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A $67 (£50.24) Costco Wedge Beat the Vokey SM11 in MyGolfSpy's 2026 Test — and the Gap Was Consistency, Not SpinMizuno's JPX One Won Best Hybrid 2026 on a 9.8 Accuracy Score — Then MyGolfSpy Published the CatchSrixon's ZXi RKT Woods Hit Retail on 16 October: $649.99 (£490.68) Drivers, Three Heads, No Independent NumbersChrome Tour Triple Diamond Posted a 0.5-Point Compression Symmetry — and Still Only Scored 94MyGolfSpy's Two Top-Scoring Fairway Woods of 2026 Don't Appear in PGA Tour Superstore's Best-Seller DataWilson's Staff Model Went 36 for 36 in Ball Lab — at $49.99 (£37.81), Eight Dollars Under the Tour Ball NormTitleist's 2027 Pro V1 Enters Global Validation in Japan — Seven Months In, Still No NumbersThe Highest-Spinning Wedge in MyGolfSpy's 2026 Test Finished 10 Inches Further From the HoleSrixon's Black Boxes at Asheville Open the 2027 Ball Cycle — With Not a Single Number AttachedKaddieIQ's ball database grows to 325 tracked models in V10 refreshThe USGA and R&A's Three Tour-Only Limits Don't Change a Single Number - They Delete the TolerancesMyGolfSpy Declined to Name One 2026 Ball Winner - Its High-Flight Distance Pick Still Spun 5,693 rpm From 35 YardsToday's Golfer Robot Tested 11 DTC Balls - and Eight of Them Finished Within 0.8 YardsSolheim Cup Drew an Estimated 80,000 to Bernardus - Fewer Than Gleneagles Managed in 2019Titleist Puts AIM Markings on Every Ball It Sells - and Nothing Changes Inside ThemSrixon's Z-Star Diamond Passed All 36 Balls in Ball Lab - and Still Only Scored 89LIV Golf's Chapter 11 Filing Puts Rahm Top of the Creditor List at $7.5m (£5.7m)Shot Scope Has Women Gaining 8 Yards Off the Tee. Arccos Has Them Losing 3.5 Since 2018.Tour Edge's Exotics Milled Wedges Hit Retail on 14 September at $119.99 (£90.38)MyGolfSpy's 2026 Ball Test: Urethane Kept 90% of Its Wedge Spin in the Wet, Ionomer Kept 55%Four Tour-Only Pro V1s Were in Play at The Open - and About 90% of the Field Didn't Use ThemChrome Tour Was the Only Ball of 62 to Carry Past 275 Yards at Today's Golfer's Fast BracketTitleist Rebuilds Tour Soft and Velocity: £39.99 and £29.99, and the First New Velocity Since 2022No Second Returning Member Program: Rolapp Rules Out a New Route Back for Rahm, DeChambeau and SmithTopgolf Targets 10 Million New Golfers by 2030 - Double the Green-Grass Gain of the Past Six YearsTaylorMade's Hi-Toe 5 Lands With Five Grinds, 50° to 60°, and No Independent Spin DataToday's Golfer Ranked 62 Balls for Consistency: the Pro V1 Finished 16th for Speed and First OverallMyGolfSpy's Ball Lab Gave the Snell PR3 a Perfect Good Ball Rate - and an F for Compression SymmetryToday's Golfer's 2026 Iron Test Found a 1,500 rpm Spin Gap - With Every Shot Hit on the Same BallUSGA and R&A Reopen the Rollback: One 2030 Date, and Doubts About Their Own Ball TestToday's Golfer's 2026 Robot Test Replaced a Full Wedge With a 40-Yard 56° ShotMyGolfSpy's 2026 Ball Test: At 65 mph, Your Cover Barely Matters Until You Reach the GreenWomen's Golf Is Growing Faster Than the Men's GameA Budget Ball Nearly Matched a Tour Ball at 114mphGolf Ball Season 2026: What's Actually New (and What's Just Marketing)The Ball Rollback Won't Touch Your Bag
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A $67 (£50.24) Costco Wedge Beat the Vokey SM11 in MyGolfSpy's 2026 Test — and the Gap Was Consistency, Not Spin
Both wedges scored an identical 9.0 for spin. The separation came from somewhere less glamorous.
