Ball speed retention
Speed Holdover: What the Face Gives Back on a Miss
The club that wins on peak ball speed is frequently the wrong club for your bag. Here is the figure we score instead.
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Notes From the Bench
Six pieces on the three things we spend the most bay time measuring. Written by the people holding the gauge, aimed at golfers who want the reasoning rather than the conclusion.
Ball speed retention
The Heel-to-Toe Gradient Nobody Charts
Horizontal misses do not lose speed symmetrically, and the asymmetry says more about your driver than the centre figure does.
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Hosel Setback and the Club You Trust at Address
Offset is a sight-line decision disguised as a performance one. What the eye does with it, and why it changes your delivery.
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Progression Drift: When the 8-Iron Stops Matching the 4
Every set changes shape as it climbs. Some do it smoothly and some jump, and the jump is where confidence disappears.
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What the Leading Edge Does Under Load
A sole resting on a workshop bench tells you next to nothing. The geometry that counts is the one present while your weight is driving through the club.
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The Divot as a Gauge: Depth, Direction, Taper
A free measurement instrument that most golfers walk past forty times a round without reading.
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Why only three subjects
These Are the Measurements That Change Decisions
There is no shortage of things a launch monitor will happily report, and most of them are downstream of something simpler. Speed holdover, face progression and turf interaction are the three readings that, in our experience, actually change which club goes in a bag.
Everything else on the screen tends to follow from them. So rather than write forty shallow pieces we would rather write six that go far enough to be useful when you are standing in a shop.
Reading About It Is the Cheap Part
Seeing your own holdover figures next to a reference club is where any of this becomes concrete.