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Living in the Pacific Northwest, we truly experience four distinct seasons. We get hot, we get cold, and we get everything in between. And one of the most versatile pieces…
I’m a pretty casual dude, so the fact that hoodies are starting to be cool to wear on the golf course? I’m all for it. Yes, there will be purists…
Golf apparel is in a very different place than it was even five years ago. The old choice was essentially between a baggy country-club polo and whatever Nike happened to…
Last year, the team behind Jones Golf Bags totally surprised me when they announced they were getting into apparel. But not just any apparel. Along with Jones, they’d acquired the…
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Honest Product Reviews and World Class Golf Courses.
Hi, my name is Sean Ogle and I'm the Founder of Breaking Eighty. The goal of this site is to provide honest, unbiased golf reviews to help you find the exact product for YOUR needs. I've personally tested everything we review on the site.
You'll also find articles about some of the best golf courses and resorts in the world.
I started this site in 2012 with the goal of creating the golf website I'd personally want to read. Over a decade later, this holds true more than ever.
I hope you enjoy!
Golf Courses and Travel
Few things get me more excited than a truly great hotel. Growing up, one of my dad’s best friends managed a hotel in Utah. We’d visit every winter to stay…
Sign up and get the full details on the “Fall into Reynolds Lake Oconee” sweepstakes here. I first visited Reynolds Lake Oconee about 5 years ago. I didn’t know much…
There are exclusive golf courses, and then there’s Canyata. For most of its existence, this course hidden in the cornfields outside Marshall, Illinois, had no members. It wasn’t part of…
Second to Merion, Aronimink Golf Club is probably the club I was most familiar with before heading to Philadelphia. It’s often on the back end of some of America’s top…
Buying Guides
Reviewed: GPS Golf Devices
I continue to be pretty amazed at how many electric caddies I see on the course these days. At my home club, I’d say lately it feels like one out…
Golf Rangefinder Reviews
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Last year, the team behind Jones Golf Bags totally surprised me when they announced they…
Foresight Sports just announced the biggest overhaul to its software ecosystem in years. The centerpiece…
Golf apparel is in a very different place than it was even five years ago.…
I continue to be pretty amazed at how many electric caddies I see on the…
This is a golf blog. I know it’s a golf blog. And yet somehow, over…
Two of the most popular tour-level golf balls on the market. Same price. Same kind…
Hotels and Golf Resorts
Few things get me more excited than a truly great hotel. Growing up, one of my dad’s best friends managed a hotel in Utah. We’d visit every winter to stay…
Sign up and get the full details on the “Fall into Reynolds Lake Oconee” sweepstakes here. I first visited Reynolds Lake Oconee about 5 years ago. I didn’t know much…
Two years ago, I spent three days at Sensei Porcupine Creek, and it ended up being one of the most memorable travel experiences I’ve ever had. Not just because of…
Manele is a rare golf course. It shows up on all the lists. One of the most beautiful courses in the country. Consistently ranked as one of the two best…
Private Golf Clubs
Over the last year of playing more and more golf courses I’ve learned that there are two different types of golf outings: there are rounds of golf, and then there…
This post was originally published in August 2013 and was updated for accuracy in April 2022. More so than perhaps any other course in Oregon, there’s a mystery around the…
Words can’t really describe what I was thinking before I arrived at Medinah Country Club. Lucky was an obvious one. Nervous another. But I think my pre-round feelings could mostly…
This post was originally published in January 2014. Quite a few things have changed since then, this has been updated in April 2022 to reflect those changes. A few months…
Golf Bag Reviews
The Sun Mountain Club Glider Meridian is one of those rare products where I hardly…
Right now, as I write this, I’m sitting in the Chase Sapphire Lounge in San…
I’ll just say it. The Sun Mountain Matchplay Ballistic might be the best-looking bag in…
I’ll admit that when the Big Max Dri Lite Silencio 3 showed up, I was…
Golf Shoe Reviews
I said something in a recent Payntr video that I’ll stand by here: a lot…
I’ll be honest, I’ve never been a huge fan of TRUE’s OG line. That wide…
Considering buying a pair of Payntr golf shoes? No surprise, they are one of the…
I’ll admit it, I slept on the original G.112 for way too long. While I…