Read →Mizuno's JPX One Won Best Hybrid 2026 on a 9.8 Accuracy Score — Then MyGolfSpy Published the Catch
The outlet that crowned the winner also wrote the reason it won't suit every golfer.
Read →Srixon's ZXi RKT Woods Hit Retail on 16 October: $649.99 (£490.68) Drivers, Three Heads, No Independent Numbers
A full woods family arrives with a speed-and-MOI story told entirely by the brand that built it.
Read →Chrome Tour Triple Diamond Posted a 0.5-Point Compression Symmetry — and Still Only Scored 94
MyGolfSpy's Ball Lab found zero defects in 36 balls, then marked it down on weight and diameter at $57.99 (£43.81) a dozen
Read →MyGolfSpy's Two Top-Scoring Fairway Woods of 2026 Don't Appear in PGA Tour Superstore's Best-Seller Data
The clubs golfers actually buy track brand familiarity more closely than test scores — and one 18th-place finisher sells fine.
Read →Wilson's Staff Model Went 36 for 36 in Ball Lab — at $49.99 (£37.81), Eight Dollars Under the Tour Ball Norm
A 90/100 card with one C on it: compression symmetry was the only grade that let it down.
Read →Titleist's 2027 Pro V1 Enters Global Validation in Japan — Seven Months In, Still No Numbers
Four players have already gamed it in competition. One shot a career-best 62. Neither of those is a ball test.
Read →The Highest-Spinning Wedge in MyGolfSpy's 2026 Test Finished 10 Inches Further From the Hole
Winning the spin column and winning the shot turned out to be two different things — and moisture widened the gap.
Read →Srixon's Black Boxes at Asheville Open the 2027 Ball Cycle — With Not a Single Number Attached
Lucas Glover has a new Diamond in play, Titleist appears to have moved its validation early, and none of it tells you anything yet.
Read →KaddieIQ's ball database grows to 325 tracked models in V10 refresh
Twenty-six new balls added, thirty-six manufacturers still covered end to end, and not a single model deleted from the record - a look at what's changed under the hood of the database behind KaddieIQFIT.
Read →The USGA and R&A's Three Tour-Only Limits Don't Change a Single Number - They Delete the Tolerances
A 317-yard ball cap, a 239-microsecond driver and a shorter club limit, opt-in from 2028, with manufacturers' comments due 21 October.
Read →MyGolfSpy Declined to Name One 2026 Ball Winner - Its High-Flight Distance Pick Still Spun 5,693 rpm From 35 Yards
The 2026 picks are split by construction, flight and spin instead of ranked, which is closer to how a fitting works than a leaderboard is.
