by Steve Pike | Aug 6, 2026 | Equipment, golf balls, golf business, Golf News
Strong second quarter 2026 sales and earnings from Titleist parent Acushnet Co., (GOLF: NYSE) has prompted the company to raise its full-year sales to be in the range of $2.65 billion to $2.675 billion – up 4.1 percent at the midpoint. “This outlook...
by Steve Pike | Jul 27, 2026 | Equipment, golf business, Golf News, Opinion, Technology
By Brian Sommer There are clubs’ golfers use. And then there are clubs’ golfers develop relationships with. For me, wedges have always belonged to the second category. I have been a wedge fan for as long as I can remember playing golf. One could probably say I collect...
by Steve Pike | Jul 21, 2026 | Equipment, golf business, Golf News, Technology
Garmin (NYSE: GRMN) today unveiled Approach Z10 ($299.99), a compact laser rangefinder it says provides precise measurements to the pin of up to 350 yards with six times magnification. Weighing less than seven ounces, the rangefinder is smaller and lighter than most...
by Steve Pike | Jul 16, 2026 | Equipment, golf business, golf entertainment, Instruction, Opinion, Technology
Part II of Brian Sommer’s four-part series: Why Golf Monitors Cannaot Save Golf The phrase “key statistics” deserves rather more attention than it usually receives. Not because there is anything inherently wrong with statistics. There isn’t....
by Steve Pike | Jun 25, 2026 | Equipment, golf balls, golf business, Golf News, Opinion
By Brian Sommer There is a peculiar modern superstition in golf – one that passes for science simply because it is accompanied by numbers. Launch monitors hum, TrackMan units blink with authority, and fitting sessions proceed with the solemnity of laboratory...
by Steve Pike | Jun 17, 2026 | Equipment, golf business, Golf News, Instruction, Opinion
By Brian Sommer There is a peculiar modern superstition in golf equipment design – polished, efficient, technologically fluent, and utterly convinced of its own benevolence. It is the belief that if one refines geometry sufficiently, redistributes mass with...
