by Steve Pike | Aug 25, 2026 | Equipment, Fitness, golf business, Golf News, Instruction, Opinion, PGA Tour
Part II of Brian Sommer’s three-part series on Moneyball, golf’s numbers gane, and what statistics truly show Take the “mental game.” A golfer gets angry. Then hits another poor shot. Observation. Now: “He carried the anger into the next shot.” Explanation. Then:...
by Steve Pike | Aug 24, 2026 | Equipment, Fitness, golf balls, golf business, Golf Courses, golf entertainment, Golf News, Instruction, Opinion, PGA Tour
Part I of Brian Sommer’s three-part series on Moneyball, golf’s numbers gane, and what statistics truly show Data Can Describe Greatness. That Does Not Mean It Explains It Baseball had statistics long before Bill James. That is worth remembering, because...
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....
