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You learned golf on a simulator. Here's where the grass disagrees
Roughly half the people swinging in sim bays have never played a hole outdoors. If you're about to change that, your numbers, your ball and your feet are in for some news.
By Jordan Hale
You're playing the wrong driver loft — and it's costing you the easiest distance in golf
Most amateurs play too little loft, chasing tour spin numbers they physically can't produce, and leave yards on the tee for it. The launch data says the opposite of the range-buddy wisdom: the average golfer needs more loft than they think — and firm summer fairways move the target again.
By Jordan Hale
The mat is the one part of a home sim your body pays for — don't cheap out on it
Everyone agonises over the launch monitor and grabs the cheapest mat to save a few quid. It's backwards: the mat is the only component you physically feel on every single swing.
By Marcus Bell
The Open starts today — and it'll be won with the club you practise least
By Sunday, Royal Birkdale's trophy won't go to whoever bombs it furthest. It'll go to whoever controls the ball on and around firm, wind-scoured greens. Links golf is a short-game championship — and it's a live rebuke to every amateur grinding the driving range.
By Ross Hamilton
The only three projectors worth buying for a golf simulator
Forget the spec-sheet rabbit hole. For a golf sim the projector decision comes down to two things — your room's light and your budget — and it lands on one of three.
By Marcus Bell
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
The four home golf simulators: what each budget threshold actually unlocks
Spend twice as much and you don't get twice the simulator — you cross into a different kind of room. Here's what genuinely changes at each tier, and the exact point where more money stops buying you more golf.
By Marcus Bell
You're told to buy 15 things to start golf. You need about 6.
The golf industry loves a beginner with a credit card. But most of the starter shopping list exists to sell you gear, not to get you playing — and half of it will actively slow your progress. Here's the honest list of what a new golfer actually needs, and the expensive stuff you should absolutely not buy yet.
By Dan Mercer
How to watch The Open like someone who actually knows gear
The 154th Open tees off tomorrow at Royal Birkdale, and the broadcast will spend four days telling you about grit and destiny. The real drama is in the bag. Here are the equipment storylines that actually decide links golf — and which bits of tour tech are worth buying and which are pure theatre.
By Tom Whitaker
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
Watch the Open this week and unlearn everything American golf taught you
The best players on earth arrive at Royal Birkdale and immediately start playing a different sport. High-spin everything, fly-it-to-the-flag wedges and a soft ball that balloons in wind — the parkland setup most of us default to is exactly the wrong kit for links, and Open week is the free tutorial.
By Ross Hamilton
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
