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.

2024 Golf Balls

The 2024 golf ball season is here, and it’s packed with new and exciting releases from all the major brands. Whether you’re a low-handicap golfer looking for maximum distance and spin, or a high-handicapper looking for more forgiveness and feel, there’s a new ball out there that’s perfect for you.

Scotty Cameron Goes Long

Scotty Cameron: Obtain a more stable putting stroke and a connected feel with the new Long Design putters.

Circana to Acquire Golf Datatech

Circana, formerly IRI and The NPD Group, has entered into an agreement to acquire Golf Datatech, the golf industry’s leading independent market research firm. Golf Datatech tracks and delivers insights into golf retail sales, inventory, pricing, distribution, and consumer behavior across the U.S., U.K., Sweden, France, and Germany.

Walt Disney’s World Began at Mission Resort + Club

Walt Disney Slept Here. As a youngster growing up in suburban Chicago in the early 1900s, Disney, like other Midwesterners, spent winters in the warm rolling hills of Central Florida. The story goes that young Walt even ventured to fellow Chicagoan William John...