The Good Stuff

Banned Gear

What it broke, whether it survives contact with physics, and who should actually bother.

Everything here broke a rule to exist. We tell you which one, whether the mechanism holds up, and where you can play it. What we won't do is invent a number — if we haven't put something on a launch monitor, we say so instead of publishing a rating we made up. Plenty of sites will do that for you.

Polara Self-Correcting Balls: The Ball That Won't Slice Non-conforming

Asymmetrical dimples, a claimed 75% less hook and slice, and a lawsuit that cost the USGA over a million dollars. Banned for breaking spherical symmetry. We have not tested it.

More pages in this section are in production — see the content roadmap for what is coming.