Tech
Rangefinders, GPS, launch monitors and home simulators — the tech that measures your game and hands you real numbers.
Garmin Approach S70 vs S44: the extra money buys Virtual Caddie and a health watch, not better yardages
Same course database, same AMOLED idea, same front-middle-back numbers. The flagship costs close to double, and almost everything it adds happens either off the course or inside a club suggestion.
By Dan Mercer
ProTee VX review: overhead club data where the only yearly bill is the course software
A ceiling-mounted camera unit with a hitting zone more than three times the size of Uneekor's EYE XR and no membership to unlock its own data. Play courses on it and you still pay GSPro, but only GSPro.
By Ben Marsden
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
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
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
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
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
Garmin Approach G82 vs Shot Scope H50: the built-in launch monitor only earns its price if you practise on a range
Two big-screen handhelds, more than twice apart on price. The difference is a radar launch monitor in the Garmin, and whether you need one comes down to how often you hit balls away from the course.
By Tom Whitaker
Trackman 4 review: the 2015 radar is still the reference, and it pays for coaches, putting and the range
Trackman's dual-radar unit is more than ten years old and every other launch monitor is still checked against it. That age is part of the case for it. The room it needs, the putting data it has and the iO doesn't, and who should spend the money.
By Ben Marsden
BenQ AK700ST vs LK936ST: the extra 1,100 lumens only pay where daylight reaches the screen
BenQ's two golf-sim lasers share a resolution, a light source and a golf picture mode. The dearer one buys brightness and lens shift. The cheaper one throws shorter and weighs half as much, and for most sim rooms that matters more.
By Marcus Bell
Foresight QuadMAX review: a coach's instrument for the range as much as the bay, and a GC3 covers the home sim
Four cameras, 18 parameters, a touchscreen and a battery that outlasts a range day. The QuadMAX is the machine fitting bays are built around, and the people who should own one are the people who use its data for a living.
By Ben Marsden
Uneekor EYE XR vs Foresight Falcon: the Falcon buys a far bigger hitting zone, the EYE XR keeps stickers off your clubs
Both hang from the ceiling and both leave the floor empty. One costs nearly three times the other, and the money buys space to miss the spot, four cameras and no software fee. It does not buy sticker-free club data. The cheaper unit has that.
By Marcus Bell
4 hardware cuts, 4 software rises: every launch-monitor price move our log caught in six weeks, and SkyTrak did both on one day
We log one big American retailer's live prices across 744 products. Between August and late September the launch-monitor shelf moved eight times, and the direction depended entirely on whether the thing being priced was a box or a login.
By Jordan Hale
SkyTrak ST MAX review: the sensible home-sim buy, and the discontinued SkyTrak+ that still undercuts it
The unit that sits exactly where most garage budgets land, and the only one in its bracket that runs course play without a gaming PC. The awkward part is that the model it replaced is still on shelves, cheaper, and tracking the ball the same way.
By Ben Marsden
Uneekor EYE MINI vs Bushnell Launch Pro: both boxes now cost the same, and GSPro decides it
Uneekor has taken a four-figure cut out of the EYE MINI and Bushnell has trimmed the Launch Pro Circle B, and the two units have landed within a dollar of each other at US retail. That removes the hardware gap that used to settle this, and leaves the subscription ladder holding the entire decision.
By Marcus Bell
Garmin Z82 vs Bushnell Tour V7 Shift: one puts the hole in the viewfinder, the other puts your own carry numbers in it
Both fold a second layer of information into a laser, and both sit in the same bracket. One layer is 41,000 mapped courses laid over the hole you are standing on. The other is your own launch monitor carry numbers, and it is the one the Rules of Golf switch off in anything played to a card.
By Jordan Hale
Bushnell LPi Circle B review: Foresight measurement at a third of the Launch Pro, and it never leaves the room
It runs the same Foresight Sports measurement lineage as the Launch Pro and currently sells for about a third of the price. The catch is stated plainly on the spec sheet, which is rarer than it should be: this one is indoor only, and it is the first unit at this money to stop pretending otherwise.
