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Callaway Chrome Tour review: the longest premium ball just got faster
For a fast-swing player who wants maximum distance without giving up greenside control, the Chrome Tour is the premium ball to beat — it topped a major robot test for distance, and the latest version adds ball speed without softening its short game. The one thing to check is the firm feel.
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
July is the smartest month to buy golf waterproofs. Yes, really
Nobody shops for rain gear in a heatwave — which is precisely the point. Last season's stock is being cleared, the new ranges land at full price in September, and Open week is about to remind everyone that the best golfers on Earth carry waterproofs in high summer. Here's how to buy once and buy right.
By Tom Whitaker
Royal Birkdale will humble them — and that's exactly why you should watch
One week from now the 154th Open begins in Southport, and the most optimised power golfers in history will spend four days negotiating with wind, firm turf and pot bunkers. It's the best golf-watching week of the year — and the gear lessons for the rest of us are hiding in plain sight.
By Ross Hamilton
Srixon Z-Star review: the tour ball that out-spun the Pro V1 — for less
Most golfers default to the two obvious names and never try the Z-Star. That's a mistake: it's a genuine three-piece urethane tour ball with elite greenside spin, a softer feel than almost anything at the top, and a lower price. Here's who should be playing it.
By Ross Hamilton
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
Your yardages are fiction — and millions of tracked shots prove it
Ask a golfer how far he hits his 7-iron and you'll get a number. Ask a shot-tracking database and you'll get a different, shorter, truer one. The gap between the two is costing you more strokes than your swing is — and the fix costs a month of honesty, not a new set of irons.
By Dan Mercer
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
How good are cheap rangefinders now? Good enough to embarrass a Bushnell
The gap between a pocket-money laser and a flagship one has quietly collapsed. For most golfers a value rangefinder now does the whole job — here's the ladder from dirt-cheap to feature-loaded, and exactly where the extra money still buys you something real.
By Dan Mercer
Golf shoes stopped looking like golf shoes — and got better for it
The saddle-shoe uniform is dead. The best-selling golf shoes of 2026 look like running shoes and lifestyle sneakers, the upstarts that forced the change came from cricket and the minimalist-comfort school, and the real spec now is whether you can wear them home. That's progress, not decline.
By Tom Whitaker
Your back-nine collapse isn't fatigue — it's dehydration, and it's costing you strokes
Sports science puts the threshold at around two per cent of body mass: lose that much to sweat and your fine motor control and decision-making measurably degrade. A four-hour round in July heat gets you there easily if you drink on autopilot. Here's the protocol — and the gear that makes it effortless.
By Dan Mercer
FlightScope Mevo+ review: the launch monitor home simulators are actually built around
While the internet argues about budget camera units and the Garmin R10, the Mevo+ quietly became the default brain of the serious home sim — tour-grade radar heritage, full ball and club data, and out-of-the-box simulator connectivity. It needs room to breathe, and the add-ons push the real cost up.
By Jordan Hale
