Author: Sean Ogle

When I first purchased an Ooler sleep system about six years ago, I was blown away. It was far from perfect, but being able to heat—and more importantly, cool—my bed was one of the biggest quality of life upgrades of any product I’d ever bought. I just wished it got colder. And that it wasn’t so loud. And that I didn’t have to be within Bluetooth range to turn it on. A few years later, I got an Eight Sleep Pod 3, which addressed pretty much every complaint I had. It also added a better app, sleep tracking, and automatic…

Most of the golf balls you see on TV were built for guys who swing it 115 mph. And most of us… well, we can’t do anything close to that. (Although, you should check out the Stack System if you want to try). That’s actually a big problem in golf. The equipment we see all the time when we follow the game we love, including the golf balls we see, just aren’t appropriate for our own games. But too many people continue to use the wrong equipment anyway. And it’s costing them. Especially if the issue, like it is for…

There are two things I know about almost every single golfer who is relatively new to the game: 1) They lose a lot of golf balls. 2) Even when they don’t lose them, they don’t really notice or care about the so-called performance enhancements a premium golf ball is advertised to provide. What a new golfer most likely cares about is some economy. Golf is an expensive sport, and it’s only getting worse. Not to mention, it’s hard as hell. Put those things together and new golfers are oftentimes paying a lot simply to also suffer a lot. If that’s you, why…

There’s a difference between buying a golf simulator to play virtual rounds with your friends and buying one because you really want to work on your game. The Uneekor Swing Optix camera system is very clearly aimed at the second person. Pair it with an Eye Mini Lite, and you’re getting an accurate indoor launch monitor, club data, and synchronized views of your swing from two different angles. Add AI Trainer, and the idea is to help you connect what your body is doing to the shots you’re hitting. For less than $4,000 in launch monitor and camera hardware, that’s…

We’re now onto the fourth generation of Vessel’s Player series that I’ve reviewed. When I tested the Player III, it was the best golf bag I’d ever reviewed. And with each subsequent iteration, in many ways, the bag has continued to get better. But it’s also changed. As Vessel has expanded its lineup, I feel like the Player has evolved from its flagship carry bag into a true hybrid bag. It’s just as comfortable, if not more so, on a cart or push cart as it is on your back. Even with the Player III, my biggest knock was its…

Golf clothes have gotten expensive. And unfortunately for me, I like nice things. At retail pricing, so many brands that I love have legitimately expensive MSRPs. It’s now pretty common to see golf polos over $100, golf hoodies well over $150, and premium rain jackets that cost as much as a new wedge or two. Fortunately, you don’t always have to pay full price to get extremely high-quality golf apparel. Many of my favorite golf apparel brands maintain surprisingly good sale or clearance sections. Better yet, some of them allow Breaking Eighty coupon codes to stack on top of their…

Well, the new Foresight GC2 is here. And I have a feeling this is going to be one of the more controversial launch monitor releases we’ve seen in a long time. Before receiving my unit for testing, I was a little nervous to review it. The internet hasn’t exactly been kind to Foresight following the announcement of its new software platform and subscription structure. Calls to move to subscription-free products like the Square Omni and FlightScope Mevo Gen2 have been loud. On paper, the GC2 isn’t going to do much to quiet those people down. It’s a two-camera launch monitor…

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…

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,…