By Ben Marsden
Mileseey GenePro G1 vs Bushnell Tour Hybrid: the screen or the viewfinder decides it
Two devices, one idea: put the laser and the GPS in the same hand. One hangs a touchscreen off the side of the barrel, the other hides the yardages inside the eyepiece. They cost about the same, which means this comes down to where you want to be looking.
By Ben Marsden
FlightScope X3C review: a radar house going after the indoor rooms the cameras own
FlightScope has spent two decades arguing that radar sees ball flight better than anything. The X3C pairs it with synchronised high-speed imaging and puts the whole thing in an aerospace carbon-fibre shell that weighs under seven pounds. It is a specialist's buy, and the specialism is a specific one.
By Ben Marsden
Carl's Place Curved vs Pro enclosure: the curve buys peripheral vision and spends it on projector geometry
Carl's curved kit wraps the impact screen around the hitting area so the image carries into peripheral vision. That changes the surface your projector has to focus on, which makes this a screen decision and a projector decision at the same time.
By Marcus Bell
Uneekor EYE XR vs EYE XO2: the cheaper overhead keeps the sticker-free club tracking and gives up the hitting zone
Same brand, same ceiling mount, and one of them costs a little over 1.8 times the other. Before either is a decision, measure the room — then the gap comes down to a third camera and how much ball-position drift it forgives.
By Marcus Bell
Foresight QuadMAX vs Trackman 4: cameras beside the ball, radar that needs the room
The two machines every other launch monitor gets benchmarked against, about 30 per cent apart on the shelf. The number that decides between them is not on either spec sheet — it is the distance from where the ball sits to the wall behind you.
By Marcus Bell
Home simulators are sold as practice and used as a cinema: spend on the projector or on club data, not half on each
Every brochure in this category promises a better swing. The rooms I hear about are four people, a speaker and a famous course on a Tuesday night in February. Both are good reasons to build one. They are not the same build.
By Ben Marsden
Garmin Approach S44 vs Instinct Crossover Solar: hole maps against a battery measured in months
Same maker, same course database, same phone app. One draws the hole for you and charges every four rounds. The other survives anything, runs on sunlight and shows you three numbers.
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
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
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
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
Blue Tees Captain Pro vs SkyCaddie LX5: the subscription brand is the one with nothing to pay for three years
A challenger laser that also does GPS against the watch from the brand everyone associates with annual fees. Run both bills to year three and the labels swap over.
By Jordan Hale
SportScreen Vanish vs Carl's Place Pro: the retractable one is cheaper, and the room's other job decides it
One rolls up into a ceiling housing so the garage goes back to being a garage. The other is a fixed, framed room you can order to the exact size of your wall. As we list them, the retractable is the cheaper of the two, and the pipes are not in the Carl's box.
By Marcus Bell
SportScreen Vanish review: the sim enclosure that rolls into the ceiling and hands the garage back
A retractable screen, side baffles and all, that winches up into a ceiling housing and leaves the floor clear for a car. It is the first enclosure built for the reason most people never build a simulator — and it does not solve your ceiling height.
By Ben Marsden
Fiberbuilt Player Preferred vs Studio Grass: two different turfs, and the price gap depends on your layout
Fiberbuilt's two simulator mats stand on different hitting surfaces and come in the same single-, centre- and double-hitting layouts. The extra money buys Pure Impact Turf and a vibration layer rated at 94.7 per cent, and how much extra depends on which layout your household needs.
By Marcus Bell
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
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
BenQ publishes a zero-degree floor for its sim projector. No launch monitor maker publishes one at all
Most home sims live in an unheated garage, shed or loft, and winter is the entire point of owning one. Cold does not throw an error message. It quietly changes the room, the kit and every number you are given.
By Marcus Bell
BenQ LK936ST vs Optoma GT2100HDR: the projector decision is about your room, not your budget
Two short-throw laser projectors for a golf simulator, separated by roughly threefold on price. The right answer is set by the light in your room and the distance you actually have, not by the lumen number.
