The Daily Briefing and reference guides on launch monitor data, course management, equipment, and improvement strategy — written for golfers who want to actually get better.
A men’s league group in Boca Raton played ready golf, a playing partner skulled a chip into a moving ball on the green, and everyone just… moved on. They got it wrong. Rule 11.1b had the clean answer the whole time.
Read the briefingThe Shot Scope LM1 is reading ball speed within a mph of machines 25× its price. The floor for personal launch data has dropped through the basement.
ReadMost golfers know their full-swing yardages. Ask how far a three-quarter 55° flies and the answer is a shape in the air, a feeling, a hope.
ReadZephyr Melton hit 109 mph and was leaving distance on the table. Speed without the right spin is just noise.
ReadCan a midsize grip cause a slice? The mechanics are real enough to explain the suspicion. The answer is more complicated than the question.
ReadShot Scope’s LM1 took Best of Show at the PGA Show. The reviews all land in the same place: startlingly accurate for $199.
ReadFitzpatrick had three wins in a month. Then the GT3 cracked, and before he found a replacement, his off-the-tee rank fell from 12th to 46th.
ReadTwelve launch monitors, one reference system. Ball speed held. Spin did not. Here’s which metric to trust and which to treat as a suggestion.
ReadWyndham Clark won at four under on a course only three men had broken par at in four decades. The tee shot wasn’t the deciding factor.
ReadMcIlroy, Åberg, and Fleetwood each played Shinnecock completely differently in round one of the US Open. All three finished within a shot.
ReadJohn Barba had seen ten years of fitters. Wilson’s Fit AI found something different in five swings that a decade of human fitters had missed.
ReadA launch monitor used to be a fitting-bay luxury. This spring it became a stocking stuffer. The LM1, the Rainmaker, the Omni — access is the headline.
ReadShot Scope shipped the LM1. Reviews are close to unanimous: for $200, it reads ball speed and carry well. The price is the story.
ReadTwelve monitors watched the same swing. They agreed on most things and quietly disagreed on the one that matters most.
ReadTaylorMade halved spin volatility in two product cycles. The number that improved, the number that didn’t, and what it costs.
ReadThe Shot Scope LM1 went on sale at $199. MyGolfSpy called it the easiest “yes” in golf tech for 2026.
ReadA GOLF Top 100 Teacher argues most fat wedges trace to one of two impact patterns. Not twenty causes. Two.
ReadTour players spin a driver at 2,200–2,500 rpm. The average amateur is at 3,200–4,000. That gap isn’t technique — it’s yards disappearing in the air.
ReadAaron Rai won the PGA Championship at Aronimink. He finished 4th in strokes gained putting. The putter did what most amateurs hand to the longest hitter.
ReadMyGolfSpy’s annual driver test posted the spread that matters more than the leaderboard: longest and shortest finished fifteen yards apart.
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