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- 18 Oct 2026A $67 (£50.24) Costco Wedge Beat the Vokey SM11 in MyGolfSpy's 2026 Test — and the Gap Was Consistency, Not Spin2 min
- 18 Oct 2026Mizuno's JPX One Won Best Hybrid 2026 on a 9.8 Accuracy Score — Then MyGolfSpy Published the Catch2 min
- 16 Oct 2026Srixon's ZXi RKT Woods Hit Retail on 16 October: $649.99 (£490.68) Drivers, Three Heads, No Independent Numbers3 min
- 13 Oct 2026Chrome Tour Triple Diamond Posted a 0.5-Point Compression Symmetry — and Still Only Scored 942 min
- 10 Oct 2026MyGolfSpy's Two Top-Scoring Fairway Woods of 2026 Don't Appear in PGA Tour Superstore's Best-Seller Data3 min
- 9 Oct 2026Wilson's Staff Model Went 36 for 36 in Ball Lab — at $49.99 (£37.81), Eight Dollars Under the Tour Ball Norm2 min
- 7 Oct 2026Titleist's 2027 Pro V1 Enters Global Validation in Japan — Seven Months In, Still No Numbers2 min
- 5 Oct 2026The Highest-Spinning Wedge in MyGolfSpy's 2026 Test Finished 10 Inches Further From the Hole3 min
- 1 Oct 2026Srixon's Black Boxes at Asheville Open the 2027 Ball Cycle — With Not a Single Number Attached2 min
- 27 Sept 2026KaddieIQ's ball database grows to 325 tracked models in V10 refresh3 min
- 27 Sept 2026The USGA and R&A's Three Tour-Only Limits Don't Change a Single Number - They Delete the Tolerances3 min
- 27 Sept 2026MyGolfSpy Declined to Name One 2026 Ball Winner - Its High-Flight Distance Pick Still Spun 5,693 rpm From 35 Yards2 min
- 27 Sept 2026Today's Golfer Robot Tested 11 DTC Balls - and Eight of Them Finished Within 0.8 Yards3 min
- 27 Sept 2026Solheim Cup Drew an Estimated 80,000 to Bernardus - Fewer Than Gleneagles Managed in 20192 min
- 27 Sept 2026Titleist Puts AIM Markings on Every Ball It Sells - and Nothing Changes Inside Them4 min
- 26 Sept 2026Srixon's Z-Star Diamond Passed All 36 Balls in Ball Lab - and Still Only Scored 892 min
- 25 Sept 2026LIV Golf's Chapter 11 Filing Puts Rahm Top of the Creditor List at $7.5m (£5.7m)2 min
- 25 Sept 2026Shot Scope Has Women Gaining 8 Yards Off the Tee. Arccos Has Them Losing 3.5 Since 2018.2 min
- 23 Sept 2026Tour Edge's Exotics Milled Wedges Hit Retail on 14 September at $119.99 (£90.38)2 min
- 22 Sept 2026MyGolfSpy's 2026 Ball Test: Urethane Kept 90% of Its Wedge Spin in the Wet, Ionomer Kept 55%3 min
- 22 Sept 2026Four Tour-Only Pro V1s Were in Play at The Open - and About 90% of the Field Didn't Use Them2 min
- 19 Sept 2026Chrome Tour Was the Only Ball of 62 to Carry Past 275 Yards at Today's Golfer's Fast Bracket3 min
- 15 Sept 2026Titleist Rebuilds Tour Soft and Velocity: £39.99 and £29.99, and the First New Velocity Since 20223 min
- 11 Sept 2026No Second Returning Member Program: Rolapp Rules Out a New Route Back for Rahm, DeChambeau and Smith2 min
- 7 Sept 2026Topgolf Targets 10 Million New Golfers by 2030 - Double the Green-Grass Gain of the Past Six Years3 min
- 3 Sept 2026TaylorMade's Hi-Toe 5 Lands With Five Grinds, 50° to 60°, and No Independent Spin Data2 min
- 30 Aug 2026Today's Golfer Ranked 62 Balls for Consistency: the Pro V1 Finished 16th for Speed and First Overall2 min
- 26 Aug 2026MyGolfSpy's Ball Lab Gave the Snell PR3 a Perfect Good Ball Rate - and an F for Compression Symmetry2 min
- 22 Aug 2026Today's Golfer's 2026 Iron Test Found a 1,500 rpm Spin Gap - With Every Shot Hit on the Same Ball2 min
- 18 Aug 2026USGA and R&A Reopen the Rollback: One 2030 Date, and Doubts About Their Own Ball Test3 min
- 14 Aug 2026Today's Golfer's 2026 Robot Test Replaced a Full Wedge With a 40-Yard 56° Shot3 min
- 10 Aug 2026MyGolfSpy's 2026 Ball Test: At 65 mph, Your Cover Barely Matters Until You Reach the Green2 min
- 10 Aug 2026Women's Golf Is Growing Faster Than the Men's Game3 min
- 10 Aug 2026A Budget Ball Nearly Matched a Tour Ball at 114mph2 min
- 9 Aug 2026Golf Ball Season 2026: What's Actually New (and What's Just Marketing)2 min
- 8 Aug 2026The Ball Rollback Won't Touch Your Bag2 min