by Steve Pike | May 13, 2026 | golf balls, golf business, Golf News, Personalities, PGA Tour, USGA
Although Cameron Young says he’s been playing the same ball for nearly one year, he finds himself this week in the middle of golf’s latest tempest-in-a-teapot controversy. Young has been playing a Titleist Pro V1x Double Dot ball, which by all accounts already meets...
by Steve Pike | May 13, 2026 | golf business, golf entertainment, Personalities, PGA Tour
In his two PGA Tour starts with his new McLaren irons, Justin Rose has posted a T-65 at the Cadillac Championship at Doral and T-45 at the Truist Championship. An inauspicious beginning for Rose and McLaren, to be sure. But the Englishman isn’t putting on the brakes...
by Steve Pike | May 13, 2026 | Events, golf business, Golf Course Design, Golf Courses, Resorts, Travel News
As Aronimink Golf Club – a Donald Ross classic in Newtown Square, PA – takes center stage for this week’s PGA Championship, fans and especially golf architecture pundits will be focused on the master’s legendary layout. But nearly 700 miles...
by Steve Pike | May 11, 2026 | golf business, LIV Golf, Opinion, Personalities, PGA Tour
By Brian Sommer What we are noticing is neither a scheduling quirk, nor a petty inconsistency dressed up as gossip. It is something far more revealing and, if one is honest, far less comfortable: a sport attempting to reinvent itself under duress while insisting,...
by Steve Pike | May 10, 2026 | Casinos, golf business, Golf Courses, Golf News, Resorts, Travel News
Island Resort & Casino, one of the Midwest’s premier golf destinations, in July will open for preview play its nine-hole Cedar Course, with a full opening slated for 2027. The Cedar Course becomes the third course at the Upper Peninsula resort, in Harris, joining...