By Marcus Bell
Uneekor EYE MINI vs Bushnell Launch Pro: over three years the subscription box is still the cheaper one
Two photometric units, two completely different bargains. Add up three years of ownership and the cheaper box is still the cheaper box, which changes what the EYE MINI premium is really for.
By Marcus Bell
TruGolf APOGEE review: the sim unit that gives you your floor back
TruGolf's overhead unit clears the hitting bay completely and replays your impact in slow motion after every shot. The catch is a ceiling you have to drill into and a software list with one name on it.
By Ben Marsden
ProTee VX vs Trackman iO: the iO costs 77 per cent more, and that gap only pays if the bay earns money
Two ceiling-mounted launch monitors, one clear hitting bay, and a price gap of roughly 77 per cent. The decision is less about accuracy than most buyers assume.
By Marcus Bell
Most of an enclosure's price is the screen. Most buyers don't realise that, and it settles this argument
The SIG10 arrives at well under half the Carl's Place Pro's ask with a screen that has already beaten the category favourite in independent testing. The Pro is answering a different question, and it is a question about your walls.
By Marcus Bell
Foresight made real accuracy a garage purchase. The no-subscription pitch has one asterisk.
Three cameras reading the ball directly, close enough to a GCQuad that most amateurs will never find the gap, and no fee to keep using the hardware. The room it needs and the software it talks to are what decide whether it fits your build.
By Ben Marsden
Bushnell built the device that ends the two-gadget dance. Almost nobody buys it.
A laser and a GPS in the same viewfinder, so you look once instead of twice. The category has never really sold, and the reason is not the one golfers give.
By Ben Marsden
Trackman iO vs Uneekor EYE XO2: the year-one trap
Both mount overhead, both want ten feet of ceiling, and about $3,000 separates them on the shelf. Then Trackman's included first year runs out, and the gap starts growing by $1,100 a year.
By Marcus Bell
The challenger brands caught Bushnell years ago. Here is the only part of the premium still worth paying
The challenger brands now match the incumbent on every line of the spec sheet and cost noticeably less. After a few seasons of that being true, it's worth being precise about what the premium still buys.
By Jordan Hale
Uneekor EYE XO2 vs Foresight GC3: ceiling or floor?
About $4,000 separates them, but they're not really rivals — one lives in your ceiling forever, the other sits on the floor and travels. The cheaper one is also the one with no subscription.
By Marcus Bell
70% of golfers used a simulator last year. 6% own one — and the reason isn't money
A survey of 391 golfers found the number one barrier to owning a home setup is space, not cost. I've been writing about this category the wrong way round, and so has everyone else.
By Marcus Bell
Full Swing KIT review: the tape measure decides this, not Tiger
Tour pedigree, TGL on ESPN, and radar good enough to be checked against a Trackman outdoors. It also wants eighteen to twenty feet of room, which rules out most of the garages people buy it for.
By Ben Marsden
Launch Pro vs SkyTrak ST MAX: the subscription decides it
Two of the most-recommended home-sim units, about $1,000 apart on the sticker. Run the software costs for three years and the gap gets much wider — in one specific direction.
By Marcus Bell
Trackman iO review: the launch monitor you buy once, and the four reasons most people shouldn't
The most expensive thing in our catalogue, and it earns the badge. But there are 4 honest reasons it isn't the right buy for most home sim rooms — and the rung below gets a lot of people most of the way.
By Marcus Bell
Carl's Place DIY vs Pro enclosure: the real question is whether you own a mitre saw
The $2,900 gap between the two Carl's Place kits buys exactly two things: framing you don't have to build, and a screen matched to your room's light. Here's the honest test for which side of it you belong on, and why a DIY build quietly keeps costing more than the receipt says.
By Marcus Bell
Uneekor's cheapest way in saves you nearly 40% — here's exactly what you're giving up
The EYE MINI LITE undercuts the EYE MINI by roughly $1,750 and gives up exactly one thing: the ability to leave the room. Most home-sim buyers are paying for portability they will use twice.
