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Bushnell Tour V6 Shift vs Shot Scope Pro L2: do you really need the badge?
Two of the best value lasers in golf, from opposite ends of the value argument. The Shot Scope is the giant-killer on pure accuracy-per-pound; the Bushnell sells trust, optics and that famous pin-lock. Here's which one actually deserves your money.
By Jordan Hale
Golf gave up on the handheld GPS. Golf was wrong.
Watches won on convenience, lasers won on precision, and the humble handheld got left in the cup holder — where, inconveniently for the narrative, it still does things neither rival can: a full-hole map you can actually strategise from, battery life measured in rounds, and nothing buzzing on your wrist mid-swing.
By Ross Hamilton
The five most underpriced things in golf
Golf is famous for charging you three figures for a fractional gain. So here's the inversion: the five pieces of kit that cost less than a nice lunch and protect the most expensive technology in your bag. Tees, a towel, a brush, a divot tool and a pouch — the best value-per-stroke money in the game.
By Tom Whitaker
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
Precision Pro NX10 review: the laser that makes Bushnell money hard to justify
The NX10 is the first sub-flagship laser in years that genuinely rivals a top Bushnell — perfect-scoring accuracy, fast pin-lock and switchable slope for roughly half the money. Here's what you give up, and who should still spend more.
By Jordan Hale
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
Why tour pros wear sunglasses all day — then take them off to putt
Golf lenses genuinely work: contrast tints pull the ball out of the sky and lift the slopes out of a green. But depth perception is personal, which is why some very good players pocket their glasses over the ball. The honest buying rule: treat sunglasses as health kit first, performance kit second — and buy the pair you'll actually keep on for five hours.
By Ross Hamilton
Florida golf trip guide: the winter-sun capital, decoded
A Florida golf trip is the winter-sun capital for Americans and Brits alike: huge density, easy logistics and family-friendly resorts. Here's where to play, when to go, and why you pack a waterproof even in the sun.
By Ross Hamilton
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
Your polo has a spec sheet now: inside golf's cooling arms race
A January 2026 LifeLabs study found 84 percent of golfers now put cooling technology first when they buy apparel — cooling is the new waterproofing. Here's how to decode the fabric weights, ventilation zones and wicking claims, and why the cheapest tricks in the bag still beat any polo at 95 degrees.
By Jordan Hale
Wilson Staff Model X review: America's oldest golf company makes the ball nobody plays
Wilson has been making golf equipment in Chicago since 1914 and claims more majors have been won with its irons than any other brand's — yet its tour ball is invisible next to the wall of Titleist. The Staff Model X won a major 2026 robot test outright, costs meaningfully less than the big premiums, and deserves far better than obscurity.
By Tom Whitaker
