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 22, 2026 | golf business, Golf News, Opinion, Personalities
By Brian Sommer There is a small dishonesty endemic to the modern golf-equipment review, and because it is small, cheerful and commercially useful, it is generally permitted to flourish. The reviewer receives the product. The reviewer photographs the product. The...
by Steve Pike | Aug 28, 2026 | Equipment, golf business, Golf News, Opinion
Part III of Brian Sommer’s three-part series on Moneyball, golf’s numbers gane, and what statistics truly show Golf has already embraced the visible part of Moneyball. We have the numbers. We have the models. We have the analysts. We have databases larger than...
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...
