Accessories
Bags, trolleys and training aids — everything you carry, push and practise with to make the round easier and your game better.
Autumn dew kills a cabretta glove by the fourth tee: swap to a synthetic at the turn
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
TheStack vs SuperSpeed: only one of these needs a launch monitor to work at all
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
Golf bag waterproofing splits two ways: rain hoods keep the clubs dry, welded seams keep the bag dry
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
Stewart Q Follow vs MGI Zip Navigator AT: follow mode is a fair-weather feature, and the drive decides autumn
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
Speed, putting and strength: the three bits of winter practice that survive the walk back onto grass
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
Rain gloves come in pairs, and the grip underneath does half the work
The counterintuitive bit is well known. The bit almost nobody works out is that your gloved hand was never the problem, and the grip under it is doing half the job badly.
By Tom Whitaker
Ben Sayers Lithium vs Motocaddy QB2: is the cheapest electric trolley a false economy?
Every electric trolley conversation on this site has been held at the expensive end. Here is the one most club golfers are actually having, between a budget lithium trolley and the best compact push cart in the shop.
By Tom Whitaker
September beats January for a swing change: playable turf, evening light and nothing on the card
Everyone starts working on their game in January, in the dark, off a mat, with four months until it counts. September has better light, better turf and the one condition a swing change actually needs.
By Ben Marsden
Softer, wider trolley tyres are the free winter upgrade, and the turf is what you're saving
A narrow, hard, over-inflated tyre on saturated turf is how ruts start, and ruts are how carry-only days start. Almost all of the fix costs nothing.
By Ben Marsden
The Motocaddy I would actually buy is the one in the middle
The screen is the bit you pay extra for. Downhill control is the bit that earns its money, and on this model it costs less than the trolley above it.
By Ben Marsden
Nobody checks what a cart bag weighs, and the car park is where you find out
Pocket count is the number every shopper reads. Empty weight, and whether the base actually locks to the trolley it will live on, is the number that decides whether you like the bag.
By Tom Whitaker
Orange Whip vs Lag Shot: two flexible shafts that teach completely different things
They look like the same idea — a bendy shaft that forces you to swing in sequence. One is a warm-up tool you'll use for a decade, the other is a training club that changes what you do with a golf ball.
By Ross Hamilton
The bag that only holds eight clubs is the most interesting thing in golf retail
Small carry bags started as a nine-hole novelty and quietly became a statement about how much of your bag you actually use. The gear is good now — the argument underneath it is better.
By Tom Whitaker
Your glove died three rounds ago and it's costing you the club face
A dead glove doesn't feel like broken kit, it feels like a swing fault. The tell is a shiny heel pad, not a hole — and it shows up about 3 rounds before most golfers notice.
By Ross Hamilton
The 14-way divider is the most oversold feature in golf, and it's quietly wrecking your grips
A slot for every club sounds like the end of the tangle. It isn't — what actually matters is whether those 14 dividers run to the base, and most shoppers never check.
By Tom Whitaker
MGI Zip Navigator AT review: the remote trolley that finally stopped being a gimmick
At around $1,700 the Zip Navigator AT pairs full-directional remote control with all-terrain drive. On a hilly course that combination is the point. On a flat parkland course it is a very expensive way to walk.
By Tom Whitaker
Your golf bag is too big
Fourteen clubs is a limit, not a target, and you bought a bag sized for the target. If you walk, weight beats storage. If you ride, ignore every word.
By Ben Marsden
Push trolley vs electric trolley: is the extra money worth it?
One asks you to push your own clubs up the hill. The other does it for you, for nearly three times the price. How to tell which one you actually need.
By Ben Marsden
Arccos Air vs Gen 4 Sensors: the same data, two very different asks
One wants a sensor in every grip and your phone in your pocket. The other is a single clip that infers what you swung. The trade you're making isn't price — it's setup effort against how often it gets the club right.
By Tom Whitaker
The most useful data in golf doesn't come from a launch monitor
Home sims measure the shots you choose to hit, in a room with no wind, no lie and no consequences. The numbers that actually tell you where your handicap is leaking cost about $250 and screw into the end of your grips.
