A wood built to add spin rather than shed it, in 21, 24 and 27 degrees. The early tests agree it holds greens. The catch is a fixed hosel, so the loft you buy is the gap you get.
By Ben Marsden
Two high-speed cameras, a screen on top and the same optical method as Foresight units costing four times as much. It reads the ball and nothing else, Foresight sells it to US buyers only for now, and the software most people will want is a yearly bill.
By Ben Marsden
Two big tour mallets at similar money. The Spider comes with 21 degrees of toe hang, 30 degrees or face-balanced; the Phantom 12 comes one way. The face, the aim line and what the tour bags we track say about each.
By Ross Hamilton
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
The feed
Brooks Koepka retired his 2017 3-wood for a mini driver in Scotland and the winner carried a Ping prototype. Across the 80 tour bags we maintain the share is half the Dunhill's 29 per cent, and the club it replaces is clear.
By Tom Whitaker
Two premium camera units with their own software, and one of them is bolted to the ceiling. The R50 needs nothing else to run a round. The APOGEE needs a PC, a permanent room and a commitment to E6.
By Marcus Bell
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
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
Two 100-metre remote trolleys at the same list price. One puts a 3.5-inch GPS in the handle and five years of cover on the battery; the other skips the screen for terrain control, a flatter fold and a month to try it.
By Tom Whitaker
The women's tour swings at roughly the speed of an average male club golfer, and its median driver loft is the same 9 degrees as the men's. The reason is how the club meets the ball, and it is the part amateurs rarely copy.
By Jordan Hale
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
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
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
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
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
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'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
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'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
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'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
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
Scotty Cameron leads the men's bags we maintain by three. In the women's bags it drops to third, and the putters there are far less likely to be named prototypes. The rows, the caveats, and what to take from it.
By Ross Hamilton
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
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