Step-by-step drills and fixes you can take straight to the range or the course.
How to Use a Launch Monitor to Improve Your Game
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.
How to Set Up a Golf Simulator in Your Garage
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.
High-spin wedge with multiple grinds and data to support the price
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
High-MOI driver where the forgiveness data matches the hype
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 practising 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.
Your launch monitor is showing you eight numbers you don't fully understand. Here's which three matter for a mid-handicapper, what they should look like, and what to change when they're off.
Three shots a round is 12 shots over four rounds. That’s the difference between a 15-handicap and an 8. Almost none of it is about your swing.
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.
