Pike, Steve

Steve Pike is a multiple award-winning journalist and author who helped define golf business reporting in the early 1990s as the first Golf Business Editor for Golfweek magazine and later at Golf World and Golf Shop Operations magazines for The New York Times Magazine Group and Golf Digest. Pike further pioneered this genre at the PGA of America and Time Warner as the golf business writer and editor for PGA.com. As a travel, culinary and golf writer, "Spike" has climbed volcanoes in the Canary Islands, cruised the Rhine and Danube rivers, swam with sharks off Guadalupe Island, ascended the Great Wall of China, dived Australia's Great Barrier Reef, teed off in the Austrian Alps, and shared single-malt scotch with Sir Michael Bonallack at the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, Scotland. Spike is a popular guest on national golf radio shows, has been a panelist at various golf equipment seminars, and lectured at colleges on the golf business and sports marketing.