Author: Blake Doll

Over the few years, golf shoes have been getting less and less traditional. Sure you can still find plenty of the typical spiked shoes, but we’re seeing all kinds of new and more casual designs from companies like G-Fore, Ecco, and Nike Golf. A few years ago if you were playing a round at Augusta, no one would dream of wearing crazy patterned shirts, flattops, running shoes, or high tops. Heck, Judge Smails would never allow attire like that to go near Bushwood…you know, unless you work in the CaddyShack… But the good ol’ days are gone and fashion-forward golf…

We at Breaking Eighty have spent time reviewing golf balls before (everything from Noodle to Bridgestone and more) but for the most part we haven’t spent much time looking at how to purchase your golf balls. But it’s fair to say I found a new favorite way to get mine! For years I’ve been overpaying for new TPX5, or ProV1s, or Callaway Tour Softs, until recently when the guys at Two Guys with Balls reached out to Sean and I for a review. Who are Two Guys With Balls? Two Guys with Balls are fellow golfers with a passion for the game.  They…

This PXG Driver Review was written by Breaking Eighty Contributor Blake Doll. Parsons eXtreme Golf (PXG) is one of the hottest and fastest growing brands in golf and have elbowed their way into becoming one of the top club manufacturers in golf. The owner and founder is a straight shootin’ Texan businessman, Bob Parsons, who puts it in simple words “that PXG clubs are the Duck’s nuts” – Now I don’t necessarily get that reference, but in plain terms their clubs are the sexy, well performing, and have “a sweet spot the size of Texas”. Their irons are some of,…

This is a post from Breaking Eighty contributor Blake Doll. The first time I saw a Johnnie-O golf polo was at a store in Harbor Springs, MI. I saw the little dude holding a surfboard on the corner of the shirt, which looked cool, but then it hit me: this couldn’t be a golf shirt…right?? I didn’t think much of it until a few months later when I was at a pro shop at a course in Hawaii. In the shop stocked with Nike, Adidas, RLX, Under Armour, Travis Mathew, and other brands, was this section of softer looking shirts that…