By Tom Whitaker
The golf glove is the cheapest upgrade in golf — and most golfers get it wrong
A glove touches every full swing you make, costs less than a sleeve of premium balls, and most golfers play the wrong one for the conditions. Here's the small rotation of gloves that keeps your grip locked in — dry, wet, cold and sweltering — for the price of one premium dozen.
By Dan Mercer
HackMotion Core review: the wrist sensor that shows you why you slice
Clubface control is the hidden cause of most slices, and until now it was invisible. HackMotion straps a sensor to your lead wrist, measures what your hands are doing 800 times a second, and beeps when you square the face. For the improver obsessed with ball-striking, it's genuinely revealing tech.
By Jordan Hale
Sunday Golf El Camino review: the featherweight bag that made walking cool again
At 1.8kg the El Camino weighs less than two dozen balls, yet it still carries ten-plus clubs, keeps two cans cold and stands rock-steady on the tee. For the walking golfer who's cut back to a half-set, it's close to perfect — as long as you're not trying to lug a full 14.
By Tom Whitaker
Age steals 20 yards off your tee — and a new driver isn't how you get them back
The decline is real and it's measurable, but the industry's answer — buy the newest driver every two years — targets the smallest lever. The three that actually move the needle are recoverable clubhead speed, a ball matched to your slower swing, and the weight you're carrying up the fairway.
By Dan Mercer
"Golf isn't a sport" is a dead argument. The players adding distance already know it.
The modern game is an athletic, speed-obsessed pursuit, and the amateurs actually gaining yards are the ones treating their bodies like athletes do. The gap almost nobody works on isn't swing reps — it's recovery and mobility, the cheapest speed you're leaving on the table.
By Dan Mercer
The buggy is quietly making your golf worse. Walk.
Ride-everywhere culture has convinced a generation of golfers that a cart is a convenience rather than a compromise. It's costing you rhythm, course feel and the low-grade fitness that keeps you sharp over eighteen holes — and the modern push cart that fixes it is nothing like the clattering trolley you're picturing.
By Ross Hamilton
Titleist Players 4 Plus vs Sun Mountain 2.5+: the tour default takes on the walking specialist
The walking revival has made the ultralight stand bag the most competitive category in golf, and this is its classic head-to-head: Titleist's do-everything carry bag against the featherweight from the company that invented the modern stand bag. One wins on storage and looks, the other on your shoulders after ten thousand steps.
By Jordan Hale
The best putters on Earth practise with cheap plastic — and you keep buying putters
Walk any tour practice green and it's covered in mirrors, gates, string lines and chalk — a full putting station for less than a dozen premium balls. Meanwhile amateurs respond to missed putts by buying a new putter. Here's how to decode the tour putting station, and which pieces actually move your handicap.
By Jordan Hale
Stewart Q Follow vs PowaKaddy RX1 GPS: follow-me or remote-control?
The robot-caddie era has quietly arrived, and it has split into two philosophies: a trolley that follows you down the fairway on its own, and a trolley you drive from a handset with a GPS brain bolted on. Here's which robot deserves your money — and the honest case for buying neither.
By Ross Hamilton
Swing speed training, explained: distance stopped being something you buy
MyGolfSpy's 2026 Most Wanted test hit 20,580 shots with 42 drivers and found the gaps between them are tiny. The gap between swing speeds is enormous — and overspeed training is the one proven way to move yours. Here's how speed sticks actually work, what they cost you in time, and who should skip them.
By Dan Mercer
Golf's smartest gadget doesn't measure your swing — it fixes the thing swinging the club
Massage guns, heat-and-vibration patches and guided mobility work went from tour physio trucks to mainstream in five years, and July is when they earn it: heat, 36-hole trips, back-to-back weekend rounds. Our position: a recovery routine adds more playable golf per season than any club purchase — because you can't turn through what you can't stretch.
By Jordan Hale
The best short-game facility in town might be your backyard
America just played one of its busiest golf weekends of the year — and most of those strokes were lost inside 60 yards, not off the tee. A chipping net, a bag of foam balls and a putting mat turn a garden and a long July evening into the practice station that actually moves your handicap. Bonus: it's how kids and partners get into the game without ever facing a range.
