Hot list

March 26th, 2025

Mission: Hot List

April 2025, Hot List 2025

October 23rd, 2024

Be A Little Smarter With How You Align Your Putter

One thing I love about mallet putters is how easy they are to align with your intended start line. Knowing this, I scratch my head when I give a lesson on the green and see a golfer step into their putts in a manner that makes it harder to get aligned properly. Let me explain. Read more…

October 23rd, 2024

Create Loft With Your Wedges The Easiest Way Possible

There is more than one way to add loft to a wedge shot, but some are easier than others – an important point for those who don’t have a lot of time for short-game practice. The method I teach a lot of golfers gets much of the work done at address. When trying to Read more…

October 23rd, 2024

Double Check Your Alignment With A Blade Putter

If you prefer the look of a blade putter over a mallet, that’s fine, but I’ve always felt that blade models are more challenging to align. A mallet offers more of a straight-back and straight-through feel to the stroke, but a blade seems to move on a slight in-to-in arc in relation to the line Read more…

October 23rd, 2024

You’ve Got All Those Wedges In Your Bag. Use Them!

You might have been told to get really good with one of your wedges and rely on it for most of your short-game shots. But let me ask you something: why do you have three or four wedges in your bag if you’re only going to pull out the same one every time? Get to Read more…

July 23rd, 2024

Hot List: Push, Don’t Pull, The Grip End Of A Fairway Wood

July 23rd, 2024

Hot List: Go For The Heel To Max Out Your Driver

If you want to take advantage of that fancy new driver you spent half your pay cheque on, you’ve got to learn to make contact with the ball in the sweet spot more often.

June 25th, 2024

Hot List: Pretend you’re in fairway sand to launch your driver

A common problem for amateur golfers is swinging a driver like it’s an iron.

June 25th, 2024

Hot List: New irons? Hit some punches to get a feel for them

The relationship between a player and a new set of irons can be lukewarm at first. Same for pulling your clubs out of the garage for the first time in months. They might not feel quite right at the start.

March 25th, 2024

The Hot List 2024: Roll Your Own

The Hot List is your guide to the right clubs. You’ll never settle for hire clubs again

The Hot List 2024: The Process

The Hot List turns 20: Our mission hasn’t wavered

Equipment: The results are in

Equipment: What would you pay for five more metres?

Hot list: Hall of fame

Hot List 2022 Balls: How to choose the right ball

September 21st, 2022

Hot List 2022 Balls: Want to be 12 feet closer to the hole?

Our robot testing by clubfitter Cool Clubs reveals that urethane-cover balls spin more than non-urethane-cover balls on shots around the green, sometimes twice as much. Using Foresight Sports FSX software, the difference between the lower-spinning balls and the urethane-cover balls is essentially the difference between a 10-foot putt and a 22-foot putt on a flat Read more…