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...
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 30, 2026 | Golf News, Opinion, PGA Tour, The Masters, Tiger Woods
By Brian Sommer There is, in the modern golf industry, a peculiar and persistent habit of mistaking assertion for evidence. One hears, with almost sacramental regularity, that the game is “growing,” that participation is rising, that interest is expanding, that the...
by Steve Pike | Mar 24, 2026 | Apparel, golf business, Golf News, golf shoes, Opinion, Personalities
By Brian Sommer Sqairz is golf and athletics shoe a company that has made something of a minor theological movement out of the human toe. Its central doctrine is simple enough: that conventional golf shoes have, for too long, committed the quiet sin of compressing the...
by Steve Pike | Mar 23, 2026 | Equipment, golf business, Golf News, Opinion
For putter geeks such as myself, the only thing better than testing one Cobra putter is testing two Cobra putters. In this case, it’s the new Cobra 3DP Tour Supernova and the MIM Stingray. Cobra Golf for more than four decades has built a solid reputation for...
by Steve Pike | Mar 18, 2026 | Equipment, golf business, Instruction, Opinion
By Brian Sommer The annual thaw of the golf season is upon us, that peculiar interval when golfers emerge from their winter hibernations – like the celebrated groundhog of Punxsutawney, PA., – though unlike that furry oracle, they are less concerned with...
