Accessories
Bags, trolleys and training aids — everything you carry, push and practise with to make the round easier and your game better.
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
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
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
"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
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 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
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
