Everyone seems to know that the Ryder Cup is named for — altogether now — the British seed merchant Samuel Ryder, who donated the trophy. But how many people know that the Solheim Cup is named for a transplanted Norwegian named Karsten Solheim, who started making a pinging putter in a garage in Phoenix that eventually became an innovative club-manufacturing empire known throughout golfdom as Ping, a division of Karsten Manufacturing?
It’s all true!
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“We gave them three options for the name of the event,” John Solheim, one of Karsten’s sons, now in his early 80s, said the other day. His them was the organizing bodies that put on the…
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