Break80 Podcast

Justin Rose blew the doors off the rest of the field this week at Torrey Pines to win his 13th PGA Tour title of his career. Rose started the week hot posting a -10 (62) on the North Course and kept the good play going en route to a record breaking performance in the event with a winning score of -23. We will discuss his play along with others who played well, including the return of Brooks Koepka, who hit it pretty well, but putted horribly in southern California.

It was a wild 3-man playoff on the DP World Tour which included Patrick Reed and Nelly Korda wins a shortened LPGA Tour event in Florida. All this and a wild underwear story on this weeks episode of the Break80 Podcast.

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The Break80 Podcast made its way to Florida for the 2026 PGA Show in Orlando. It was our first time at the PGA Show and we were both floored and overwhelmed with this golf industry insiders event.

Around 1 million square feet of golf industry stuff was there. From clothes and apparel to clubs and technology, we will talk about all that we saw and did at our first ever PGA Show.

While in Florida we went and played Cabot Citrus Farms and Streamsong. Both courses and properties were amazing and we will break down everything we thought about them, including some wild nature out at Streamsong.

Last but not least, it was another win for Scottie Scheffler, which is becoming the norm for the world number one player. We will give our reactions to his win and the event, which included an impressive showing for 18-year old, Blades Brown.

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The PGA Tour kicked off the 2026 season in Hawaii at the Sony Open. Chris Gotterup took home the title and moved to number 17 in the OWGR. We discuss the event and our thoughts on the golf course and Chris Gotterup.

Nacho Elvira won on the DP World Tour this week after a collapse by Shane Lowry on the final hole. Rory McIlroy could not capitalize on a great opening round, and finished two shots back of Elvira.

All this professional golf and the Good Good guys go to California. The podcast guys are off to Florida this week for the PGA Show and to play Cabot Citrus Farms and Streamsong.

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It was a wild Monday on the PGA Tour as CEO Brian Rolapp announced a new plan for certain players to be reinstated to the PGA Tour - one of those players will be Brooks Koepka. Koepka will make his PGA Tour return in a few weeks at Torrey Pines.

Anthony Kim played some clutch golf this week to finish third and qualify for a full season on LIV Golf in 2026. Kim made some birdies and clutch pars down the stretch to secure his spot.

The PGA Tour returns this week as players head to Hawaii for the Sony Open. We will do a quick discussion and make some picks for the first event of 2026.

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The 2026 PGA Tour season kicks off next week in Hawaii with the Sony Open. Mike and Jeff give their players to watch this season, interesting storylines and make some major predictions for the upcoming season.

LIV Golf added a few players this week and we do a brief discussion on what they have going on for 2026 as well.

Mike and Tim travelled to North Carolina to play multiple top courses in the state, including Pinehurst No. 2 and Old Town Club. There will be a short preview of an upcoming travel episode about our trip.

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Caleb Kroloff - Director of Woods R&D at PXG joins the podcast to discuss the new PXG Lightning Woods lineup.

We do a deep dive into the new technology, best of industry practices and how PXG is maximizing results in a highly regulated golf space. Learn about the engineering and in-depth science behind how some of the best clubs in the industry are made and how they can directly impact your game from the professional to amateur level. 

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Brooks Koepka and LIV Golf announced today that he will not being playing on their tour in 2026. It raises a lot of questions about Koepka's future and if he will get back on the PGA Tour in 2027.

We take a deep dive into which golfers in history would be the best to drink a beer with and then an even deeper dive into historic figures and people we would want to drink a beer with. A true segment of chaos on the pod.

At year end, we discuss our highlights from the year, best courses we played and things we need to work on for 2026.

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Len Ferman, the Sports Time Traveler and author of "Great Golf Tournaments Volume 1" joins the podcast to talk about living in the first person through in-person experiences and news releases as we explore some of golf's most memorable moments in the age of The Big Three.

His book takes a look back at the time of Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Gary Player along with some of the unknown and untold stories from the era. 

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Scottie Scheffler won his fourth straight PGA Tour Player of the Year Award, becoming just the 3rd player to do that, joining Tiger Woods and Tom Watson. We will discuss his year vs. Rory McIlroy's year.

Andrew Novak and Lauren Coughlin won the Grant Thornton mixed team event this week in Florida. For Novak it was his 2nd team win of the year. Coughlin took home the largest paycheck of her career in their record breaking win at -28.

That and the pod talks trips to North Carolina and getting meta glasses.

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The final week of meaningful golf for 2025 has came and went with the Australian Open at Royal Melbourne, Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas and the DP World Tour in South Africa. We will review the three events and give our thoughts on each of them.

It is simulator season for those of us in cold climates and we are going to discuss the good and bad of simulator golf and whether it has become a necessity in the winter.

Brooks Koepka made the news this week with talk of him not playing LIV Golf. Where this will go is anyones guess, but we will discuss some possibilities for Koepka.

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