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PING SHOULD'VE DIED THREE TIMES. IT BURIED ITS RIVALS INSTEAD. It is June of nineteen eighty-seven, in Far Hills, New Jersey — the headquarters of the United States Golf Association. A man lays a golf club on a table, places its face under magnification, and measures the distance between two grooves. His name was Frank Thomas. He was the association's technical director — the man whose job it was to decide which golf equipment in America was legal, and which was not. What he finds, by his own method of measuring, is a violation. The grooves are spaced too closely together. The offending distance — the gap between legal and illegal — is roughly the width of a human hair. That measurement should have been the end of Ping. Instead, a stubborn Norwegian engineer dragged the USGA and the PGA Tour into federal court over $100 million — and made both of them blink. This is the story of the golf brand that should have died three times: the groove war, the death of its founder, and the dark times that buried nearly every rival it ever had. And why, alone among the great American clubmakers, Ping is still standing. Did you game a set of Ping Eye 2 irons back in the day? Tell me in the comments — which year you bought them, which course you played them on, and whether anyone ever grumbled about those grooves. If these stories of American golf's golden age mean something to you, subscribe here: youtube.com/@PersimmonArchive?sub_confirmation=1 People and clubs in this story: Karsten Solheim, Louise Solheim, John Solheim, John K. Solheim, Frank Thomas (USGA), Deane Beman, Frank Hannigan, Julius Boros, George Archer, John Barnum, Phil Mickelson, Scott McCarron, Ely Callaway, Tiger Woods, Ping 1A putter, Ping Anser, Ping Cushin, Ping Eye 2 irons, Ping G2 driver, Karsten Manufacturing, the Solheim Cup, the 1990 square grooves settlement, the 2010 groove rule controversy. Sources include: federal court records (Karsten Manufacturing Corp. v. United States Golf Association, D. Ariz., 1989), Golf Digest, the Los Angeles Times, the World Golf Hall of Fame, PING company heritage archives, and published interviews with Frank Hannigan and members of the Solheim family.

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