by Steve Pike | Oct 16, 2026 | Equipment, golf business, Golf News, Instruction, Opinion, Technology
Out of the box, the Vistaget Golvia Ultra rangefinder is like most others in the category. It fits well in your hand, is lightweight (1.2 pounds) and comes in a handsome, black hardshell case. The Vistaget Golvia Ultra operates as simply as most other rangefinders...
by Steve Pike | Oct 8, 2026 | golf business, Golf News, Instruction, Opinion
By Brian Sommer Golf has never suffered from a shortage of people willing to tell you where to put your hands. For more than a century, instructors have drawn lines across photographs, counted knuckles, inspected thumbs, debated Vs, prescribed pressure points and...
by Steve Pike | Sep 20, 2026 | Equipment, golf business, Instruction, Technology
Special to spikeongolfandtravel.com Nearly every golfer has had that feeling of being lost on the greens (maybe Brad Faxon and Ben Crenshaw were exceptions). You’ve lost your confidence. You start guarding against three-putts on longer attempts and those 3- and...
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...
