Our Corrections Policy
When we get something wrong — and we do — we fix it fast, we fix it visibly, and we log the fix. This page is our commitment to never pretend an error didn’t happen. No quiet edits. No disappeared paragraphs. No stealth reversions.
Golf publishing has a quiet-edit problem. Facts change, prices move, writers fumble — and most sites silently rewrite history as if the original version never existed. We do the opposite. Every correction is timestamped, labelled, and logged.
What Counts As a Correction
We triage every piece of reader feedback into one of four buckets. Only the first two trigger a public correction notice:
Major correction — triggers public notice
A factual error that changes a reader’s understanding or decision: a wrong price (off by >10%), a misattributed quote, a mislabelled product, an incorrect rule citation, a wrong tournament result. We fix within 72 hours and add a visible notice at the top of the article explaining what was wrong and what it now says.
Minor correction — logged internally, silent fix
Typos, broken links, tidy-up edits, small formatting issues. We fix them without a public notice because they don’t change meaning. We still log them internally with the editor’s initials and timestamp.
Update — marked clearly, no notice
The article was correct at the time of publishing, but the world changed. A product got discontinued. A price dropped. A rule was amended. Updates get an “Updated on [date]” line at the top, not a correction notice — because nothing was ever wrong, it just became outdated.
Clarification — added as an editor’s note
The article wasn’t wrong but readers misread it in large numbers. We add an editor’s note near the ambiguous passage, signed and dated. The original text stays visible.
How Corrections Get Made
- Report received. You email us, fill the contact form, or comment on the article. Every report goes to the editorial inbox. We acknowledge within 24 hours — even if it’s just to say “we’re investigating.”
- Triage. A senior editor assigns the report to one of the four buckets above and routes to the original author plus the relevant expert reviewer if one exists.
- Verification. The author and editor check the claim against primary sources (see our Fact-Checking Policy). If the report is valid, we move to the fix. If it isn’t, we respond to the reader explaining why.
- Fix and disclosure. Major corrections ship within 72 hours of validation with a visible notice. Minor edits and updates ship on the normal publishing cadence.
- Log. Every correction is entered in our internal log with the editor, the original version, the new version, the reason for the change, and the reporter’s name (or “anonymous reader” if they prefer).
What a Correction Notice Looks Like
Example
Correction, 12 March 2024: An earlier version of this article stated the Titleist TSR3 driver retailed at $499. The correct price at the time of publication was $599. The review has been updated. We thank reader M. Thompson for flagging this.
The notice stays on the article forever. It doesn’t migrate to a footer, it doesn’t get collapsed behind a “read more”, and it doesn’t get silently removed after six months. An article that was once wrong was once wrong.
Major Retractions
If we ever publish something so wrong that minor correction isn’t enough — a product recommendation that turns out to be unsafe, an instruction tip that causes injury, a claim that can’t be supported by any primary source — we retract the article in full. Retraction means:
- The original article is removed from search indexes.
- The URL continues to resolve, but shows a retraction notice explaining what was wrong and why.
- All outbound newsletter references are updated.
- We publish a standalone editor’s note acknowledging the retraction, signed by the editor-in-chief.
We’ve retracted articles twice since 2016. Both are still accessible at their original URLs as retraction notices.
How To Report an Error
The faster you can give us, the faster we fix. Helpful reports include:
- The article URL.
- The specific claim you believe is wrong (a direct quote, if possible).
- A source for the correct version if you have one — and don’t worry if you don’t, we’ll do the verification.
- How you’d like to be credited: by name, as “a reader,” or not at all.
Use our contact form or email hello@golfingforeall.com. The inbox is monitored seven days a week.
Our Correction Log
We publish a public correction index at the start of every calendar year, summarising every major correction from the previous twelve months. The log lists the article, the date corrected, the nature of the error, and the editor who approved the fix. The most recent log is available on request — email us and we’ll send it.
15 Apr 2026