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The home simulator wins the five-year sum against a club membership. Most of the saving is rounds you didn't play
Every simulator comparison in this category is a simulator against another simulator. The thing it is actually competing with is the renewal letter on your kitchen table, and the honest arithmetic has a twist in it.
By Ben Marsden
The word forged now covers five ways of building an iron, including one printed from metal powder
Forged, cast, multi-material, hollow-bodied with a forged face, and now printed from powder with a lattice inside. The word on the box has quietly stopped predicting anything about how the club plays.
By Jordan Hale
PXG Lightning vs Ping G440 Max: six lofts and three movable weights against the fairway wood you can hit this afternoon
One of these is a custom build with a loft for every hole in your bag. The other is sitting in a fitting bay ten minutes from your house. That, and not ball speed, is the whole decision.
By Jordan Hale
Exputt RG review: the putting simulator whose 44-inch mat decides what it can teach
A putting-only simulator that nobody in the gear press takes seriously, aimed at the part of the game that quietly falls apart between October and April. What it measures, what it only pretends to, and the mat dimension that explains both.
By Ben Marsden
Rain gloves come in pairs, and the grip underneath does half the work
The counterintuitive bit is well known. The bit almost nobody works out is that your gloved hand was never the problem, and the grip under it is doing half the job badly.
By Tom Whitaker
Ping G440 K vs Titleist GTS2: only one of these is actually sold in a slower-swing build
Both get handed to the same golfer across the same counter, and they solve opposite problems. The tell is not the head, it is the shaft weight on the order form.
By Jordan Hale
Ben Sayers Lithium vs Motocaddy QB2: is the cheapest electric trolley a false economy?
Every electric trolley conversation on this site has been held at the expensive end. Here is the one most club golfers are actually having, between a budget lithium trolley and the best compact push cart in the shop.
By Tom Whitaker
Eight hosel settings, a sliding weight and a torque wrench: what adjustability is worth on a driver
Eight hosel positions, a sliding weight, a torque wrench in a little pouch. Sold as personalisation, bought as insurance, and left on the factory setting by almost everyone who owns one.
By Ben Marsden
TaylorMade Qi10 fairway review: the 3-wood the best players never replaced
It is the most-played fairway in the 53 bags we track — and it is two generations old. Scheffler and McIlroy both still carry one. Here's why that matters more than the release date.
By Jordan Hale
Cobra 3DP MB vs Srixon Z-Forged II: one of these blades starts as metal powder
Two musclebacks aimed at the same golfer, made in ways that have nothing in common. One is hammered out of soft carbon steel. The other is printed, lattice and all, and costs roughly twice as much for fewer clubs.
By Jordan Hale
Titleist T100 irons review: the most-played iron in the bags we track
Eight of the 53 tour setups we maintain carry them — double the next model. At around {{price}}, here's the honest read on who that actually makes them right for.
By Jordan Hale
Titleist GT3 driver review: the adjustable one, for players who actually adjust
The compact, lower-spin half of the GT pair, and the most adjustable driver Titleist had made. Worth it only if you will use the track — here's how to tell.
By Jordan Hale
