About Fairway Shelf

Most golf gear reviews happen at the range on day one. This one gets written after round thirty or forty, in real conditions. August at Papago, where the asphalt near the cart path gets hot enough that a push cart's wheels start tracking differently by the back nine. That's the kind of thing that only shows up after you've been out enough times to notice.

Golf replaced running for me in 2020. Knee surgery ended the miles. The surgeon gave me a short list of what I could still do, and golf was on it. Hadn't played seriously in twenty years. Started over. Found that the obsessive-tracking habit that ran my training logs transferred directly. Every round now gets logged: course, date, conditions, which ball, any gear change since last time. After forty rounds on the same push cart, that notebook has actual data. Not impressions.

Two or three rounds a week at three Phoenix valley public courses. Real estate broker by day. Mid-handicap amateur who has bought, tested, returned, and Goodwill-donated more golf gear than makes sense to add up. Not a teaching pro. Not a club fitter. Someone who plays the rounds and writes down what happens.

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