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FlightScope Mevo Gen2 vs SkyTrak ST MAX: one sells you the club data, the other rents you the courses
Two units within reach of each other on price, from opposite ends of the room. The Mevo Gen2 owns its courses and charges once for club-face numbers. The ST MAX includes club path and face angle and charges every year for golf.
By Jordan Hale
TaylorMade SpeedSoft vs Callaway Supersoft: level off the driver, split by iron height and consistency
The two softest big-brand balls in the shop, a coin apart in price. Robot testing puts them within a fraction of a mile an hour off the driver, so the decision lives in the irons, around the green and inside the box.
By Ross Hamilton
Uneekor EYE XO2 review: a 28-inch hitting zone built for a busy bay, with stickers on the clubface
Three overhead cameras and the biggest hitting zone Uneekor makes, which is exactly what a bay with several players needs. The fine print is a box of 400 clubface stickers, a gaming PC and a software tier for course play.
By Ben Marsden
Vessel Player VI Pro vs Player V Pro: a bigger top and magnetic pockets, not a reason to replace a V Pro
Vessel's new flagship stand bag went on sale on 23 September with a top about nine per cent bigger, three more pockets and a quarter of a pound more weight. The old one is still on sale beside it, at almost the same money.
By Tom Whitaker
Voice Caddie SC4 PRO review: the phone-free range radar whose PRO extras need your phone
A Doppler launch monitor that reads carry, apex and spin off its own display and speaks your distance aloud, so the phone stays in the bag. The four metrics that make it the PRO are the exception: they live in the app.
By Ben Marsden
TruGolf LaunchBox vs Full Swing KIT: one price includes the courses, the other includes the club data
Two portable launch monitors below the premium tier, sold on opposite promises. TruGolf bundles 27 courses you keep and no annual bill. Full Swing bundles all sixteen data points and a camera, then leaves the golf courses to you.
By Marcus Bell
Skechers GO GOLF Max vs FootJoy FJ Flex for women: the waterproof Skechers is the winter shoe, the mesh Flex waits for spring
Two comfort-first women's spikeless shoes at almost the same price, built on almost the same idea. What separates them is the upper, and from October the upper is the part that decides whether your feet are dry on the fourth tee.
By Dan Mercer
Fiberbuilt Studio Grass review: buy the 7x4 single-hitting mat, because the both-hands layouts cost flagship money
Fiberbuilt's grass panel is the reason serious home bays end up on this mat, and the entry layout is the best way to buy it. The centre-hitting version is priced level with the Player Preferred, and it leaves out the panel your launch monitor sits on.
By Ben Marsden
SIK Pro C-Series vs T.P. Mills Trad II: the SIK corrects a wandering forward press, the Mills is a one-off you buy for the craft
Bryson DeChambeau putts with one and Jordan Spieth with the other, and they could hardly come from more different beliefs. One face is engineered to cancel out what your hands do at impact. The other is a single hand-finished head whose selling point is the person who made it.
By Ross Hamilton
Bettinardi HLX 6.0 review: a putter maker's forged wedge with two grinds where Vokey has six
Bettinardi's sixth-generation forged wedge brings more grooves, less offset in the lower lofts and some of the best milling detail in golf, at roughly Vokey money. The fitting matrix is eleven configurations deep, and that is the number to weigh before the looks.
By Ben Marsden
Bridgestone Lady Precept vs Callaway REVA: a soft standard-size ball against an oversized one, and size is the real decision
Both are low-spin balls sold to women and priced level with the unisex soft balls on the next shelf. Neither box tells you its compression. What actually separates them is diameter, and that decides who each one suits.
By Ross Hamilton
Arccos Smart Laser review: the auto-pin is the reason to buy it, and it sits behind a second subscription
Arccos's laser drops the pin into your shot-tracking app every time you range the flag, which fixes the one number tracking has always guessed. That feature runs on the laser's own annual subscription, not the one you already pay for tracking.
By Ben Marsden
