Author: Sean Ogle

I’ve been carrying a Garmin rangefinder in my bag for over a year now, specifically for one feature: the way it talks to a Garmin watch and marks exactly where the pin sits on the green. Garmin calls it Range Relay. I call it magic. And now they’ve made it available at two completely different price points. The Approach Z30 has been doing this since 2024 and does it for $499. The new Approach Z10 does the same thing for $299. $200 difference. Same core feature. So what exactly are you getting for that extra money? Let’s figure that out.…

I’ve worn a Garmin Fenix 8 nearly every day for the past two years. It’s been on my wrist for almost every round of golf I’ve played during that time. It’s tracked my runs, hikes, workouts, sleep, and all the other random things Garmin watches are capable of tracking. So naturally, when there’s a major update to a product I use basically all day, every day, I get pretty excited. Enter the Garmin Fenix 9. I’ve now spent the last week wearing the Fenix 9 Pro, and this review is going to look at the watch primarily from a golf…

The Sun Mountain Club Glider Meridian is one of those rare products where I hardly ever hear a negative review. Everyone I know who owns one loves it. I’m one of them. Mine has been all over the world with me, and it keeps coming back home in one piece, with my clubs and stuff totally undamaged. But I’ve always had a short list of nitpicks. It’s not the biggest bag out there. The build quality is good without being bulletproof. And it has never been cheap. So when Sun Mountain announced the ClubGlider3, I was curious: Did they actually…

Mizuno is quietly making some of the best putters in golf right now. LAB Golf gets most of the attention when it comes to modern putter technology. Scotty Cameron has the history and prestige. PXG has surprisingly been my personal go-to for the past year and a half. But Mizuno? It still feels like the company is flying under the radar in this category. That was true with its 2025 M.Craft releases, and after spending a couple of rounds with the expanded Mizuno M.Craft X platform, I think it may be even more true now. The M.Craft X is a…

Garmin caught me completely off guard with this one. The Approach Z10 is their new $299 rangefinder, and it has one of the coolest features of any rangefinder I have ever tested. But $299 is a crowded, competitive price point. There are some very good products sitting in that neighborhood. Plus, Garmin themselves already have the Approach Z30, which costs $200 more and does very similar things. So that brings up two concurrent questions: Is the Z10 worth it relative to all the other similarly priced options? And is it now the no-brainer choice that renders the Z30 obsolete? Let’s…

I wrote the first version of this guide a couple of years ago. And I was excited when I did. Leupold felt like the best-kept secret in golf. A hundred-year-old optics company building some of the most accurate rangefinders you could buy, without any of the hype you get with the bigger brands. I’d bump into someone using one maybe once a season, and it was almost always a good player who knew exactly what they had. It always kind of blew my mind that a company making this good of golf products could be so relatively unknown. I was…

I’ve had a pretty good experience testing Takomo clubs over the last few years. I’ve spent time with a number of models from both its 101 and 201 series of irons, and the experience has generally been the same: They’re solid performers that offer a lot for the money. But I also wouldn’t say I found any of them earth-shattering. Good clubs? Absolutely. A good value? No question. Clubs that immediately made me want to rethink everything in my bag? Not necessarily. So while I was excited to try the new Takomo Skyforger 002 wedges, I wasn’t expecting them to…

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 and go skiing, and I was always fascinated by the whole experience: the lobby, the restaurants, the people coming and going, and the feeling that anything could happen within those walls. For a while, I was so interested in hotels that I seriously considered going to UNLV for its hotel management program. Instead, I studied finance at Oregon State. Not quite as glamorous. But the fascination never went away. Whether…

I love mechanical watches. I’ve built up a small collection over the years and genuinely enjoy wearing them. I’ve also worn a Garmin fitness watch almost every day for the last four years. Those two things don’t get along. I want all the health, sleep, and recovery data Garmin collects, but I can’t bring myself to be the guy wearing two watches at once. Some people can pull off a Rolex on one wrist and a Garmin on the other. I’m not one of them. In fact, I often keep my Garmin in my pocket when I’m wearing a mechanical…

When SkyTrak released the ST MAX in late 2025, they created a genuinely weird situation for themselves. Their new flagship costs more than their previous model. And if you placed the two devices side by side and couldn’t see the color? You honestly wouldn’t be able to tell them apart. Same dimensions. Same box design. Same tracking technology. Same software ecosystem. I’ve spent time with both the SkyTrak+ and the SkyTrak ST MAX, and the question I keep coming back to isn’t whether either one is good. They’re both excellent. The question is whether the price gap between them makes…