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…
Author: Sean Ogle
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.
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…
Club Glove has long been the most recognized name when it comes to golf travel bags. They’re also among the most expensive bags out there? The question is, are they worth it? And if so, which one is right for you? More than that, is it worth also investing in their luggage to be able to take advantage of the TRS system while traveling? I answer all of these questions and more in this full review of the Club Glove golf travel bags and luggage for 2026. This page contains affiliate links. This means that if you click a link…
Two years ago, I spent three days at Sensei Porcupine Creek, and it ended up being one of the most memorable travel experiences I’ve ever had. Not just because of the golf. And not even just because of the setting. But because it was one of the first times I’d gone on a trip that was intentionally designed to actually make my life better when I got home. Fast forward to this year. I recently turned 41, and like a lot of people hitting their 40s, I’ve started thinking a lot more about longevity. Not in a vague, “I should…
Manele is a rare golf course. It shows up on all the lists. One of the most beautiful courses in the country. Consistently ranked as one of the two best courses in Hawaii. Top 200 in America. It has dramatic clifftop holes, including one of the most recognizable par 3s in the world. It’s the kind of place every golfer would love to play at least once. And yet, very few people I know actually have. Why? Because it’s both remote and expensive. Lānaʻi has a population of around 3,000 people, and the only real places to stay are the…
Save 5% off HackMotion with the code “BREAKINGEIGHTY5” I’ll be honest, I’m a little skeptical by nature when it comes to swing training aids. There are a lot of products out there that make big promises and don’t really deliver. So when HackMotion first crossed my radar, I wasn’t in a rush to jump on it. But here’s the thing about HackMotion: the underlying premise is hard to argue with. Your wrists are the only connection between your body and the club. They control the clubface. And the clubface controls everything. So if your wrist angles are off, at the…