of cover on the battery; the other skips the screen for terrain control, a flatter fold and a month to try it.
By Tom Whitaker
The women's tour swings at roughly the speed of an average male club golfer, and its median driver loft is the same 9 degrees as the men's. The reason is how the club meets the ball, and it is the part amateurs rarely copy.
By Jordan Hale
Two units within reach of each other on price, from opposite ends of the room. The Mevo Gen2 owns its courses and charges once for club-face numbers. The ST MAX includes club path and face angle and charges every year for golf.
By Jordan Hale
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