Author: Sean Ogle

I’ll be honest with you,I went into this review with a heavy dose of skepticism. There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Performance Golf. And if you have, it’s likely because you’ve received a barrage of ads or emails marketing their products. These guys are some of the best marketers in golf, which has always given me pause, as some of their claims can be a little hyperbolic. As such, I’ve only reviewed one Performance Golf product in the past: The One Wedge, which is a legitimately good wedge for amateur golfers who struggle getting out of bunkers or…

For the last few years, my overall recommendation for newer golfers looking for their first real set of clubs has been Stix. The quality they deliver at the price point has consistently impressed me. And now there’s a new version to talk about, the P02 Perform Series. This is the updated iteration of their flagship Perform line that’s generally the best fit for most people. But the question is, is this updated version actually any better than the original Stix Perform set? It’s been a couple of years since I did a proper Stix update, and a lot has changed.…

The Takomo 201 MKII and 201T MKII sit between the more forgiving 101 MKII and Takomo’s more demanding 301 forged players’ irons. Think of the 201 MKII as the more forgiving players-distance option. The 201T MKII is the more compact, more traditional, more player-focused version. Both are hollow-body irons. Both are designed to give you a blend of distance, feel, and forgiveness. But the 201T has weaker lofts, less offset, a shorter blade length, and a more compact profile overall. For this test, I had the 201 MKII with KBS Tour Lite shafts in stiff flex, and the 201T MKII…

I’ll admit it, I slept on the original G.112 for way too long. While I was busy falling in love with the Gallivanters, rotating through the MG4+, and putting miles on the MG4x2, the G.112 sat on the sidelines. I liked how it looked, but something about it made me wonder if it was more of a fashion statement than a functional golf shoe. Turns out, I had it completely backwards, and when I finally put seven rounds on the original, I was genuinely surprised by how good they were. So when G/FORE unveiled a fully redesigned G.112.2 for 2026,…

Traditionally, if you wanted to get a distance on the golf course, your best bet is to have a laser rangefinder. But there is, of course, another option for getting your distances – and we’re not talking sprinkler heads. Golf watches are the stealthy, practical alternative to rangefinders, and many golfers find them to be preferable. Why? The best golf watches include comfort, performance, simplicity, and even style – and some of them can even cost less than your typical rangefinder. For some golfers, GPS golf watches beat the cumbersome and time-consuming routine of pulling out a rangefinder each time you want…

Save 15% off Golf Forever with the code “BE15” Let’s be real for a second. Most golfers, myself very much included, don’t spend nearly enough time on fitness. We’ll happily drop money on a new driver, a rangefinder, a launch monitor, but actual physical training? That tends to fall to the bottom of the list pretty quickly. The problem is that your body is the most important piece of equipment you own. And Golf Forever is one of the few programs I’ve come across that actually makes it easy to do something about that. It’s a golf-specific fitness and mobility…

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 100 courses lists, and it’s widely regarded as one of Donald Ross’ best courses ever. So much so, that upon returning two decades after building it, he said: “I intended to make this my masterpiece, but not until today did I realize I built better than I knew.” Aronimink Golf Club is straight-up one of the toughest golf courses I’ve played. The rough is thick, the holes are long, and…

I’ve reviewed a lot of direct-to-consumer golf clubs over the years. Some of them have been surprisingly good… Some have felt like a compromise… And some have landed in that sweet spot where you start wondering why more golfers aren’t considering them instead of defaulting to the usual big-name brands. Takomo has increasingly lived in that third category for me. They’ve done a very good job of creating irons that look more premium than their price tag would suggest, while still keeping the buying process relatively simple. And with the new 101 MKII irons, Takomo has taken what was already…

Hybrids, utility clubs, rescue clubs — by whatever name you want to use, for many golfers, these clubs could be called life savers. Of all the innovations in golf over the past few decades, and there have been a lot of them when you think in terms of equipment, balls, push carts, electric push carts, affordable golf launch monitors, rangefinders, golf watches, and on and on — the hybrid golf club may have had the biggest impact on the most golfers. These tools have become indispensable in pretty much every golf bag nowadays. Some players carry just one. Others have…

I’ve honestly been a little hard on Bushnell rangefinders lately. Not because they’ve made any bad products. They definitely haven’t. All of their rangefinders, including the options from the past couple of years, have been very solid. But the problem for Bushnell is that there has been no shortage of really good alternatives from other brands at lower prices. The Bushnell Pro X3 is genuinely one of the best rangefinders ever made. But at $600, I just can’t recommend it to most golfers. And the Tour V6 Shift, despite being a really good device, was constantly getting outpaced by competitors…