These are the two default wedges in golf and they're sold on genuinely different premises. One gives you more ways to match your turf; the other keeps its spin longer. Which matters depends entirely on where you practise.
By Ross Hamilton
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
A survey of 391 golfers this year put wedges among the highest-turnover clubs in the bag. The odd part is that the thing being replaced usually isn't the thing that's broken.
By Ross Hamilton
The EZPZ Reverse Torque putter goes on sale today with a premise that sounds like a typo: torque in a putter isn't the enemy, and removing all of it was never the point.
By Ross Hamilton
A study this year found small brands scoring favourability alongside companies fifty times their size. That's worth understanding properly, because "cult" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
By Dan Mercer
The feed
The Quantum Mini Spinner launches today in 21, 24 and 27 degrees. We keep dated records of 53 professional bags — the 7-wood is in 17 of them, the 9-wood in three, and the 11-wood in none at all.
By Jordan Hale
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 ifrothgolf
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
We checked the shaft in all 49 tour drivers we track. Every single one lists a premium branded shaft, and not one lists a generic stock option. That gap is where most amateur driver money goes wrong.
By ifrothgolf
Callaway's Spin Pocket wedge lands a lower, spinnier flight for about the same money as a Vokey. It is the one I would buy for firm turf and full shots, and the wrong call if your short game lives in soft sand.
By ifrothgolf
We counted the putters in 49 current tour bags. The gap between what the best players use and what the shop will sell you is real, it is much bigger for some brands than others, and it should change how you shop.
By ifrothgolf
Every home sim budget on the internet lists the sensor, the screen, the mat and the projector. Two line items decide whether the room is actually good, and neither one is on the list.
By Marcus Bell
Nobody in your fourball is cheating. They are guessing, and the guesses run in the same three directions: the wrong reference point in a penalty area, the forgotten option on an unplayable ball, and the nearest nice bit of grass instead of the nearest point of complete relief.
By Tom Whitaker
One is built around maximum stability, the other around a compact 450cc low-spin head that asks you to find the middle. Golfers cross-shop them on brand loyalty every week, and roughly half of them walk out with the wrong one.
By Jordan Hale
A shell has exactly 2 jobs, and neither of them is warmth. Spend the money the other way round and you'll be more comfortable in October than the bloke in the premium jacket and a cotton hoodie.
By Dan Mercer
A dead glove doesn't feel like broken kit, it feels like a swing fault. The tell is a shiny heel pad, not a hole — and it shows up about 3 rounds before most golfers notice.
By Ross Hamilton
Peak season sells you the calmest, busiest, priciest version of a course built entirely around wind. The golf those places were designed for arrives in the 6 weeks after the schools go back — and the tee times are being handed out right now.
By Callum Reid
Takomo made Grant Horvat and both Bryan brothers shareholders, not just ambassadors. That's a smarter deal than sponsorship and a harder one to read as a viewer — so here is what the number actually supports, and what it doesn't.
By ifrothgolf
Neither of these goes further than the other. The honest split is turf interaction, shaping and whose fitting cart you can actually get into — and a lot of buyers at this tier are paying for a head when they never made a shaft decision.
By Jordan Hale
A slot for every club sounds like the end of the tangle. It isn't — what actually matters is whether those 14 dividers run to the base, and most shoppers never check.
By Tom Whitaker
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
The best strikers alive putt with the most forgiving heads in golf. The golfer who actually needs the forgiveness buys a slim blade because it looks right at address. That is backwards, it isn't really a taste question, and in 2026 there is no good reason left for it.
By Ross Hamilton
A spiked shoe tells you when it is finished: you can see the worn cleat and replace it for pennies. A spikeless outsole never does. The lugs quietly round off somewhere around 50 to 80 rounds, the upper keeps looking immaculate, and you start blaming your swing for a slip that is actually your left shoe.
By Dan Mercer
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
Firm summer fairways hand you roll you never had to buy, and firm greens refuse to hold. The 38-compression ball you sensibly chose in April is now optimised for the half of the shot the ground is already doing for you.
By Ross Hamilton
Tour gear
The exact clubs the world's best play right now — sourced, date-stamped and linked to every model.
Scottie Scheffler
PGA Tour
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PGA Tour
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LIV Golf
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LIV Golf
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PGA Tour
Collin Morikawa
PGA Tour
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LPGA Tour
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