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20 buying guides

Best Golf Clubs for Beginners: A First Set That Lasts

A first set is the one purchase in golf where spending more buys you the least. Here is what a beginner set needs, four that have it, and the two specifications that matter more than the badge on the head.

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Best Complete Golf Sets: What the Piece Count Hides

A complete set is sold on its piece count, which is the one number that tells you almost nothing. What decides whether a set is good is which clubs are in it and how many ways it can be built.

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Best Drivers for Beginners: Four Picks You Cannot Set Up Wrong

A first driver has one job: to be swingable and hard to set up badly. Almost every buying guide sells beginners a slice corrector instead, which assumes a miss you have not developed yet.

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Best Drivers for High Handicappers: Four Forgiving Picks

If you shoot in the high 90s, the driver decision is not about distance. It is about how far offline the bad ones go, and that is a specification you can actually shop for.

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Best Drivers for Seniors: Weight and Flex Before the Head

Almost every senior driver guide starts with the head. That is the last decision, not the first. What changes with age is how much club weight you can accelerate, and that is a specification with a number on it.

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Best Drivers for Slow Swing Speeds: The Physics and Four Picks

Under about 85 mph the driver decision stops being about preference and starts being about physics. Ball speed is capped by the rules, so the only things left to move are how high the ball leaves and how little you have to accelerate.

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Best Fairway Woods: Four Picks and Which Loft to Buy

Most golfers buy a 3 wood, hit it badly off the ground, and use it as a nervous driver instead. The data on that swap is unkind, and the club that actually earns its place is usually two lofts weaker.

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Best Game Improvement Irons: Forgiveness by the Numbers

Game improvement is a marketing phrase with a measurable definition hiding inside it. Here are the four numbers that separate the category from everything else, and four sets that publish them.

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Best Golf Clubs for Seniors: Build the Whole Bag Lighter

Changing the driver is the easy part and the smallest part. What decides how a bag plays at a slower speed is the eight clubs behind it, and that is a weight and loft decision made thirteen times over.

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Best Golf Drivers: Four Picks and the Fitting Logic

A driver is the club where the badge on the crown matters least and the four numbers on the spec sheet matter most. Here are four worth buying, what each specification changes, and how to work out which head fits the way you miss.

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Best Golf Hybrids: Four Picks and the Loft to Buy

A hybrid only works if it replaces something. Here are four worth buying, how to decide which iron comes out of the bag, and why head size and shaft length matter more than anything printed on the sole.

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Best Golf Wedges: Bounce, Grind and Four Picks

Two 56 degree wedges with different soles behave like different clubs. Here are four worth buying, what bounce and grind actually change, and why a wedge is the one club you should expect to wear out.

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Best Hybrids for Seniors: Below 85 mph, Long Irons Stop

A long iron does not become hard to hit at a slower swing speed. It stops working. A hybrid is the club that removes the speed requirement, and the specification that decides how much it removes is printed in grams.

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Best Irons for Beginners: Four Sets, and a Caveat

Irons bought on their own are the second most expensive decision in a beginner's bag and the one made with the least information. Here is what a beginner's iron has to do, four sets that do it, and the case for not buying any of them yet.

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Best Irons for Mid Handicappers: The Middle Ground

The mid handicap iron is the hardest club in golf to shop for, because it is defined by what it gives up rather than what it does. Here is the trade set out in numbers you can check.

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Best Players Irons: Control, Feel and the Strike Test

A players iron is not a better iron. It is a narrower one, and it only pays back a golfer who finds the middle of the face often enough to notice what it gives them.

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Best Putters for Beginners: Fit First, Spend Later

A beginner's putter has one job that money cannot buy and three that it can. Here is which is which, and four clubs that publish enough for you to tell.

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Best Putters: Four Picks and the Fitting Logic

A putter is the club you use most and the one nobody gets fitted for. Here are four worth buying, what each specification changes, and which ones matter far less than the shop will tell you.

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Best Wedges for Beginners: Bounce First, Loft Second

A beginner does not need a set of wedges. They need one club that will not dig, and the honesty to admit which shot is actually costing them strokes.

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Best Women's Golf Clubs: Ranked on How Well They Fit

A women's set is one specification decided in advance and applied to every buyer. The only useful way to rank them is by how many of those decisions each maker is willing to hand back to you.

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