by Steve Pike | Jul 15, 2026 | golf business, golf entertainment, Golf News, Instruction, Opinion, PGA Tour, Technology
Part I of Brian Sommer’s four-part look into the Priesthood of Numbers There is a peculiar superstition spreading through modern golf. Like all successful superstitions, it disguises itself as progress. It does not concern shallowing the club, wrist conditions,...
by Steve Pike | Jun 29, 2026 | golf business, Golf Course Design, Golf Courses, Golf News, Opinion, PGA Tour
Part III of Brian Sommer’s four-part essay on what the World Cup, Shinnecock Hills, and the Long Island Crowd Exposed .https://spikeongolfandtravel.com/professional-golf-stuck-between-profound-and-compelling/ The Spectator Problem Golf Pretends Not to Have By Brian...
by Steve Pike | Jun 15, 2026 | golf business, Golf Courses, Golf News, Hotels, Personalities, PGA Tour, Resorts, USGA
Omni Hotels & Resorts has announced new brand ambassador partnership with Jackson Koivun, the top-ranked men’s player in the World Amateur Golf Ranking. The partnership further highlights Omni’s significant investments in golf and its commitment...
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 13, 2026 | golf balls, golf business, Golf News, Personalities, PGA Tour, USGA
Although Cameron Young says he’s been playing the same ball for nearly one year, he finds himself this week in the middle of golf’s latest tempest-in-a-teapot controversy. Young has been playing a Titleist Pro V1x Double Dot ball, which by all accounts already meets...
by Steve Pike | May 13, 2026 | golf business, golf entertainment, Personalities, PGA Tour
In his two PGA Tour starts with his new McLaren irons, Justin Rose has posted a T-65 at the Cadillac Championship at Doral and T-45 at the Truist Championship. An inauspicious beginning for Rose and McLaren, to be sure. But the Englishman isn’t putting on the brakes...
