Fully Focused On YOUR Golf Hi Reader, The second way an iron fails your bag audit Last week I asked you to check whether any of your 14 clubs are doing nothing by measuring the yardage gaps between them. But that is only the first test. Your 5-iron might sit exactly where it should between your 4 and 6. But if you can’t produce that distance reliably, the gap exists only on paper. That is what MyGolfSpy examined this week. Their normal score when testing an iron set combines results from a...
6 days ago • 2 min read
Fully Focused On YOUR Golf Hi Reader, The ball that suits you can be the hardest to build If your swing is under 85mph, we’ve told you a soft 2-piece ball is probably right for you. This week MyGolfSpy put the best-selling one under the microscope. The Callaway Supersoft. Grade C. Not Recommended. Weight and diameter, fine. Compression, not fine. Across 36 balls the spread ran 40.3 to 53.8 — 13.5 points against a 9.7 average. Here’s the bit that's most noticeable, and it’s their line, not...
20 days ago • 1 min read
Fully Focused On YOUR Golf Hi Reader, 🏌️♂️ Same speed. 60 yards gone. Everyone chasing distance frequently starts in the same place. More speed. The data says start somewhere cheaper. Golf stats guru Lou Stagner pulled launch monitor numbers from an academy he works with. Over 100,000 swings. He then paired swings that were identical in clubhead speed, and differed only in where the ball met the face. At 86 mph: 227 yards from the middle of the club face, 190 from the low heel. At 100 mph:...
27 days ago • 2 min read
Fully Focused On YOUR Golf Hi Reader, Your handicap isn't your average Back in 2019, before the World Handicap System (WHS) arrived, we published the average handicaps for men and women in three countries - USA, England and Australia. This week we went back and lined them up against 2026. Five of the six went up! Only the American men’s average dropped, and only by four tenths of a shot. The one testable premise of WHS, that handicaps have fallen since its implementation, doesn’t show up in...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Fully Focused On YOUR Golf Hi Reader, 🏌️♂️ 🎯 Stuck between clubs - which way do you go? 147 yards. Your 8-iron carries 150. Your 9-iron carries 138. Now what? MyGolfSpy's answer is to stop focusing on the flag and start looking at the trouble. Is there water short? Take the 8 and forget the pin Bushes long? Take the 9 and accept the front edge. Deep bunkers left? Take the club that delivers the safest miss away from them And their default when nothing is shouting at you? More club, smoother...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Fully Focused On YOUR Golf Hi Reader, ⛳ The PGA Tour can't agree on driver loft. Neither should you. There's a shortcut a lot of golfers reach for when they want more distance. Buy less loft. But MyGolfSpy has just taken that idea apart. At the top of the PGA Tour's Strokes Gained off-the-tee list, there's no agreed number anywhere. Gary Woodland plays as low as 6.5°. Scottie Scheffler sits around 8°. Neal Shipley cranks a 9° head down to 7.5°. Cameron Young? An 11° head, played at 10° to...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Fully Focused On YOUR Golf Hi Reader, 🏌️♂️ The carry number that matters for the scoring end of your bag Quick question - how far do you actually carry your pitching wedge? Your number that you can reliably hit more than 80% of the time. A lot of golfers can't say with confidence. And it quietly wrecks the scoring end of the bag. And what got my thinking about this was last week’s episode of Golf.com’s Fully Equipped with Arccos' CEO Sal Syed.. For roughly 400 years, iron gapping has been...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Fully Focused On YOUR Golf In this Issue The blade putter myth: has data from two independent tests finally killed it? 110 putters, one winner: the gap at the top is bigger than you’d think. US Open - Shinnecock’s secret: the “ball-striking test” where putting won again. Hi Reader, The big reason to use a blade putter just got a severe test For years, blade putter devotees like me had one big argument when it came to the short stick: feel. Mallets might roll it better, but nothing beats the...
2 months ago • 2 min read
Fully Focused On YOUR Golf In this Issue The rollback U-turn: the USGA/R&A just admitted their own maths doesn't add up. +69 yards — what happened when three amateurs got properly fitted. Is your old driver costing you? — A 2014 club meets a 2026 launch monitor. Plus: free club fitting download, the R&A's data play and a handicap rule shakeup Hi Reader, ⛳ The rollback just admitted it doesn't add up Remember last issue, when we flagged the golf ball rollback moving toward a single 2030 date?...
2 months ago • 2 min read