Equipment
MOI Matching: Why Your Irons Are Built Differently Now
For most of the modern era, iron sets have been built to a single, simple target: matched swing weight. Every club in the bag, from the 4-iron down to the …
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One-Length Irons: Who They Actually Help
Every so often an idea that has been sitting on the fringes of the equipment world for decades finds its moment, and one-length irons are having theirs. The …
Equipment
Stand Bag or Cart Bag: What Actually Matters When You Choose
Most golfers buy a bag the way they buy a wallet: once, without much thought, and then use it for a decade regardless of whether it ever suited them. That is a …
Equipment
Regular, Stiff, Whatever: Why Your Shaft Flex Label Barely Means Anything
Ask most golfers why they play a stiff shaft rather than a regular one and the answer usually comes back the same way: because someone once told them their …
Equipment
What Actually Matters When Choosing a Golf Ball (It Isn't Compression)
Ask ten amateurs why they play the ball currently sitting in their bag and at least half will mention compression at some point, usually something like “I …
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What a Driver Fitting Actually Changes
There is a particular kind of golfer who walks into a fitting bay convinced he already knows the answer. He wants the head the longest hitter on Tour is using, …
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Gapping Your Set: The Yardages Hiding Between Your Clubs
Ask most golfers how far they hit their seven iron and they will give you a number with great confidence. Ask them how far they hit the club between their …
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 …