Expert tips, guides, and insights to help you play your best golf.
Links vs Parkland Golf
What actually changes between the two course types, and how to adjust your game for each.
Play a links course after a season of parkland golf and the first thing
Golfers argue about this one more than almost any other fitness question in the game, usually without any numbers on the table. The honest answer sits between the two camps: walking burns meaningfully more energy and racks up far more steps than riding, but the case that it automatically lowers
A diagnose, prioritize, periodize system built for the off-season, not a single session at the range.
A breakdown of golf's five most common injuries, lower back, elbow, shoulder, wrist, and hip/knee, and the free prevention work that beats any recovery gadget.
Blade, players-cavity, or game-improvement: the mechanism behind each iron design, the real tradeoffs, and the myth about ball-striking no iron head can fix.
A home golf simulator is one of the few golf gifts big enough to change how someone plays the game year-round, and one of the few expensive enough to turn into regret if it's bought on impulse. With Father's Day in Australia landing September 6
Cold air costs distance, wet turf changes contact, and daylight runs out fast. Here's the club, gear, and rules-of-golf math to keep fall rounds scoring.
Buying golf gear for someone else is a specific kind of guesswork: wrong glove size, wrong ball for his swing speed, a gadget he'll never plug in. If the deadline is this Sunday, or any other day you need a gift that actually gets used, these ten picks are grouped by golfer, not just by price.
Building a 14-club setup that fits your game, not a number you feel obligated to hit.
A no-gym, no-gear strength routine that leads with anti-rotation stability, then hip/glute and rotational power, so any golfer can build swing consistency and speed at home.
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.
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.
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.
