Step-by-step drills and fixes you can take straight to the range or the course.
How to Hit a Bunker Shot: Get Out Every Time
Most bunker shots fail because the swing decelerates before impact. Open the clubface before you grip the club, aim your stance left of the target, enter the sand 2 inches
Why Your Driver Slices When Your Irons Don't
Your irons fade but your driver slices, and it's the same swing. Here's the geometry that explains it, and five driver-specific fixes.
High-spin wedge with multiple grinds and data to support the price
Garmin's entry-level GPS watch trades color maps and automatic shot tracking for a simpler display and 30 hours of battery life. Here's who it suits.
The PuttOut Pressure Putt Trainer earns its reputation as one of golf's most-recommended budget putting aids, and for one specific job: teaching speed control through fast, frictionless reps. It's not an alignment tool, and its micro-target humbles most players, but for pace training on
The five-step on-course game plan that stops blow-up holes from wrecking your round, for golfers shooting in the 90s and 100s.
Most golfers who own a launch monitor can tell you, after the fact, whether they've hit a draw or a fade. The path number went in-to-out, the face was closed to the path, the ball moved right-to-left. They've got the diagnostic side
Your carry numbers don't lie. If you've done a bag mapping session and you're staring at a 30-yard hole between your pitching wedge and your sand wedge, that's not a swing problem. That's a wedge system problem. Most mid-
Most golfers don't know their real carry numbers. They've got a rough idea of how far their seven-iron goes on a good swing, and they've had enough rounds where that estimate was off by 15 yards to know it costs them. But they&
How to break 80 in golf: the five stats that separate 85-shooters from 79-shooters, backed by Shot Scope data from 870,000 rounds.
A three-phase range session backed by motor learning research, five named drills, and the ball counts pros actually hit.
Regrip your own clubs in 1 to 2 hours. Worn grips widen dispersion by 10 to 11 percent (Golf Pride/TrackMan). DIY costs 110 USD vs pro shop 136 to 162 USD.
The average amateur hits down on their driver at -1.8 degrees and plays 9 or 10.5 degrees anyway. Here's a five-step process to find the right loft.
Shot Scope data shows a 25-handicapper is 3x more likely to get up and down with a 9-iron than a lob wedge. Here is the home practice system that fixes it.
You aimed at fairway-right, felt your swing curl, then watched a brand-new ball sail wide and never come home. Or worse, it kept slicing until trees swallowed it. The cause is two numbers most amateurs never measure: clubface angle decides where flight begins; swing arc, judged against that
Learn how to use a launch monitor with a 6-step framework: map your bag, lock onto three metrics, run smash factor sessions, and gap your wedges.
Set up a garage golf simulator in 7 steps. Minimum 8.5ft ceiling, right launch monitor for your depth, and the projector mistake that wastes $1,500.
How to break 90 in golf without changing your swing. The 4 data-backed fixes that move 20-handicappers from the 90s to the 80s.
5 steps to a custom golf fitting cheap, including a $175 spec-sheet trick that cuts iron costs by two-thirds without losing a single yard.
Fix a golf slice for good with the correct sequence: grip, setup, face, path, then launch monitor data. No gimmicks, just five steps that work.
A practical, data-backed plan for practicing golf at home without a garden. Putting, swing drills, nets, and launch monitors that fit a small space.
Arccos and Shot Scope data shows where mid-handicappers lose strokes. Build a home golf practice routine that targets those gaps in 30 minutes a day.
83% of three-putts start outside 30 feet. Fix distance control on the first putt and cut three-putts fast, backed by Shot Scope, Arccos, and SAM PuttLab data.
Data-backed reviews and advice that works. No brand spin.
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.
