by Steve Pike | Aug 5, 2026 | Golf Course Design, Golf Courses, Golf News, Opinion, PGA Tour, Resorts, Travel News
Part II of Brian Soomer’s Four-Part Series: Harbour Town Golf Links: Its History, Restoration, and Enduring Appeal The Enduring Appeal of Harbour Town Golf Links By Brian Sommer I have played Harbour Town Golf Links perhaps a dozen times. Its character is...
by Steve Pike | Aug 3, 2026 | golf business, Golf Course Design, Golf Courses, Golf News, Opinion, Resorts, Travel News
Part I of Brian Sommer’s four-part series on Harbour Town Golf Links By Brian Sommer More than half a century after its debut, Harbour Town remains one of golf’s most persuasive rebukes to the modern superstition that greater length must mean greater difficulty,...
by Steve Pike | Jul 27, 2026 | Equipment, golf business, Golf News, Opinion, Technology
By Brian Sommer There are clubs’ golfers use. And then there are clubs’ golfers develop relationships with. For me, wedges have always belonged to the second category. I have been a wedge fan for as long as I can remember playing golf. One could probably say I collect...
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....
by Steve Pike | Jul 19, 2026 | Golf News, Opinion, R & A, Rules of Golf, Tiger Woods, USGA
By Brian Sommer Professional golf has spent centuries polishing its image. Its competitors wear collared shirts. Spectators whisper. Hats are removed after the final putt. Broadcasters lower their voices as though the eighteenth green were a chapel rather than a...
