Author: Sean Ogle

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…

Right now, as I write this, I’m sitting in the Chase Sapphire Lounge in San Diego. I’m on the tail end of a six-day family trip to Disneyland and the Hotel del Coronado. There were no golf clubs on this trip. But there was one golf-adjacent product that came along with me: the Club Glove Tour Check-In. This was my sixth trip using it. And apparently I like this suitcase enough that I’m now sitting in an airport lounge writing an entire dedicated review about it. Which I definitely didn’t expect to happen. You see, I typically try to review…

These days, my wife and I have a new routine when we get in bed. We fight over who gets the Normatec Elite Hips. One of us will strap in for a 15 or 30 minute session while we read or watch something, then hand it off. This was the last product I expected to become part of our nightly routine. Yet here we are. So the question is simple: is it actually doing anything, or are we just two people who like being squeezed by an expensive robot before bed? I’ve now put over 20 sessions into this thing, so…

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 about it going in, and honestly, my expectations weren’t all that high. By the end of day one, I was already trying to figure out how soon I could come back. I’ve now been back to Reynolds 4 times since then, almost once a year. And it’s hands down one of my favorite golf resorts, and easily in my personal top 3 of most underrated resorts in the United States.…

For years when it came to buying a rangefinder, there was really only one main brand people turned to: Bushnell. They’ve been called the “King of Rangefinders” for years, for a reason. At one point, something like 98% of PGA Tour players used the brand. But “just buy a Bushnell” isn’t really useful advice anymore, because Bushnell doesn’t make one rangefinder. They make four, and they’re genuinely different devices built for different golfers and different budgets. Not to mention the fact that there are dozens of other brands that have come up in the past decade, who are creating some…