Karsten Solheim

An engineer for General Electric (he helped design the "rabbit ear" antenna on GE's first portable TV), Solheim took up golf at age 42. He was frustrated with his clubs, so he turned his engineering skills to improving their design. He started Karsten Manufacturing in his garage, making a model out of popsicle sticks and sugar cubes. The resulting iron made such a distinctive "ping" when it hit the ball he named his club line "Ping", and the Ping clubs have been best-sellers since. He also sponsored women's golf tournaments to support women in the game. Solheim died February 16 in Phoenix from Parkinson's disease. He was 88. From This is True for 13 February 2000 Suggestions for further reading: The Making of the Masters: Clifford Roberts, Augusta National, and Golf's Mos... by David Owen Amazon Price: $12.00 Customer Review: Picked this up by chance at the library...and realized I was reading the book that is the Yin to the Yang of the Curt Sampson book The Masters : Golf, Money, and Power in Augusta, Georgia. Both books look at the same event. Owens focuse...   The Spirit of St. Andrews by Alister Mackenzie Amazon Price: $16.24 Customer Review: I feel that the spiritual aspect of golf is sometimes overrated or overwrought in various writings. Here, however, is a long-lost gem wherein Mackenzie, typically, gets it just right. The last two chapters on the societal benefits of golf and golf c...   Alister MacKenzie's Cypress Point Club by Geoff Shackelford Amazon Price: $29.70 Customer Review: This books captures the spirit, the history and the grandeur that is Cypress Point Golf Club. Alister Mackenzie was a golf architect extraordinaire. The black and white photo's capture the essence of a dream and the genesis of one of the foremost cou...   Augusta: Home of the Masters Tournament by Steve Eubanks Amazon Price: $19.00 Customer Review: It seems there's a new "unprecedented" book on Augusta and the Masters coming out every April these days, but this one was the first of its "investigative" ilk and it remains the best. Anything I had ever read in book form about Augusta/the Masters ...   A Golf Story: Bobby Jones, Augusta National, and the Masters Tournament by Charles Price Amazon Price: $19.95 Customer Review: I have most every book every written about Bob Jones, Augusta, The Masters including several by Mr. Price. I believe the author was trying to show the flowing and the "behind the brain scenes" of events. It rambles. There is no doubt that Mr. Price l...   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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