Independence
Pin & Putt earns affiliate commission — see the affiliate disclosure — and that revenue is separated from editorial decisions by structure rather than by assurance.
No advertiser, retailer or manufacturer has any input into what appears here. Nobody can buy a position on a list. We accept no free products, no sponsored posts and no display advertising, so there is no relationship to manage in the first place.
Sourcing standards
We generate no first-hand test data, which means sourcing carries the entire evidentiary load. The rules are strict because they have to be:
- Specifications come from the manufacturer's published material — spec sheets, manuals, product pages — and are cited on the page.
- Specs are attributed, not asserted.We write "Titleist publishes a compression of X", not "it has a compression of X". The distinction matters: we're reporting a manufacturer's claim, not confirming it.
- Rules of golf claims go to the USGA.Never to another publisher's summary of the rules.
- Prices come from the live price layer only. No price is ever typed into copy.
- Ratings and review counts are live data or absent. We do not paraphrase, estimate or recall them.
- Subjective judgments are marked as such and reasoned from a cited spec — never presented as a measurement.
- If it can't be sourced, it isn't published."Generally considered" and "many golfers find" are not substitutes for a citation.
- We never cite a competitor's roundup as evidence for a specification. We go to the manufacturer.
What we never claim
These are absolute, and they hold on every page:
- That we tested anything.No "we tested", no "in our testing", no "we've put rounds on these", in any wording. We don't have a lab and we won't imply one. See how we pick.
- Credentials nobody here holds. No expert panel, no certified fitters, no PGA professionals, no years of industry experience.
- Fabricated prices, ratings or review counts. Live data or nothing.
- Testimonials or customer quotes. This site is new and has none. Inventing them would be the fastest way to deserve no trust at all.
- Urgency or scarcity. We hold no inventory and there is no deadline.
The disqualifier requirement
Every product recommended on this site carries a stated reason it might be wrong for your golfer. This is enforced in the content system rather than by editorial habit — the field is required, so a product cannot be published without one.
It exists because it's the single most useful thing we can offer a reader who doesn't play golf, and because a retailer-owned publisher structurally cannot print it about something they stock.
Corrections
We will get things wrong. When we do, we fix the page and say so.
- Factual errors are corrected as soon as we can verify the correct information, and the page's last-updated date changes.
- Substantive corrections— a wrong specification, a mis-stated rule, a product recommended that shouldn't have been — are noted on the page itself rather than quietly edited away.
- Discontinued or unavailable products are replaced, and the copy around them updated rather than left describing something that no longer exists.
- Price errors self-correct. Prices are machine-fetched, so a stale price disappears automatically rather than needing a human to notice.
To report an error, email info@pinandputt.com or use the contact form. Corrections from readers are genuinely welcome — a wrong specification on a page is worse for us than for you.
How often we re-check pages
- Prices — checked continuously and automatically.
- Discontinued or out-of-stock picks — replaced on detection.
- Gear roundups — reviewed quarterly, picks and specifications re-verified.
- Seasonal pages — reviewed annually, roughly eight weeks before the season.
- Guides — reviewed every six months.
- Specification citations — re-verified annually or when a model refreshes.
- Compliance sweep — quarterly: no testing claims, no invented credentials, no stale prices, disclosure present above every first affiliate link.
Titles and dates
We don't put a year in page titles. Competitors do — "best golf gifts 2026" — which guarantees the page looks stale the moment the year turns and creates an annual maintenance job that mostly doesn't get done.
A visible "prices checked today" is a stronger freshness signal than a year stamp, and it has the advantage of being continuously true rather than true once a year.
Authorship
Pages are written by Stephen V.and bylined accordingly. Where a page carries a byline, the same person is named in the page's structured data — we don't show a human byline while telling search engines an organization wrote it. More on the about page.