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Carl's Place DIY Enclosure Kit review: the build is a conduit cut list, not carpentry, and the screen is where the money goes
The DIY in the name means buying 1-inch steel conduit and cutting it to a sheet Carl's Place sends you, or paying for the pre-cut pipe kit. The bigger decision is the screen, which moves the price more than the size does.
By Ben Marsden
Takomo Lumo M1 vs Odyssey Ai-ONE Jailbird: the low-torque mallet costs about a third less, and the neck decides between them
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 Approach S72 vs S70: sapphire, titanium and an ECG come in the box, the new green reading needs a Garmin Golf membership
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
Sun Mountain C-130 vs Ping Pioneer: 16 pockets against 11, and neither cart bag is waterproof for winter
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 MLM2XPRO vs MLM2PRO: the same 15 metrics, so the extra money buys tracked putting and speed
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 ZXi RKT LS vs ZXi LS: a taller face and a quieter head, or last year's low-spin driver at 38% less
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
29 of the 32 golf-tech price cuts we logged in September are back at the August price, and only SkyTrak's two held
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
Callaway X Forged review: the forged cavity back Ruoning Yin, Jeeno Thitikul and Minjee Lee use as scoring irons
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
Srixon ZXi5 + ZXi7 combo set: the stock split is at the 7-iron, and 9 of the 10 ZXi7 tour bags we track switch sooner
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
TheStack Stack Radar review: the speed radar that turns a winter overspeed block into numbers, and cheaper bought with TheStack
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
FootJoy HydroTour vs Sunderland Whisperdry Pro-Lite: 20,000mm against a lifetime guarantee, and the Sunderland now costs about a quarter as much
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 GC3 vs Uneekor EYE MINI: Foresight's 43% cut now makes the GC3 the better box, and the EYE MINI still the cheaper GSPro room
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
