In a Feb. 26 conference call with Wall Street analysts, David Maher, president/CEO of Titleist/FootJoy parent Acushnet...
Steve Pike
SR. Writer
Steve “Spike” Pike is a lifelong journalist whose career covers Major League Baseball, the NFL, and college basketball. For the past 26 years, Spike has been one of the more respected voices in the golf and travel industries, working for such publications as Golfweek, Golf World, and Golf Digest for The New York Times Magazine Group. In 1998, Spike helped launch the PGA.com website for the PGA of America. As a freelance travel and golf writer, Spike’s travels have taken him around the world. He has played golf from Pebble Beach to St. Andrews, walked the Great Wall of China, climbed an active volcano in the Canary Islands, been on safari in South Africa, and dived with sharks off Guadalupe, Baja California.
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Talking Titleist Club Heads and Tariffs Exposure
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Megan Johnston and the “Why” of the Golf Swing
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