www.Go To The Mountain - Musings of a Potential Guru

Former Australian amateur golf champion turned golf club designer Thomas Crow founded a small golf club company in 1973 and called it Cobra Golf. Two years later he designed the first utility wood called the "Baffler" to become a new category of golf club. By 1985, he became the first manufacturer in the US to offer stock graphite shafts for woods and irons. In 1991, "The Shark" Greg Norman signed an endorsement contract and assisted him in Cobra's first forged irons. A year later, they introduced the first full set of over-sized irons. By 2006, Geoff Ogilvy, J.B. Holmes, Ian Poulter, Kevin Na and Camilo Villegas were on their tour sponsorship. Of course they started winning and the rest is history. I could go on and on but this was how far they have come. While adidas owns TaylorMade Golf now, Puma owns Cobra and both adidas (Adolf Dassler) and Puma (Rudolph Dassler) founders were German brothers. Who says the Germans are not so into golf? My only previous...

Ping  Ping is an illustrious golf company founded by the late Karsten Solheim and he gave us a great dimension in golf known as perimeter weighting first introduced in putters which Ping made the Anser putter that nobody wanted until Julius Boros won the PGA Tour's Phoenix Open in 1967. The "Anser" was actually meant to be the Answer but there isn't enough space on the putter so he took away the 'w' to save space on the advice of his wife. He so named the company from the sound the putter made on impact - "Ping". I like such history. He tells the story of human endeavours through the passage of time. He went on to create golf irons baed on the same principle of perimeter weighting and of course what were to follow in other equipment such a drivers, woods, hybrids, wedges and even more putters. Ping has a following of fans and has one of the best if not the best club-fitting systems in the world and they proceed to produce your irons after you have ...