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Are you ‘winterizing?’ Kelan McDonagh, a GOLF Teacher to Watch and the director of instruction at Metedeconk National, showed me how.

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Tiger Woods will soon be eligible for the senior tour, and one major winner wants him to "dip a toe" and see if it's for him.

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Harbour Town, home of the PGA Tour's RBC Heritage, reopened following a restoration involving Davis Love III as a player-consultant.

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The Indiana Fever star was back for her second outing in the LPGA's Annika pro-am.

Kai Trump doesn't have any expectations at this week's Annika, but she did glean advice from Tiger Woods and Annika Sorenstam.

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A marshal at a course in Colorado was told by a doctor he might have died, if not for the work of Tommy, his Labrador retriever service dog.

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For Rory McIlroy to be denied another seasonlong Race to Dubai title, Marco Penge is going to have to pull off the biggest win yet.

Subpar podcast co-hosts Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz make their favorite bets for the 2025 Butterfield Bermuda Championship.

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The new Bushnell “Circle B” Launch Pro launch monitors are being released today and, frankly, we’re a little perplexed.

Not about the quality or performance of the products, mind you. The Bushnell Launch Pro is a superb launch monitor, finishing just a whisker behind the Garmin R50 in MyGolfSpy testing last year. What has us flummoxed is that, as far as we can see, the new “Circle B” models are virtually the same as the models they’re replacing, just with a new color scheme.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Aside from packaging, the only new addition we can see is a new, lower-priced software subscription tier.

Let’s take a closer look.

Ready to start your holiday shopping? Jones Sports Co. is offering a 40 percent off deal that you don't want to miss.

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How to watch the 2025 Annika LPGA event this week, including a full Annika TV schedule and streaming details.

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The 2025 Butterfield Bermuda Championship begins on Thursday. Here are 6 picks our expert loves — and why he thinks you should too.

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How to watch the 2025 DP World Tour Championship this week, including a full DP World Tour Championship TV schedule.

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Beginners lose golf balls—lots of them. That’s just how the game starts; we’ve all been there. But once you look past the “I’m going to lose a few” reality, beginners are also at the most formative point in their golf life.

The wrong ball can nudge habits in the wrong direction: too little spin to hold greens, too much spin that balloons off the tee or a feel that masks poor contact.

So I looked at the 2025 ball test data with four things in mind: value (you’ll lose some), performance (speed/flight/spin that actually helps) and feel (so feedback isn’t confusing).

Here are a few golf balls I’d suggest if you’re starting out and want to make sure your golf ball isn’t working against you.

Maxfli Tour — Best first urethane ball

In 2025 testing, the Maxfli Tour again stood out as the mid-price sweet spot. It offered balanced performance, solid ball speed, playable trajectory and reliable wedge spin at a price beginners can justify. It’s not the longest or softest but it does everything well and gives you a feel for what real urethane performance is supposed to be.

When you talk about the best wedges of 2025, the Mizuno Pro T-3 dominated the entire test. It was the most accurate, consistent and highest spinning. If it’s not a fit for your golf game, there are other options. Some we didn’t quite expect to be as good as they were.

These three wedges didn’t get the same spotlight but there is performance here that deserves more attention.

Fourteen FRZ

MGS Score: 8.7 | Accuracy: 8.7 | Consistency: 8.4 | Spin: 8.8 | Wet Spin Retention: 98.5%

We hadn’t tested a Fourteen wedge in a few years, and the anticipation around the FRZ was justified. This boutique Japanese brand came back strong, finishing third overall in our 2025 Most Wanted Wedge Test. It delivered elite spin control in dry and wet conditions.

The FRZ produced consistent accuracy from full swings to chips and was one of only a handful of models that retained spin when moisture was introduced.

If you’ve been reading MGS the past couple of years, you probably know my feelings on golf coverage.

It’s clunky and archaic. There are too many commercials and the viewer experience is rarely considered. At times, it’s barely watchable.

That’s why I’m so high on events like the Internet Invitational bursting onto the scene. As I wrote last week, that tournament wasn’t held back by many of the issues inherent with professional golf being on TV.

That’s not to say there isn’t room for both—PGA Tour golf and pure entertainment golf—but the Tour could learn a thing or two from how golf is covered on YouTube.

Even putting that to the side, I have a lot of grievances with how Tour golf is shown on TV. Some of these are small details but small details matter.

Pins and Aces has rolled out new versions of their best selling Player Preferred golf bags today, demonstrating their commitment to the golf bag marketplace.

For most of us, Pins and Aces’ novelty headcovers first brought the brand to our attention. In 2020, I found their Joker headcover to be the perfect fit to my Joker-themed custom TaylorMade mySpider X.

Pins and Aces has come a long way since those initial covers. Not only have they massively expanded their headcover offerings but they also now offer large catalogs of apparel and other golf accessories.

Additionally, Pins and Aces has collaborated with recognizable names outside of golf including underwear company 2UNDR and Hey Dude shoes. Back in January, Pins and Aces acquired Edel Golf, giving them a presence in the golf club market as well.

Pins and Aces is growing in scope and popularity but to remain relevant, their products also need to keep improving.

You just striped a 7-iron from 155 yards, catching it pure off the center of the face. The ball launches on a perfect trajectory, lands softly and checks up three feet from the pin. That sensation, that crisp compressed contact, is what we’re all chasing.

Two swings later, same lie, same club, same target. Except this time, you chunk it, the club thudding into the turf well behind the ball. The shot limps forward maybe 110 yards. How did the exact same swing produce two completely different results?

The answer isn’t your swing. It’s where that swing bottoms out.

The problem with “just hit down on it”

Every golfer has heard this instruction. Hit down on the ball. Take a divot. Trap it against the turf. All true, but utterly useless without understanding what actually creates that descending strike.

So what do most players do? They try to force the club downward. They lunge their upper body toward the target, thinking forward movement equals a downward strike. Or they keep their weight back and try to scoop under the ball to help it up, terrified of chunking another one into oblivion.

2025 Butterfield Bermuda Championship tee times for Thursday's first round in Bermuda, featuring Sahith Theegala and more.

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President Trump and Tiger Woods both urged Kai Trump to have fun as she makes her LPGA debut this week as a sponsor's invite at The Annika.