Methodology

What "verified" means

Every club, shaft, grip and ball on a player's page traces to a specific source we can point to: a WITB (what's-in-the-bag) article, broadcast footage, a manufacturer or tour announcement, or similar public reporting. "Verified" on this site means that source exists and was checked, not that the equipment is generically plausible for that player's tour or sponsor deal. The brass checkmark next to a source link is the one recurring signal we use for this across the whole site — it always links to where the claim actually comes from.

How research works

Finding candidate equipment and bio facts is AI-assisted: an automated research process works through the player roster continuously, searching public sources and proposing what it finds, each proposal tagged with the specific source it came from. Nothing that process proposes reaches a live page on its own. A human reviews every proposal against its cited source before it's accepted — confirming the source actually says what the proposal claims, not just that a source was listed — and only then does it get published. The same review step is where a shaky or dead citation gets caught and rejected even if the underlying fact is probably true elsewhere; see the next section.

Research isn't a one-time pass. It runs continuously, so a player's page can grow or change as new sources turn up. The changelog shows real growth over time, not a static claim.

What we don't do

• We don't guess equipment from a sponsorship deal or a generic "pros on this tour usually play X." If a player's actual gear isn't verifiable from a real, checkable source, that player gets a bio page and no equipment listed at all — not a plausible-sounding guess. That's a deliberate, visible gap, not an oversight.
• We don't treat a dead or unreachable link as acceptable sourcing, even when the underlying fact is probably correct. A citation that can't be checked doesn't get to stand in for one that can.
• We don't publish sourcing or verification notes as if they were reader content. The write-up on a product or a note on a club is always the reader-facing fact; anything about how or why it was confirmed stays internal.

Who this covers

Tour pros and ranked competitors, but also notable amateurs, golf content creators, a few famous people who golf without being tour pros, and historical/retired players. Equipment coverage starts with a small pilot and grows from there — most of the roster is still pending research at any given moment, which the changelog tracks honestly rather than hiding.

Found something wrong?

Every verification step above is designed to catch mistakes before they publish, not guarantee they never happen. If something on a player's or brand's page looks wrong, out of date, or sourced to something that doesn't actually say what we claim, tell us — ideally with the page and what looks off.