Use the coupon code BREAKINGEIGHTY between now and December 31st for 10% off your entire order. One of the coolest parts of this blog has been the “you should meet” factor… The more I’ve established myself here, the more I talk to people who say things like “you should meet so and so”. The latest example of this was an introduction my buddy Al made to Alex Holderness and John Bourne. The pair met at grad school in Yale, both went into finance, and last year left their positions to focus full time on their refined golf gear and apparel…
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.
Of all the courses I played in Scotland, there’s one that didn’t quite fit in: Trump International Golf Links. And I think that’s one of the reasons I insisted that we make the effort to play it. Unlike just about every other course we played (save for Kingsbarns), Trump wasn’t built over a hundred years ago – it wasn’t even around a decade ago. In a country where there’s so much emphasis on history, it’s pretty shocking to see a new course (a Trump one nonetheless) come in with such high praise. Everything I’d read before traveling was that the…
Did you know Jack Nicklaus made golf balls? Neither did I until I recently got the chance to test them out. And I’ve gotta say, it might be time you start paying attention, as there are some unique aspects to Nicklaus balls that could make it worth of putting in your bag. This year after incredible amounts of testing by the one and only Jack Nicklaus, the Nicklaus companies rolled out 3 lines of golf balls: the white, the blue, and the black. Already, they’ve done something right in making it stupid easy to figure out which balls to use.…
You can buy Game Golf on Amazon here. You can buy Arccos Golf on Amazon here. OR Buy Arccos on their website. As you’ve noticed over here, I’m all about golf technology. I think if we’re going to get a younger generation playing more often, the more we can leverage technology to help them grow their game – the better. This year there are two names that I’ve heard more than any other when it comes to pushing the limits of golf technology: Game Golf and Arccos Golf. Game Golf has been around for about a year now, and they’ve…
When people hear about my quest and they hear that I’m from Oregon, one of the questions I’ve been asked a lot (after, the inevitable, have you played Bandon) is “have you played Tetherow?” Up until this week the answer had always been “not yet.” Tetherow is the last Top 100 Public course I needed to knock off in Oregon, and let’s just say, I wasn’t disappointed. Tetherow was built in 2008 on land that was decimated from a forest fire right outside of Bend, and is distinctly different than any of the other top courses in the high desert…
If you’ve been reading this blog for awhile you know that I’m a huge Nike guy. My fiance used to work in Nike Golf, I grew up in Eugene, what can I say, it’s in my blood. That said, some of their golf products are better than others. Their balls historically I’ve found to be relatively so-so compared to the competition, for instance. That said, I’ve found that Nike Golf always nails footwear and apparel. I LOVE my Nike Golf Rain Suit, and am trekking through Scotland with it next month. I’m also still rocking both my Lunar Control shoes…
What do cars on the wrong side of the road, towns at the same latitude as Juneau, Alaska, and spectacular ocean views all have in common? Answer: I’ll be experiencing all three next month when I return to Europe for the first time since my college graduation in 2007. I’ve known my friend Dan Jarvis for the better part of three years now, and ever since we first met in the Mexican jungle, we’ve been talking about taking a golf and scotch trip to Scotland. It was always one of those ambiguous things that never had a timeline and we…
Grab a Fitbit Flex off Amazon here. Alright, I know that the Fitbit isn’t exactly a golf device, but I’ve been using mine for the last couple weeks – and I know there are some of you out there who like to think of your golf outings as exercise, so I figured it kind of relates. I’d been thinking about some kind of wearable fitness device for awhile, but just hadn’t really looked into them that much. That was until a couple weeks ago when I was in Vegas, and in the midst of being hungover from too many fireball…
It’s amazing to me that I haven’t written about Pumpkin Ridge before this. I’m about a year and a half into my quest to play the Top 100 and Top 100 Public courses in the US, and the Ghost Creek course at Pumpkin Ridge is the closest one to my home in Portland, OR. I’d played the course once about three years ago, and earlier this summer I got to play the private side, Witch Hollow, but I hadn’t had a chance to photograph Ghost Creek, which is #63 on the Greatest 100 Public Course list. Through an instagram contest…
After the surreal experience that was Atunyote (ah-dun-yo), we decided to make a night of it at Turning Stone Resort. There was a moment when I was just like, how did I end up here? I’m from Portland, Oregon and I was sitting in a country bar, in an indian casino, in the middle of nowhere New York. That’s part of the fun of this whole Top 100 and Top 100 Public quest – I’ve ended up in places I’d never go before (Atlanta, Michigan anyone?). After winning $200 off my free play from the Casino, we may gone out…