Golf

About this category

What we cover in golf

Golf gear marketing leans hard on tour-player endorsements and tiny stat improvements that won't show up in your scorecard. GearScout's golf guides are written for amateurs — the 12-to-25 handicaps who actually buy most of the clubs sold each year. We compare drivers, fairway woods, hybrids, irons, wedges, and putters by what they do for typical mid-handicap swing speeds, not for a tour player; cover rangefinders and launch monitors (from $100 phone-clip units up to home-simulator-grade Foresights and Trackmans); review balls by spin profile and price; and walk through bags, push carts, and the apparel that holds up to 18 holes in summer heat. Where a fitting is worth the money, we say so. Where last year's model gets you 95% of the way for 60% of the price, we say that too. Prices verified at publish; rechecked on a fixed schedule.