Corinne Abernathy, Range & data editor

I like numbers, which is exactly why I don't trust them on their own. A carry distance from a launch monitor depends on things the screen rarely shows: air temperature, altitude, the ball you hit, and whether the unit normalized the result or reported it raw. Two sessions a month apart can disagree for reasons that have nothing to do with your swing.

My job is to find out what each listing and manual says about all that. Which conditions you can set in the app, which ball types it accounts for, what changes outdoors compared with a mat in the garage. I read the support pages and warranty terms too: how long the cover lasts, what's excluded and who handles a claim.

Owner reviews fill in the rest. I sort them by the questions people ask after a few range sessions: do the numbers stay consistent, does the battery last the bucket, does the app keep the history.

I write the guides on outdoor range measurements, ball flight conditions and practice data. When a listing doesn't say something you'd need, the guide tells you it's missing.