By Marcus Bell
Mileseey GenePro G1 review: the rangefinder that swallowed a GPS watch
A laser with a full touchscreen GPS bolted to the side. Absurd on paper, genuinely clever in the hand, and let down by its own app.
By Ben Marsden
Your impact screen colour and your projector are one decision, not two
Grey screens absorb around 40% more ambient light, which is why they look so much better in a garage. They also swallow your projector's output — so choosing grey and then buying a mid-brightness projector gives you a worse picture than white would have.
By Marcus Bell
Golf's new AI rangefinders are genuinely clever, and you'll be switching them off
A new tier of laser promises yardages adjusted for the wind you're actually standing in. The technology is real. The bit nobody prints on the box is that you can't use it in anything played to a card.
By Jordan Hale
Your garage practice doesn't die in February because you lost motivation
It dies because of a small, stupid, entirely fixable thing: bending down. Twenty minutes of home practice contains about four minutes of golf and sixteen of picking balls up — and that ratio, not your willpower, is what kills the habit.
By Marcus Bell
Bushnell Launch Pro review: the unit that dragged fitting-grade data into the garage
Foresight Sports measurement for roughly a third of a GCQuad, indoors or out. The hardware is close to unimpeachable — the thing you need to think hard about is which subscription tier you'll actually live on.
By Marcus Bell
The launch monitor price ladder: what each jump in price actually buys
Seven rungs, seventy-fold price range, and only two of the jumps genuinely change how much you improve. A plain map of where the money goes — including the annual fees that don't appear on any price tag.
By Dan Mercer
Overhead or beside the ball? The home-sim decision nobody explains until you've already bought
Every premium launch monitor guide ranks units by accuracy. Almost none of them tell you that where the thing physically sits will change your sim room more than the spec sheet will — and that one of these choices is permanent.
By Marcus Bell
Launch Pro vs Foresight GC3: I did the subscription maths and it says the opposite of what everyone tells you
Same measurement technology, $4,000 apart, and one of them bills you every year. The received wisdom is that the no-subscription unit wins over time. Run the actual numbers and it only wins if you'd have picked the expensive plan.
By Marcus Bell
You're upgrading your golf sim in the wrong order
The most common home-sim regret isn't a launch monitor's accuracy. It's a room you flinch in and a picture you can't see in daylight — and both get budgeted last.
By Marcus Bell
Nikon Coolshot Pro II vs Precision Pro NX10: how much rangefinder do you need?
One buys you the best optics and a gyro-stabilised picture; the other gives you most of the experience for a little over half the outlay. Which is the smarter buy?
By Jordan Hale
GoGoGo Vpro vs Bushnell Tour V7 Shift: do you really need to spend 5x?
A budget-laser icon against the tour-caddie standard — one costs roughly five times the other, and only one specific golfer actually needs the expensive one.
By Jordan Hale
Square Golf launch monitor review: the camera unit that undercuts the radar crowd
A newer camera-based monitor that reads club data the budget radar crowd can't — and never charges a subscription. Here's honestly where it fits in a home sim.
By Marcus Bell
Garmin Approach S50 vs Shot Scope V5: slick watch or free game data?
Two very different GPS watches at two very different prices — one is the polished all-rounder, the other quietly tells you where you actually lose shots.
By Jordan Hale
Bushnell Phantom 3 review: the no-faff GPS that costs less than a wedge
No watch on your wrist, no laser to aim, no subscription — just big, glanceable yardages and slope in your pocket. For a lot of golfers that's the whole job, done, for the price of a decent round.
By Jordan Hale
SkyTrak+ vs FlightScope Mevo+: your room decides this one, not your budget
Both are now outgoing models on run-out prices, which makes this more useful rather than less — the successors inherit the same trade-off. And it isn't the spec sheet. It's how much space you actually have.
By Marcus Bell
Shot Scope V5 review: the golf watch that tracks your whole game for free
Most game-tracking systems hand you tour-level stats and then charge you monthly to keep them. The V5 gives you strokes gained and 100-plus stats on your own game with no subscription, ever — and that changes the maths entirely.
