shI was sitting at the bar with my friend Dan at Aerie at Grand Traverse Resort the night before our round, and the guy next to me said, “so which [Read More]
2013 road trip
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We originally played Forest Dunes in October 2013. This review was updated in May 2022 for accuracy. Throughout the course of my Golf Road Trip there was one place that [Read More]
I played Erin Hills in October 2013, and expected the pros to get absolutely dominated during the 2017 US Open. Clearly that didn’t happen. This post was updated in April [Read More]
The Meadow Valleys Course at Blackwolf Run was the second round I played on my first ever golf road trip. It’s a wonderful experience, and shouldn’t be missed on a [Read More]
I feel like Breaking Eighty, the blog as we know it now, really started when I took my first real golf trip. Sure I’d played a round or two here and there. [Read More]
I was nervous during my 20 minute drive to Whistling Straits. It was easily my most heavily anticipated round of golf, on my very first big golf trip – not [Read More]
Of all the rounds of golf I was playing on my Wisconsin/Michigan road trip, the River Course at Blackwolf Run was arguably the one I was most excited for. I [Read More]
Of the dozens of golf courses that Pete Dye designed in his life, I have played exactly…seven of them. Seven feels like such an insignificant number, considering the very significant impact [Read More]
Before heading up to Northern Michigan for my golf road trip, people told me that Arcadia Bluffs and Bay Harbor would duke it out for best views and my favorite [Read More]
I wasn’t sure if Oakland Hills was going to happen – but man did I want it to. One of the most frequently asked questions on the trip was “How [Read More]