Build your fourteen over the winter: a carry chart, two faults to find, and the club to swap
The closed season is the cheapest time to rebuild a golf bag. Measure every club indoors or at a municipal range, allow for cold…
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Gear
Drivers, irons, wedges, balls and cold-weather kit, judged on what changes your score rather than on the marketing. Fittings, prices and where to buy, used included.
Golf shoes for coastal rain, interior heat and frosty spring rounds
A golf shoe has one job on every swing: keep your feet from moving. In Canada the conditions range from more than a metre…
Laser or GPS on Canadian courses: blind doglegs, mountain drops and Rule 4.3
The right distance device depends on the holes you play. A GPS handles blind approaches through Ontario and Quebec forest; a laser shines on…
Used golf clubs in Canada: when to buy, where, and what to inspect
Canadian clubs spend half the year in storage, so the used market is deep and spring listings are plentiful. Buy to your specification, inspect…
Choosing a putter that aims where you look: a fitting guide for Canadian golfers
Nick Taylor's 72-foot eagle putt won the 2023 RBC Canadian Open, but club golfers win and lose their rounds from inside ten feet. Those…
Which golf ball for a Canadian season, from April frost to October
Toronto averages 7.8°C in April and 11.2°C in October, and a firm tour ball loses more in that air than a soft one. Choose…
Before you buy new irons: what a fitting can fix on the set you own
An iron fitting earns its fee by explaining your misses, not by adding yards. Book it in the Canadian off-season, ask what can be…
Buying a driver in 2026: get fitted in winter, judge it in season
The faces are all at the regulatory limit. What differs is the shaft, and that is the part most buyers never think about.
Cold-weather gear that actually works
Layers that move, hands that stay dry and a softer ball. Cold-weather golf is an equipment problem before it is a technique problem.