by Steve Pike | May 18, 2026 | golf balls, golf business, Golf Courses, Golf News, Opinion, PGA Tour
By Brian Sommer There is a peculiar modern superstition that has crept into sport with the quiet confidence of something that believes it is merely “helping” the world become more governable by the more numerically it is described. It is the familiar, slightly smug...
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 1, 2026 | golf balls, golf business, Golf News
Bridgestone Golf will close its Covington, GA., ball manufacturing and testing facility effective June 30, 2026. Parent Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd., said the decision is part of the company’s efforts to “optimize its global supply chain” and strengthen...
by Steve Pike | Apr 22, 2026 | charity, golf balls, golf business, Golf News
In honor of Testicular Cancer Awareness Month, Bridgestone Golf has partnered with the Testicular Cancer Foundation (TCF) to release a limited-edition TOUR B RX golf ball. The golf ball features the TCF logo and is sold in a dozen-ball box ($59.99) with specialty...
by Steve Pike | Apr 7, 2026 | golf balls, golf business, Instruction, Opinion, Technology, Tiger Woods
By Brian Sommer I have been a longtime enthusiast of Bridgestone Golf, if enthusiast is the proper term for a loyalty forged not in marketing slogans but in empirical experience. My relationship with the company’s equipment dates to the mid-2000s, when Bridgestone...
by Steve Pike | Mar 20, 2026 | Equipment, golf balls, golf business, Golf News, Technology, Travel News
Nearly six months into its rebrand – as well as its 40th anniversary year – Tour Edge Golf continues to be on target for designing high quality game improvement clubs (Hot Launch) and premium clubs (Exotics) that make it one of the golf equipment...
