by Steve Pike | Aug 14, 2026 | golf business, Golf Courses, Golf News, Instruction, Personalities, Privare clubs, Real Estate
Firefly, a new 700-acre luxury golf community in Spring Hill, TN. – 30 minutes south of Nashville and developed by Storied Development in partnership with Wheelock Street Capital – has named Joe Hallett as Director of Golf Instruction. Hallett will...
by Steve Pike | Jul 30, 2026 | Events, golf business, Golf Course Design, Golf Courses, Instruction, Privare clubs, USGA
Dutchman’s Pipe Club, in West Palm Beach, FL., on July 22, further cemented its growing reputation as one of South Florida’s premier championship venues by successfully hosting the Final Qualifier for the 126th U.S. Amateur Championship. The Club hosted...
by Steve Pike | Jul 22, 2026 | Instruction, Opinion, Technology
Part IV of Brian Sommer’s look at launch monitora The irony, of course, is that the better our measuring devices become, the more obvious their limitations become. Not technical limitations. Philosophical ones. TrackMan has improved. GCQuad has improved....
by Steve Pike | Jul 21, 2026 | golf business, Instruction, Opinion, Technology
Part III of Brian Sommer’s four-part series on launch monitors Every generation invents its own priesthood. Once it was theologians. Later it became psychoanalysts. Today, increasingly, it is data interpreters armed with iPads. Observe almost any modern lesson....
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 | Jul 15, 2026 | golf business, golf entertainment, Golf News, Instruction, Opinion, PGA Tour, Technology
Part I of Brian Sommer’s four-part look into the Priesthood of Numbers There is a peculiar superstition spreading through modern golf. Like all successful superstitions, it disguises itself as progress. It does not concern shallowing the club, wrist conditions,...
