Why this site exists
Nearly every golf gift guide on the internet is written for golfers. That sounds obvious until you notice that the person reading a golf gift guide is, overwhelmingly, nota golfer. They're buying for one.
So you get pages full of sentences like "a low-compression three-piece with a urethane cover" addressed to somebody who doesn't know what a hybrid is and is mainly worried about buying something faintly embarrassing.
Pin & Putt is written the other way round. Every product on this site answers three questions in plain English: what is it, why would a golfer want it, and who is it wrong for. The third one is the part most guides leave out.
Who writes it
I'm Stephen V..
I'm not a golf pro. I've never worked in a pro shop, I don't have a handicap worth mentioning, and I'm not going to tell you I've spent decades in the industry. I'm someone who got genuinely interested in the gear, read the manuals and the published spec sheets, and got tired of gift guides that assume you already know the vocabulary.
The one kind of experience I do have is the one this site is actually about: buying a golf gift for someone without playing golf myself.That's the reader's exact situation, and it turns out to be a more useful vantage point for this particular job than a low handicap would be.
What this site refuses to do
The credibility problem for a new publisher is real, and the standard solution is to manufacture authority. We'd rather list what we won't do:
- No testing claims.We don't test golf products and you will never read "in our testing" on this site. What we do instead is on how we pick.
- No invented credentials.No expert panel, no certified fitters, no years of experience that can't be checked.
- No fabricated prices, ratings or review counts.Prices come from a live retailer feed or they don't render at all.
- No testimonials or trust badges. This site launched recently and has no customers to quote. Inventing some would be the fastest way to deserve none of your trust.
- No manufactured urgency.We have no inventory and no deadline. "Hurry, limited time" on a gift guide is a lie about a page that will look identical tomorrow.
- No golf puns in headings.A smaller point, but we're holding the line on it.
How the money works
Pin & Puttearns affiliate commission. When you buy something through one of our links, the retailer pays us a percentage and it costs you nothing extra. We're a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program.
That's the entire business model — no ads, no sponsored posts, no paid placements, no free products accepted. The affiliate disclosurepage has the full detail, and there's a disclosure above the first link on every page that carries one.
The obvious question is whether commission bends the recommendations. The honest answer is that the incentive exists, so the check is structural: every product on this site carries a stated reason it might be wrong for your golfer — a required field in our content model, not a nice intention — and that includes the products we'd earn most from. Our golf ball guideeven carries an entry whose entire point is that you shouldn't buy it.
Who owns it
Pin & Putt is owned and operated by Type 5 Marketing LLC, which publishes a number of independent review sites across different categories. We say so plainly here rather than burying it, because a reader deserves to know who's behind a recommendation.
Get in touch
If a price is wrong, a product has been discontinued, or a spec doesn't match what the manufacturer publishes, tell us — that's genuinely useful and we'll fix the page.
Email info@pinandputt.com or use the contact form. Corrections are made visibly and dated, per our editorial policy.