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 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...   History: Fiction or Science? Dating methods as offered by mathematical statis... by Anatoly Fomenko Amazon Price: $9.95 Customer Review: This book will blow your mind, if you let it. Many people will find this books conclusions impossible to swallow for the direct assault on so many commonly but uncritically held beliefs about historical and even personal family timelines.   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...   Play Away Please: The Tale of the Sale of Golf's Greatest Icon -The St Andrew... by John Peter Hagen Amazon Price: $18.96 Customer Review: I just finished PLAY AWAY PLEASE in tears...of joyous admiration. While enjoying the highly sophisticated and fascinating writing style, I thought the author, John Hagen, either had an exceptional memory, a great imagination or just a love of the ga...   St Andrews Links: Six Centuries of Golf by Tom Jarrett, Peter Mason Amazon Price: $23.10 Customer Review: When I heard about ST. ANDREWS: SIX CENTURIES OF GOLF I couldn't move fast enough to obtain a personal copy. As the title seemed to imply, I looked forward to reading about golf as it had been played since before Christopher Columbus at the Hom...   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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