How Often to Regrip in a Humid Climate
The standard advice of forty rounds a year was not written for a Georgia summer. Here is what heat, humidity and sunscreen actually do to rubber, and the schedule we give people who play here.
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Bench Journal
Notes on the Unglamorous Half
Nothing here is about buying clubs. It is about keeping the ones you own inside the numbers they were built to — grips, lofts, lies, grooves, ferrules and the seasonal jobs that stop small problems becoming expensive ones.
How Far Irons Drift in One Season
We pulled the re-check readings from a year of returning customers to find out how much a set genuinely moves, which club moves first, and whether forged or cast wanders more.
Read the entryReading Groove Wear With a Fingernail
A thirty-second test you can do in a car park that tells you whether your wedges still have any spin left in them, plus what we look for on the gauge.
Read the entryThe Off-Season Bench List
Six jobs worth doing between December and February, in the order they should happen, and the two commonly recommended ones we think are a waste of money.
Read the entryFerrules, Epoxy and Quiet Failures
Most club failures do not snap dramatically. They loosen slowly inside the hosel, and the golfer adapts without noticing. Here is how to spot one before it becomes a broken shaft.
Read the entryThe Twelve-Minute Bag Audit
Everything you can usefully check at home with a ruler, a coin and good light — and the short list of things that genuinely need a machine.
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Why We Write These
Because Most of It You Can Do Yourself
A workshop that only publishes reasons to visit a workshop is not much use to anybody. Half the entries here end with “and you do not need us for this part”, which is the honest answer often enough that it seemed worth writing down.
Put a Number on It
Reading about drift is one thing. Seeing your own seven iron come off the machine a degree and a half strong is another.