His career spans engineering, aerospace, automotive, semiconductor operations, and high-performance competition. His path started at Ohio State in the 1950s, watching a young Jack Nicklaus play.
Decades later his wife Mary told him to find something to do. He walked into a San Mateo golf store, saw "Help Wanted", took the job — and that's where Dr. Grip was born.
That led to Butler Irons, a Half Moon Bay fitting studio where even Neil Young stopped by, a Miura dealership, TrackMan, and Golf Digest recognition as one of the top fitters in the country.
One question kept nagging: the clubs are fit — what ball should the player use? So he built a physics model validated against Tour player data, and rebuilt it with AI into the tool you're looking at now.
That's The Golf Ball Fitter.