By Jordan Hale
Rapsodo MLM2 Pro vs Shot Scope LM1: measured spin and sim golf, or just the number?
Two launch monitors golfers cross-shop constantly, sitting either side of the same question — how much do you actually need? One films your swing, measures spin and plays sim courses all winter. The other strips the whole idea down to a carry number on a screen.
By Jordan Hale
The smartest time to buy a golf simulator is the middle of summer
Nobody is thinking about indoor golf in July — which is exactly why the golfer who builds now plays all winter while everyone else is fighting over stock in November.
By Dan Mercer
Golf GPS in 2026: what's actually worth buying now
Golf GPS had a big year — laser-and-GPS hybrids, connected rangefinders and slope displays that finally earn their keep. Here's the landscape: what's worth your money now, and the new arrivals worth knowing about.
By Dan Mercer
Radar vs camera launch monitors: the home-sim decision nobody explains
Two completely different technologies hide behind the words launch monitor, and picking the wrong one for your room is the most expensive mistake in home golf.
By Jordan Hale
Garmin built a GPS watch just for juniors — and it's smarter than it sounds
The Approach J1 is the first golf GPS watch designed specifically for kids. It sounds like a gimmick — it isn't. Here's what it actually does, who it's really for, and where it fits.
By Jordan Hale
You learned golf on a simulator. Here's where the grass disagrees
Roughly half the people swinging in sim bays have never played a hole outdoors. If you're about to change that, your numbers, your ball and your feet are in for some news.
By Jordan Hale
The mat is the one part of a home sim your body pays for — don't cheap out on it
Everyone agonises over the launch monitor and grabs the cheapest mat to save a few quid. It's backwards: the mat is the only component you physically feel on every single swing.
By Marcus Bell
The only three projectors worth buying for a golf simulator
Forget the spec-sheet rabbit hole. For a golf sim the projector decision comes down to two things — your room's light and your budget — and it lands on one of three.
By Marcus Bell
The four home golf simulators: what each budget threshold actually unlocks
Spend twice as much and you don't get twice the simulator — you cross into a different kind of room. Here's what genuinely changes at each tier, and the exact point where more money stops buying you more golf.
By Marcus Bell
The best golf GPS watch is the one you'll actually wear
Golf watches now range from a simple yardage display to a rugged solar computer that tracks every shot. The trick isn't buying the most features — it's matching the watch to how you actually play and what you'll genuinely use. Here's how to pick the right tier.
By Dan Mercer
Garmin Approach S50 review: the golf watch most people should actually buy
The S50 takes nearly everything that made Garmin's flagship special — the gorgeous AMOLED screen, slope-adjusted distances, shot tracking, wrist heart rate and Garmin Pay — and sells it for a lot less than double. For most golfers, this is the sweet spot.
By Jordan Hale
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
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
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
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
Shot Scope LM1 review: has the launch monitor finally got cheap enough?
The LM1 drags personal launch-monitor pricing down to impulse-buy territory, and for most golfers chasing a real carry number, that is the whole story.
By Jordan Hale
Why golf is quietly happening indoors now
Simulators, bays and bright-lit ranges have pulled millions into the game without a tee time in sight. Here's what the off-course boom means for the gear you buy.
By Jordan Hale
Garmin Approach Z30 review: the connected laser, if you're already a Garmin golfer
Garmin's first new rangefinder in years beams the pin number to your watch. Whether that's worth the money depends entirely on what's on your wrist.
By Tom Whitaker
Garmin R50 vs SkyTrak+: which premium home-sim brain should you buy?
The big home-simulator decision. One does everything in a single box; the other gives you sharper numbers for far less. Here's how to choose.
By Tom Whitaker
Bushnell Tour V7 Shift review: the rangefinder most golfers should buy
Fast, confident lock-on, switchable slope and Bushnell's reliability — the all-rounder that tops the lists, and the one we recommend by default.
