blasblasOne thing I know for sure: most golfers don’t practice with much consistent purpose. And I think a lot of that is that they aren’t entirely sure of what to work on. I know that’s often the case for me. What I’ve found to be the best training aids are the ones that help me feel what’s going on so that I can thereby better understand how to fix what’s incorrect. The trouble with golf though is that there are so many various components to it. No one training aid addresses every potential flaw. That’s why this list isn’t so…
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.
For the last few years, Sun Mountain has been making some of the best-looking bags in golf. And I feel like hardly anyone talks about them. They’re not the “cool” bag brand in the way Vessel or Jones is. They don’t seem to speak to the younger golfer quite like Ghost or Sunday Golf. But as far as I’m concerned, Sun Mountain has been on an incredible run. It started with the Mid-Stripe a few years ago. Then came the Matchplay, which my wife liked enough to claim as her own. Earlier this year, I reviewed the Matchplay Ballistic, and…
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 rights to Forrester’s Outerwear. I’ll forgive you if you’ve never heard of it. But if you played high school golf through rainy Oregon autumns in the ’80s, you probably saw Forrester’s everywhere. Then, for a long time, you didn’t see it at all. They did so much right with the initial relaunch in 2025. Former Nike designer Chris Bailey helped design a line that feels true to the old brand,…
Foresight Sports just announced the biggest overhaul to its software ecosystem in years. The centerpiece is Foresight Premier, an entirely new PC application that replaces FSX Play and FSX Pro as the company’s primary platform for simulation, practice, and performance analysis. But Premier is only one part of the announcement. There’s also a new subscription system called Foresight+, along with major changes to course access and the future of Foresight’s existing software. The video above covers everything you need to know. What is Foresight Premier? Foresight Premier is the new desktop software for Foresight launch monitors. It combines the simulation…
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 be selling that season. Now? You can find golf clothing for just about any personal style—from traditional private-club staples to technical rain gear, luxury lifestyle pieces, and full-on streetwear. That variety is great. It also makes figuring out which golf clothing brands are actually worth the money significantly more difficult. I’ve spent more than a decade reviewing golf products, and I’ve personally worn clothes from nearly every brand on this…
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 of every four golfers has one. So many people are using them that I was recently told the bag room actually ran out of space for charging batteries. Why are they so popular all of a sudden? Well, for starters, when they work well, they’re incredibly convenient. Walking hands-free down the fairway while your electric caddie cruises along in front of you is legitimately enjoyable. And considering we all know…
This is a golf blog. I know it’s a golf blog. And yet somehow, over the past several years, I’ve become one of the more credentialed sleep technology reviewers on the internet. It started with a Sleep.Me Ooler. Then I upgraded to an Eight Sleep Pod 3, which I’ve now used every single night for over four years. And in between, I spent a couple weeks testing the BedJet 3. If you’ve been going back and forth between these two systems, here’s the honest answer: Eight Sleep is the better product. It isn’t particularly close. But BedJet is a genuinely…
Two of the most popular tour-level golf balls on the market. Same price. Same kind of golfer. And a debate that comes up in every group bag drop, every driving range warm-up, every “what ball do you play?” conversation. The Titleist Pro V1 has been the gold standard in premium golf balls for over two decades. The TaylorMade TP5 has spent the last several years gaining serious ground on tour and in amateur bags alike by doing the one thing no other ball has quite managed: out-distancing the Pro V1 without giving up tour-level feel. So which one is actually…
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…