How to choose the right golf ball
The ball is the only thing you touch on every shot, and the one most golfers choose by price. Choosing properly takes exactly one round.
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Advice, tests and what we learn in the workshop and out on the course.
Tips & advice
How to choose the right wedge
Loft is the least important thing about a wedge. Bounce and grind decide it, and most amateurs have both wrong, which explains their relationship with bunkers.
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Tips & advice
Tips & advice
Reading greens and holing more putts
Forty per cent of your shots come from the putter, and yet most golfers practise their driver. Here is a green-reading system you can learn in three sessions.
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Tips & advice
Playing in the rain: what you actually need
It rains on roughly every fifth round in Slovakia. With three right things in the bag you will finish all eighteen without once thinking about walking in.
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Tips & advice
How to choose the right wedge
Loft is the least important thing about a wedge. Bounce and grind decide it, and most amateurs have both wrong, which explains their relationship with bunkers.
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Service
When is it actually time to replace your clubs
The marketing says every year. Reality says a driver lasts five seasons, a wedge two and irons can do a decade. Here are the signs that a club genuinely is finished.
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Tips & advice
Manual or electric trolley: which is better?
An electric trolley costs four times what a manual one does. It starts to pay off at about twenty rounds a year, and mostly on hilly courses. We ran the numbers.
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Reviews
What the new Odyssey Ai-DUAL putters actually bring
Odyssey says a dual-layer insert finally settles the old trade-off between soft feel and ball speed. We put it on SAM PuttLab, and the difference is measurable — just not as large as the advertising suggests.
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Service
How to look after your golf clubs
Five minutes after a round adds years to a set and protects its trade-in value. Here is the routine we use in our workshop, and the things that genuinely cause damage.
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Tips & advice
Golf ball compression: what the number really means
Compression is the most misunderstood number on a box of golf balls. Here is why an 80 mph swing has no business playing a Pro V1x, and what actually happens to the core at impact.
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