We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again here and now.
If Karsten Solheim isn’t on your Mount Rushmore of golf, I suggest you seriously reflect on your decision-making and find where you went wrong.
It doesn’t matter what brand of golf equipment you’re playing; PING’s DNA is in there somewhere. Most of the technology we see OEMs building upon today, whether it’s low CG, perimeter weighting, spin control or maximum MOI, can be traced back to the man who founded PING in his garage in 1959.
“He just had a different approach,” PING Engineering VP Paul Wood tells MyGolfSpy. “He was an engineer rather than a craftsman, an engineer who thought, ‘How do I help people? How do I build a better mousetrap?’”
That aura remains at PING’s Scottsdale, Ariz., headquarters to this day. PING employees will say they still feel Solheim’s presence, nearly a quarter of a century after his passing.















