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The Breaking Eighty Top 100 Golf Courses in the World 2021
I started this website nine years ago. For seven of those years, I [Read More] Read More+Golf Industry Thoughts
Over the last four months, I’ve had a surprising number of people ask me questions about joining country clubs. With golf experiencing a bit of a resurgence, there’s a chance [Read More]
It was 5pm the night before I was scheduled to leave on a 4 day trip to Bandon Dunes. The line up was incredible. We had an afternoon round on [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]
Golf Product Reviews
Over the few years, golf shoes have been getting less and less traditional. Sure you can still find plenty of the typical spiked shoes, but we’re seeing all kinds of [Read More]
Is the FlightScope Mevo Plus truly a champagne launch monitor on a beer budget? The answer might surprise you.
When it comes to golf tech, I’m not sure there’s another company pushing things forward more than Garmin. Wait, what? Garmin? Not exactly the first company I personally think of [Read More]
Updated in January 2022 removed Bushnell Phantom, and added Phantom 2. Removed Bushnell Tour V4, and added Garmin Approach Z82. One of the best parts about being a golf blogger [Read More]
Over the years I’ve reviewed a lot of different golf tech products, but there’s one that I’ve been wanting to try that up until recently had eluded me: the FlightScope [Read More]
When it comes to buying a new set of golf clubs or golf balls, there’s a good chance Wilson isn’t the first name on your list of brands to check [Read More]
Simply put, there are very few golf courses in thw world that are as unique, and polarizing, as Tobacco Road in North Carolina. Before playing it I had one reader [Read More]
There are few places I’ve played golf that carry the weight of Winged Foot Golf Club. Upon driving down the driveway for the first (or second) time my palms were [Read More]
On paper Old Macdonald sounds like the perfect course. I mean almost literally. Look at it on paper… It’s an homage to C.B. Macdonald complete with 18 template holes. All the greats [Read More]
Being from the Pacific Northwest, one of the very last places I’d ever think about visiting or taking a vacation would have to be Bermuda. Honestly, I’ve never known much [Read More]
There is so much I could write about Sunriver, Oregon, that I’m almost not even sure where to begin. Sunriver is a resort destination in Central Oregon, about 15 minutes [Read More]
After two years of waiting patiently, it’s finally here: the Sheep Ranch at Bandon Dunes is now open for resort play. I could hardly contain my excitement as I made [Read More]
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The Black Course at Bethpage State Park in Farmingdale, New York has quickly become one of those pilgrimages every golfer has to make at some point in their lives. Why? [Read More]
For years now I’ve been on the fringe of some of the biohacking communities out there. I’ve had some friends that have gone deep down the rabbit hole into things [Read More]
When I started Breaking Eighty way back in 2012, I had an idea that I wanted to play the Top 100 public golf courses in America. That goal has since [Read More]
Every once in awhile, out the blue a golf course completely surprises and captivates you. During my very first golf road trip, there were a number of courses I was [Read More]
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Each year I review dozens of golf products, but it’s not very often I get truly excited about something. After my first half an hour on the range with the [Read More]
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These days there are countless ways to get distances on a golf course. You can use a rangefinder… You can use a golf watch… You can use an app. You [Read More]
My journey to Fishers Island happened in a very unexpected way. I was in New York City (you know, back when I used to travel), and saw that I had [Read More]
So I just returned from my second trip to California where I spent a long weekend staying at the Ritz Carlton Half Moon Bay and playing the two golf courses [Read More]
Second to Merion, Aronimink Golf Club is probably the club I was most familiar with before heading to Philadelphia. It’s always on the back end of some of America’s top [Read More]
With the Ryder Cup this past week at Whistling Straits, the golfing public got a great look at one of the very best public courses in the country. But it [Read More]