By Jordan Hale
Garmin Approach R50 review: the all-in-one launch monitor with the screen built in
Three cameras and a 10-inch touchscreen in one box, so you can run a full sim session with no laptop, phone or projector wired in. Convenient — at a serious price, and with a few rough edges.
By Tom Whitaker
Is a slope rangefinder worth it? (And is it legal?)
Yes for practice and casual rounds — it makes you a smarter club-picker. No for competition, where it's illegal unless you can switch it off.
By Jordan Hale
Bushnell Pro X3+ vs Garmin Z82: which premium rangefinder wins?
Two flagship lasers, two philosophies — the purist's tool versus the do-everything device. Here's who should buy which.
By Jordan Hale
GPS watch vs laser rangefinder: which should you buy first?
They solve the distance problem in opposite ways. Most golfers only need one to start — here's how to choose.
By Jordan Hale
Bushnell Pro X3+ review: the laser other lasers are measured against
It's the rangefinder you see in more tour bags than any other. Here's whether the premium price holds up.
By Jordan Hale
A cheap launch monitor will help your game more than any club you buy this year
We'll happily spend $650 on a driver we guessed at, but flinch at $190 of data that would tell us what to actually practise. That's backwards.
By Tom Whitaker
The launch monitor that broke the price floor
Personal launch monitors used to start in the thousands. This one moved the floor — and dropped the subscription.
By Tom Whitaker
Slope is the most overhyped feature on your rangefinder
It's the headline selling point on every laser — and the one feature you legally can't use when it matters most. Here's the honest take.
By Jordan Hale
Garmin Approach S70 review: the GPS watch that does almost everything
A gorgeous AMOLED screen, full course maps and a battery that lasts. Is this the only piece of distance tech most golfers need?
By Jordan Hale
The rangefinder now talks to your watch
Garmin's new laser zaps a yardage straight to your wrist — the most genuinely new idea in distance gear this year.
By Jordan Hale
Garmin R10 vs Shot Scope LM1: the budget launch-monitor face-off
Two ways to get real numbers without remortgaging — which one fits how you'll actually use it.
By Jordan Hale
SkyTrak+ review: the home-sim launch monitor that earns its price
Near sim-grade accuracy without the five-figure outlay. If you're building a serious garage setup, this is where the numbers get real.
By Tom Whitaker
Launch monitors explained: what your money actually buys
Radar vs photometric, the numbers that matter, and where to jump in at every budget — in plain English.
By Tom Whitaker
Garmin Approach R10 review: it will tell you your 150 club carries 138
Pocket radar, app simulator and on-course tracking for the price of a good rangefinder. Still the best-value way to find out what your game actually does.
By Ben Marsden
The personal launch monitor is now an impulse buy
Real radar numbers used to start in the thousands. A new wave of devices — no subscription, screen built in — has blown the door open.
By Tom Whitaker
How much should you spend on a rangefinder?
They all measure the same yardage. Here's what your money actually buys above the basics — and where it stops mattering.
By Jordan Hale
GPS watch vs phone app vs handheld: how should you get your distances?
Three ways to know how far it is, and they suit very different golfers. The honest pros and cons of each.
By Jordan Hale
Rapsodo MLM2 Pro review: the camera-and-radar unit that punches above its price
Video, real numbers and simulator play for the price of a posh rangefinder. The step-up launch monitor, honestly assessed.
By Tom Whitaker
Nikon Coolshot Pro II review: the laser for anyone whose hands aren't steady
The best glass in the mid-tier and stabilisation that genuinely works. The smart-money laser if you play in dull light or your hands aren't rock steady.
By Ben Marsden
How to build a garage golf simulator on a budget
Year-round golf in your garage is more achievable than you think. The honest shopping list, what to spend on, and where to save.
By Tom Whitaker
Garmin R10 vs Rapsodo MLM2 Pro: which budget launch monitor wins?
The two devices most home-data golfers agonise over. They're closer than the spec sheets suggest — here's how to choose.
By Tom Whitaker