I’ve been lucky enough to attend the Masters three times in my life. The first trip I attended a Friday round and had an incredible time. I likened it to being Disneyland for adults – however on my second trip, while still having amusement park-esque features, I realized it was probably more like Las Vegas than Disneyland. Let me explain. In Vegas people three steps away from broke are casually rubbing elbows with others wearing $50k watches. The Masters is no different. A lot of local Augusta residents have had tickets passed down in their family for generations, so it’s…
Author: Sean Ogle
Sean Ogle
As the Founder of Breaking Eighty Sean has spent the last 10+ years reviewing the best golf products and golf courses in the world. He prides himself on only writing about products and courses he's experienced first hand, and helping others find exactly what they need to enhance their enjoyment of the game we all love so much.
Over the years, I haven’t exactly been easy on Shot Scope products. My experience with them has been a mixed bag, but its been clear over the past year or so that they’re really putting a lot of effort into the brand and their products. For instance, while the Pro L2 rangefinder still has its issues, it is much better than the previous Pro L1. And the X5 watch and sensors are definitely a big leap ahead over the previous generation H4 sensors which still require you to tap between shots. But new for this year is the Shot Scope Pro…
Updated in March 2024 to adjust some recommendations and make price updates. One of the best parts about being a golf blogger is that I have opportunities to review a lot of different products. And for whatever reason, golf rangefinders are one of the products that I’ve become most familiar with. A rangefinder is pretty much designed to do one thing: tell you how far away you are from the pin. So considering it has just one relatively simple task, it’s pretty amazing considering how many different models and price points there are out there. This review of the best golf rangefinders…
Trying to find the best golf balls for your game can be a nightmare. There are hundreds of golf ball reviews out there that all say different things, and let’s face it, for most golfers you can barely tell the difference between a ProV1 and a Top Flite. Ok, that might be a bit of an exaggeration, but it’s true that choosing a golf ball can be a bit of a shot in the dark for most people. The goal of this post is to help take some of the mystery out of finding the right golf ball, and to help you…
Updated March 2024 to give long term review feedback. It’s always exciting when I pick up a new pair of Ecco golf shoes, because I know they’ll be with me for a long time. 6 years ago I got my first pair of Eccos – the Biom Hybrid 2s. They’ve seen well over 100 rounds, and I still wear them from time to time. 5 years ago it was the Ecco Cage Pro. 4 years ago, with the Biom Hybrid 3, I proclaimed it was the best golf shoe I’d ever owned. I still play 25% of my rounds in…
2023 was a good golf year, to put it mildly. For years, I’d done a pretty good job of playing at a bunch of new courses each year as I grew Breaking Eighty and my golf travel IQ. Then COVID hit. I didn’t get on an airplane for 21 months. During that time I also had my first kid, which as you might guess, doesn’t lend itself well to travel. Well, in 2023 I made up for lost time. It started with 4 days at Bandon Dunes in January. In February, I spent the month in Australia with my family…
When its comes to luxury resort destinations Orlando, Florida isn’t necessarily the top of the list. When you think about Orlando, your first thought is more likely visions of theme parks, themed hotels, and general all-around chaos. While much of Orlando is that way, conveniently located to everything near the South end of the city is a bit of an oasis: Grande Lakes. During this year’s PGA Show, I was looking for a place to stay that was a little bit “comfier” than the typical hotels on International Drive near the Orange County Convention Center. I stumbled across Grande Lakes…
There are countless golf training products out there that promise to fix your golf swing. Whether it’s old-school devices like the Orange Whip, or new tech products like the deWiz or Blast Motion – as long as there are bad golfers in the world, there will be a (big) market for game improvement products. One of the latest (and possibly greatest)? HackMotion golf. HackMotion is a high-end device that tracks wrist movement during your golf swing. Their take is that “your wrists are the only link between your body and the golf club. Wrists dictate the clubface, shaping the ball flight.” Aka,…
The Bushnell Launch Pro is the most accurate launch monitor under $5k. But should you buy it?
Updated February 2024 to add video review. It’s no secret that I believe the FlightScope Mevo Plus is the best overall launch monitor for most people. It’s accurate, feature-heavy, portable, and doesn’t have any subscriptions. But the original Mevo Plus came out in 2020, and since then? There’s been a lot of new competition coming to market. Really good competition at that. As such, I’ve been curious to see how FlightScope would respond. Would they come out with a more robust camera-based system for space-constrained golfers? Would they update their entry-level FlightScope Mevo? The answer for 2024 is something else entirely -…