By Tom Whitaker
The push cart won America — riding should be the exception now
Walking golf boomed in 2020 out of necessity and never receded: a walked round is roughly five miles and comfortably north of a thousand calories, the old trolley stigma is dead, and the courses that banned push carts have quietly given up. On the busiest golf weekend of America's year, here's the case for making the cart the exception.
By Dan Mercer
How to choose a golf bag: cart, stand, or carry for how you actually play
The right bag is decided by how you get round the course — so match it to your real golf, not the bag the pros carry.
By Tom Whitaker
The summer practice kit that actually lowers your scores
Long evenings are the cheapest strokes you'll ever buy, but only if your practice tools turn range time into feedback instead of repetition.
By Ross Hamilton
AI swing apps and smart wearables in 2026: worth it?
App coaching and swing sensors can genuinely help — but only if you'll do the reps. The honest take on what moves your scores and what's just expensive data.
By Tom Whitaker
FootJoy StaSof review: the premium glove tour pros have trusted for decades
The best feel and grip money can buy in a glove — as long as you accept that premium Cabretta leather wears faster than synthetic.
By Dan Mercer
Sun Mountain C-130 review: the cart bag with a place for everything
Cavernous, brilliantly organised and built to lock onto a trolley — if you ride or push every round, this is the one.
By Tom Whitaker
PING Hoofer 14 review: still the stand bag to beat
Not the lightest, not the flashiest — but the most sensible carry bag in golf, and the one we keep recommending over everything else.
By Ross Hamilton
PowaKaddy CT8 GPS review: the compact trolley with GPS baked into the handle
It folds smaller than almost anything in its class and puts a colour touchscreen GPS on the handle. Is the integrated screen worth the premium?
By Tom Whitaker
The guy grooving 60 straight 7-irons is wasting his afternoon
Most range time never touches your scorecard — it's mindless bucket-bashing that feels like practice and transfers to nothing. The fix is counterintuitive and cheap: practise what you can measure, then practise the way you actually play.
By Tom Whitaker
Motocaddy M5 GPS vs PowaKaddy CT8: the electric trolley to buy
The two brands that own the fairway, head to head — it comes down to the screen, the fold and how your course slopes.
By Tom Whitaker
Vessel Player V Pro review: the carry bag that feels like a luxury good
Stupidly nice to own, genuinely good to carry — if you can stomach the price, almost nothing else feels like this.
By Dan Mercer
Push vs electric trolley: which is actually worth it?
One saves your back for not much money; the other saves your legs for rather more. How to spend wisely on carrying nothing.
By Jordan Hale
Read your divots: the cheap board that fixes ball-striking
It's all over golf TikTok for a reason — instant, brutally honest feedback on where your club actually bottoms out.
By Ross Hamilton
Stand bag vs cart bag: which one's right for you?
Buy the wrong one and you'll fight it every round. The choice is simpler than the wall of bags suggests — it's about how you get round.
By Jordan Hale
Do golf gloves matter — and how many do you actually need?
It's the cheapest bit of kit you touch every swing, and most golfers treat it as an afterthought. Here's what actually matters.
By Jordan Hale
PuttOut Pressure Putt Trainer review: the cheap aid that actually gets used
Most training aids end up in the garage. This little ramp is the rare one that earns a permanent spot — here's why it works.
By Ross Hamilton
Stop buying alignment sticks you'll never use — the only 3 training aids worth it
Your garage is a graveyard of gadgets. Here are the three that actually earn their place, and why everything else is clutter.
By Dan Mercer
An electric trolley is the best money I've spent on golf
Not the clubs, not the gadgets. The thing that made me enjoy walking 18 again was the least glamorous purchase in the bag.
By Dan Mercer
How to practise putting at home (and actually get better)
You hole more putts than you think on the carpet and fewer than you'd like on the course. Here's how to make home practice that transfers.
By Ross Hamilton
Motocaddy M5 GPS review: the electric trolley that does the thinking
GPS course maps, downhill control and a battery that shrugs off 36 holes — the do-it-all electric trolley most walkers should buy first.
By Jordan Hale