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The Open 2026: Suber's Surprise Lead at Birkdale

Jackson Suber shot 5-under 65 to take the clubhouse lead after Round 1 of The Open at Royal Birkdale, a Korn Ferry Tour graduate making his Open Championship debut with just 27 holes of prior links golf to his name. Scottie Scheffler sits within range at -2; Rory McIlroy

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Sun Mountain 4.5 LS 14-Way Stand Bag Review

Independent reviews and owner data on Sun Mountain’s 4.5 LS: real weight, the stand-leg complaint worth knowing, and who the 14-way top is actually built for.

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Orange Whip Full-Size 47" Swing Trainer Review

A tempo and balance trainer built around a wobble, not a distance-training tool Most swing aids promise to fix something mechanical: your plane, your path, your face angle at impact. The Orange Whip Full-Size 47" doesn't measure any of that. It gives you a wobble

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FootJoy WeatherSof Review: The All-Conditions Glove

The FootJoy WeatherSof is the right glove for most recreational golfers who play in variable conditions: FiberSof synthetic body, cabretta leather palm patch, excellent dry grip, strong light-to-moderate wet grip, and a durability figure of 15 to 20-plus rounds per independent reviewer consensus. It isn't

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Srixon Soft Feel Review: Built for Most Golfers

The Srixon Soft Feel is the right ball for a large share of recreational golfers: compression 60, a two-piece FastLayer core designed to maximize distance for moderate swing speeds, and an ionomer cover that produces workable greenside feel at around $27 a dozen. For golfers with swing speeds under

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The Right Order to Fit Your Own Driver

Fit your own driver in the right order: length, then loft, then shaft, then face angle. Skip a step and you fit the wrong target.

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The 10-Shot Validation Check: Range to Course

Most golfers practice. Fewer test whether that practice transferred. The gap between those two things is where handicaps stall, and it's the problem the 10-Shot Validation System is designed to close. 1. 1The 10-Shot Validation Check is an exit protocol, not a drill. You run it

Golf Strategy

How to Break 100 With the Swing You Already Have

Breaking 100 is a strategy problem, not a swing problem. The data on where 100+ golfers lose strokes points to big-number holes, three-putts, and short-game decisions inside 100 yards, not driving distance.

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What Is Strokes Gained? A Golfer's Plain-English Guide

Strokes gained appears on Arccos dashboards, Shot Scope summaries, and Garmin Golf reports. Most golfers glance at it, don't fully understand what it's measuring, and move on. That's a mistake, because strokes gained is probably the single most useful piece of data an amateur

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Buying a Used Launch Monitor: What to Check Before You Pay

The launch monitor total cost guide on this site lays out the five-year TCO for every major device on the market. A predictable follow-up question arrives: what if I bought used? The honest answer is that it depends almost entirely on how the device handles subscriptions. A used

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What to Expect From a Custom Club Fitting (And When It's Worth It)

There are two things most golfers believe about custom fittings that aren't quite right. The first is that fitting is something you earn: you need to be a certain level of player before it's worth your time or money. This is backwards. A higher handicapper playing

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What Is Smash Factor? (And How to Improve Yours)

If you've spent any time with a launch monitor, you've seen the number. Smash factor sits there alongside ball speed and club head speed, gets glanced at, and then gets ignored in favor of carry distance. That's a mistake, and a correctable one: smash

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Launch Monitor Total Cost: A 5-Year Guide

The price you see on the product page isn't the price you'll pay over five years. For most launch monitors in this comparison, hardware accounts for 80% or more of the total five-year cost. The remaining 20% arrives in layers: annual platform subscriptions, sim software

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What is a launch monitor?

A launch monitor is a device that measures the physics of your golf swing and ball flight, including club head speed, ball speed, launch angle, spin rate, and carry distance. It gives you accurate, objective data about your game instead of estimates.

Do I need a launch monitor to improve?

No, but having one makes your practice more efficient. Without data, you are guessing whether a swing change is working. With a launch monitor, you can see exactly what changed and whether it moved in the right direction.

How does Launch Point Golf review equipment?

James Whitfield synthesizes published data from independent testing labs (MyGolfSpy robot testing, Golf Digest equipment labs), verified club fitter and instructor assessments, and long-term ownership reports. He does not run his own launch monitor sessions. Every performance claim is attributed to a named source with a date.

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Best Golf Balls for Mid-Handicappers: 5 Compared

Five real options, sorted by what you actually want more of: distance, feel, spin, forgiveness, or value If you want one fast answer for your exact handicap bracket, the Golf Balls by Handicap guide already gives you that. This piece does something different: it puts five solid mid-handicap balls

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