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14 clubs between two players: the foursomes rules that change what you carry
The Presidents Cup tees off at Medinah on 24 September and club winter foursomes start the week after. Alternate shot and match play run on different rules to the medal you played all summer — including one that lets a pair carry a single composite set between them.
By Tom Whitaker
TaylorMade Qi4D vs Callaway Quantum Triple Diamond Max: only one is built to be bought off the rack
Both landed in January, both are nine months into a twelve-month cycle, and both start getting marked down about now. The thing that decides it in September is what happens to each head when there is no fitting bay attached to the purchase.
By Jordan Hale
TruGolf LaunchBox review: 27 courses you own, and no annual bill
A portable camera unit at the price where the running cost usually decides the argument. This one ships with E6 CONNECT Home and 27 courses you keep, which changes the maths in a way the spec sheet does not.
By Ben Marsden
7 of the 15 Presidents Cup bags we hold play a Scotty Cameron, and it crosses both teams
The putter is the most personal club in the bag and the one most often chosen on feel. So it is strange that nearly half of the Medinah bags we maintain have settled on the same make, four on one team and three on the other.
By Ross Hamilton
Foresight Falcon vs Trackman iO: one charges you at installation, the other every year after
Two ceiling-mounted launch monitors at the very top of the market, roughly 21 per cent apart on the shelf. Both carry a second cost the sticker never mentions, and they carry it at opposite ends of the ownership.
By Marcus Bell
PowaKaddy FX3 vs Motocaddy M3 GPS DHC: the hill brake is a paid extra on one and built into the other
Both are mid-range electric trolleys and there is about three hundred between them. The gap is not motor, battery or build. It is how each brand chooses to sell you control on a wet descent.
By Tom Whitaker
Srixon reused ZXi7, ZXi5 and ZXiU for a second generation: PureFrame iQ is the word that separates them
The new family reaches retail on 16 October with the same three names on the box, which means for a few weeks two different sets of irons answer to ZXi7. Here is the checklist for telling them apart, and the case for buying the one being cleared out.
By Jordan Hale
Foresight Falcon review: the ceiling is the product, and the gaming PC is not in the box
Nothing sits beside the ball, nothing gets re-aimed, and a left-hander can step in without anyone moving anything. Then it asks for a ceiling you are allowed to drill into and a computer that is sold separately.
By Ben Marsden
An ironwood is a hollow iron on a fairway wood's sole, and Tour Edge just won Most Wanted with one
No governing body defines the word, so three separate design dials get bundled under it: a hollow head, a wide cambered sole and a lot of offset. Here is what each one buys, where the line with hybrids and hollow players' irons genuinely blurs, and what you look down at as a result.
By Jordan Hale
Stuburt Evolve Extreme Pro vs Galvin Green Armstrong: both keep rain out, only one lets sweat out
Four times the money buys breathability, stretch and a shell that folds down to nothing. It does not buy you drier shoulders in a downpour, which is the part the price tag implies and does not deliver.
By Tom Whitaker
Tour Edge Exotics Milled Wedge review: three bounce letters instead of the grind alphabet
On sale today, at roughly half what a Vokey costs, with a milled face and a KBS shaft. The clever part is not the price. It is that the whole line is sold on three bounce profiles rather than a wall of grind letters nobody can decode.
By Ben Marsden
The sim room gets built in September: a made-to-order enclosure can take a calendar month
The room that gets used all winter is the one where the screen is hanging before the clocks change. The one ordered in December is a box in a hallway in February, and the reason is not money.
By Ben Marsden
