Latest Product Reviews
Over the past few months, there hasn’t been a single product that more people have requested for me to review than the Square Golf Launch Monitor. Everybody, it seems, wants…
The putter is golf’s great equalizer. For all of the intimidation of a brutally long hole, a forced carry over water into the wind, or a short-sided chip shot, more…
When it comes to the world of golf technology, I’m not sure there’s a single product segment that has evolved further in the last five years than launch monitors. It…
A solar-powered phone charger. A built-in filming station for your swing. A custom, hand-painted design option. Bluetooth speaker compatibility. You can’t accuse the new MNML MR2 golf bag of being…
What is Breaking Eighty?
Honest Product Reviews and World Class Golf Courses.
Hi, my name is Sean Ogle and I'm the Founder of Breaking Eighty. The goal of this site is to provide honest, unbiased golf reviews to help you find the exact product for YOUR needs. I've personally tested everything we review on the site.
You'll also find articles about some of the best golf courses and resorts in the world.
I started this site in 2012 with the goal of creating the golf website I'd personally want to read. Over a decade later, this holds true more than ever.
I hope you enjoy!
Golf Courses and Travel
Let me start with this: I didn’t expect to find one of the most memorable rounds of golf I’ve played in the last five years in Vietnam. But here we…
The last time I was at Brasada Ranch was in 2013, back when I attended two weddings there just three weeks apart. At the time, it felt like one of…
When most people dream up a bucket-list golf trip, Vietnam probably isn’t the first place that comes to mind. Or the second. Or even the tenth. But after spending two…
For all the golf travel I’ve done, you’d think I’d be intimately familiar with golf in Florida. Considering there are more golf courses here than any other state in the…
Buying Guides
Reviewed: GPS Golf Devices
Well, I didn’t see this coming. Of all the products I’ve received to review in the past several months, the Garmin Approach G20 Solar just might be the one that…
Golf Rangefinder Reviews
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For years the PGA Show felt like it was almost slipping into obscurity. From the…
I think the G/FORE Gallivanter is the best-looking shoe in golf. Period. It’s gorgeous. Pebbled…
If you’re a golf hardcore, you’ve without question dreamed of a home golf simulator setup.…
Every year I go to the PGA Show in Orlando. It’s exciting, exhausting, engaging, and…
This post was originally published in April 2014, and updated in February 2024 for accuracy…
There is so much I could write about Sunriver, Oregon, that I’m almost not even…
Hotels and Golf Resorts
The last time I was at Brasada Ranch was in 2013, back when I attended two weddings there just three weeks apart. At the time, it felt like one of…
When most people dream up a bucket-list golf trip, Vietnam probably isn’t the first place that comes to mind. Or the second. Or even the tenth. But after spending two…
For all the golf travel I’ve done, you’d think I’d be intimately familiar with golf in Florida. Considering there are more golf courses here than any other state in the…
There are hotel brands, and then there’s the Peninsula. I’ve been enamored with Peninsula hotels ever since 2010. I was living in Bangkok in a $200/month apartment. To celebrate my birthday…
Private Golf Clubs
Over the last year of playing more and more golf courses I’ve learned that there are two different types of golf outings: there are rounds of golf, and then there…
This post was originally published in August 2013 and was updated for accuracy in April 2022. More so than perhaps any other course in Oregon, there’s a mystery around the…
Words can’t really describe what I was thinking before I arrived at Medinah Country Club. Lucky was an obvious one. Nervous another. But I think my pre-round feelings could mostly…
This post was originally published in January 2014. Quite a few things have changed since then, this has been updated in April 2022 to reflect those changes. A few months…
Golf Bag Reviews
A solar-powered phone charger. A built-in filming station for your swing. A custom, hand-painted design…
It might seriously be time for American golfers to start paying attention to Big Max.…
Trying to find the best golf bag for you can often be just as difficult as buying…
Sunday Golf has been doing a fantastic job of filling out it’s product line over…
Golf Shoe Reviews
FootJoy has never really been my go-to when it comes to golf shoes. Not because…
Over the last 3 years, Payntr has been (not so) quietly making a name for…
I’ve reviewed dozens of pairs of golf shoes over the years at Breaking Eighty -…
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