Editorial Policy

How I Test

Nothing gets reviewed until I've used it long enough to have an actual opinion. What that means varies by product. A push cart needs a full season: January mornings when the dew is still on the fairway, July afternoons when the grip tape on the handle starts lifting, hilly scrambles where the braking matters more than it sounds. A putter has to survive the stretch where I love it, then the stretch where I'm convinced I hate it, then whatever I actually think once that cycle runs its course. A ball needs different conditions: calm rounds, windy days at exposed courses, the ones where it's 104 degrees and I want to see what the flight does in that air.

Every round gets logged. Course, date, temperature, which ball, any gear change since the last outing. If a product's behavior changes at round twenty-five or forty, it shows up in the notebook. Reviews here come from that log, not from first impressions.

What Doesn't Get Covered

Nothing gets covered because a company asked. No press kits, no sponsored loaners, no gift-with-review. If I can't buy it and test it across real rounds myself, it doesn't go up. That's not a principle. It's the only way to have anything worth saying about round thirty.

Affiliate Relationships

Some links here are affiliate links. Click one, buy the thing, I get a small cut, at no extra cost to you. The commission doesn't determine what gets covered. If something turns out to be junk, the review says so. The notebook sets the editorial agenda, not the affiliate relationship.

Scope

Mid-handicap amateur, Phoenix valley public courses. Reviews here are from that perspective: walking-friendly setups, gear behavior in desert heat, durability across fifty-plus rounds. Tour-spec performance and custom fitting are outside my experience. Use this as input from someone who plays a lot and tracks what happens, not as a final authority on anything.

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