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...
by Steve Pike | Mar 10, 2026 | Equipment, golf balls, golf business, Golf News, Opinion, PGA Tour
By Brian Sommer In the long, fluorescent afterglow of the PGA Show where exaggeration is mistaken for progress and marketing copy is delivered with the confidence of natural law we are once again invited to marvel at the new golf ball. Faster. Longer. More stable....
by Steve Pike | Mar 5, 2026 | golf balls, golf business, Golf News, Instruction, Technology
The most-talked new product of 2026 – GENIUS – a first-of-its-kind golf ball featuring embedded electronics that capture crucial putting data – is expected to drop this summer. A big hit at the PGA Show this past January in Orlando, GENIUS Chief...
by Steve Pike | Feb 28, 2026 | Equipment, Fashion, Fitness, golf balls, golf business, Golf News, golf shoes, Instruction, shoes
In a Feb. 26 conference call with Wall Street analysts, David Maher, president/CEO of Titleist/FootJoy parent Acushnet (GOLF), said his company “is enthused’’ about the overall market, “and really led by what is happening at the golfer base, in the U.S.’’ Acushnet...
by Steve Pike | Feb 14, 2026 | Apparel, Equipment, Fashion, golf balls, golf business, golf entertainment, Golf News, Personalities
Callaway Golf’s (CALY) sale of 60 percent of Topgolf to Leonard Green & Partners, which closed this past Jan. 5 for $1.1 billion, included approximately $800 million in cash in this transaction. Callaway Golf President/CEO Chip Brewer told Wall Street analysts his...
