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 11, 2026 | golf business, LIV Golf, Opinion, Personalities, PGA Tour
By Brian Sommer What we are noticing is neither a scheduling quirk, nor a petty inconsistency dressed up as gossip. It is something far more revealing and, if one is honest, far less comfortable: a sport attempting to reinvent itself under duress while insisting,...
by Steve Pike | May 3, 2026 | Golf News, LIV Golf, Opinion, Personalities
What do Gordie Howe, Doug Williams, Larry Csonka, George Blanda and Rick Barry each have in common? Go ahead… I’ll wait…. Long enough. Each of these men jumped leagues to start-up rival leagues and returned to their original leagues without being punished by...
by Steve Pike | Apr 30, 2026 | Apparel, Fashion, golf business, Golf News, Opinion
Last year I opined on the-then newly released Forrester’s/Payntr golf shoe collaboration. In doing so, I found myself once again confronting the singular achievement of what I shall call the Jones Boys. No, not Robert Sr, Robert Jr and Rees, but Chris Carnahan...
by Steve Pike | Apr 24, 2026 | Equipment, golf business, Golf News, Opinion, Technology
Putting. It is the one stroke in golf that admits all applicants without prejudice. It does not inquire into age, athletic pedigree, or anatomical fortune. It requires neither speed nor strength, neither fast-twitch musculature nor heroic violence. It asks only that a...
by Steve Pike | Apr 16, 2026 | golf business, Golf Courses, Golf News, Opinion, PGA Tour, Private Clubs, The Masters
By Brian Sommer Once again, we arrive at that peculiar annual pilgrimage to the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta GA., a place so meticulously curated in its own mythology that it begins to resemble less a geographical location than a softly enforced...
