Equipment
The Training Aids Actually Worth Your Money
The training aid industry runs on the same fuel as the diet industry: the gap between who we are and who we would like to be, plus a credit card. Every golfer …
Equipment
Equipment
The Case for Buying Used Golf Clubs
Walk into a pro shop this season and the price tags will do the talking. A new driver from any of the major manufacturers now sits comfortably north of what a …
Equipment
The Adjustable Hosel: What All Those Settings on Your Driver Actually Do
Most amateurs who own an adjustable driver have used the wrench exactly once, on the day they bought it, and have been faintly afraid of it ever since. The …
Equipment
The Mini Driver: The Club Quietly Replacing the Three-Wood
The mini driver, for most of the last decade, was a club category most amateur golfers had heard of without ever seeing one in person. The category existed in …
Equipment
Wedge Bounce: The Number on the Sole You Have Probably Never Checked
There is a number stamped on the back of every wedge, usually next to the loft, that almost no recreational golfer has ever consciously checked. The loft is the …
Equipment
Steel or Graphite Iron Shafts: Why Age Is the Wrong Way to Decide
There is a moment that happens in nearly every iron fitting at nearly every reasonable fitting bay in the country. The player, who is somewhere between forty …
Equipment
The Driver Loft Most Amateurs Have Wrong, and What Happens When You Add Two Degrees
The recreational golfer who walks into a pro shop on a Saturday morning and asks for a new driver will, in roughly nine cases out of ten, end up with a head …
Equipment
How to Pick a Golf Glove That Actually Fits
Of all the equipment decisions a recreational golfer makes, the glove is the one taken with the least thought. The driver is fitted on a launch monitor. The …
Equipment
Golf Shoes: The Equipment Choice That Is Actually About Walking
There is a piece of equipment in the game that touches the player for every minute of the four hours they are on the course, and that almost no amateur thinks …
Equipment
Regripping: The Cheapest Stroke You Can Save
There is a specific kind of amateur golfer who will spend three thousand dollars on a new set of irons, eight hundred on a putter fitting, and four hundred on a …