Author: Sean Ogle

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…

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…