Author: 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 a long time, if you traveled with golf clubs and wanted to do it right, the answer was Club Glove. It’s been the premium choice brand for serious travelers and the name that always came to mind first for me when people would ask what to buy. But it’s 2026. There are more golf travel bag brands than ever, and a lot of them are putting out genuinely good products for considerably less money. So the question worth asking is, with all of those alternatives out there, is Club Glove still worth the price? And not just the travel…

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Finding the perfect Father’s Day gift for the golfer in your life shouldn’t be this hard. But between the endless gear drops, the marketing hype, and trying to figure out what he actually needs versus what he already has, it can feel overwhelming. That’s where I come in. I’ve spent years testing and reviewing the best golf products on the market, and every year around Father’s Day, I put together a curated list of the gifts I’d actually want to receive, or that I’ve already given to the golfers in my own life. Whether your dad is a tech obsessive,…

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Save 20% off B. Draddy with the code “BREAKING” B. Draddy isn’t a name everyone knows yet, and that’s part of what makes them interesting. This is a brand that quietly makes some of the best golf apparel on the market, using materials and construction quality you’d expect from something twice the price, and it just hasn’t gotten the mainstream attention it deserves. The brand is built around long-staple organic Peruvian Pima cotton, which sounds like marketing speak until you actually hold one of their pieces. It’s softer than you’d expect, with a bit of natural stretch, and it gets…

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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…

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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.…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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