Spoiler: We're not settling anything. But we're going to have a lot of fun trying. Every golfer has an opinion on this. Ask someone at the first tee. Ask someone at the turn. Ask the guy who's been playing the same muni every Saturday morning for thirty years and has very strong feelings about everything related to golf including this. You will not get the same answer twice. And that's exactly why we're here. The Question Nobody Can Actually Answer Who is the greatest golfer

Public Golf. No Filter. By GRIPIT Golf There’s country club golf…And then there’s golf with soul. The kind where the starter calls you “buddy,” the cart path has potholes older than your driver, and somebody in your foursome is absolutely cracking a beer on hole 3. These aren’t the fanciest golf courses west of the Mississippi.They’re the most GRIPIT. The munis with stories. Characters. Views. Chaos. Vibes. Here are the 10 public golf courses west of the Mississippi that ever

By GRIPIT Golf Society | Golf Culture | 7 min read | Keywords: municipal golf course, types of golfers, muni golf, golf humor If you’ve played more than a handful of rounds at your local muni, you already know the cast of characters. They’re everywhere. They’re unavoidable. And honestly? They’re what makes public golf the greatest show in sports. At GRIPIT Golf Society, we believe the muni is the soul of the game. No dress codes. No pretension. No waiting for the member

GRIPIT GOLF SOCIETY The Blog — Golf Culture, Gear & Absolutely No Khaki By GRIPIT Golf Society | Local Golf | 8 min read | Keywords: best golf courses Park City Utah, Park City golf, where to golf Park City, golf guide Park City Park City, Utah is one of the most underrated golf destinations in the American West. Most people know it for world-class skiing, the Sundance Film Festival, and Main Street's restaurant scene. What they often overlook is that the same dramatic

Michelle Wie West's first course design is everything golf should be — and it's coming to Candyroot Lodge. There's a version of retirement that looks like a slow fade. Press conference, farewell round, the occasional charity appearance. And then there's Michelle Wie West's version. Where It All Started Before the majors. Before the LPGA wins. Before the historic attempts on the men's tour that made the whole world pay attention — there was a par-3 course in Hawaii. Michelle W

Every Saturday morning group has the same people in it. The names change. The handicaps vary. The courses rotate. But the characters — the characters are universal. If you have played public golf for any amount of time you have met every single one of these people. You may in fact be one of them. No judgment. We love all of you. Here is your official field guide. The Swing Doctor The Swing Doctor has been Playing golf for eleven years and has had seventeen different swings in

Let us get one thing straight right out of the gate. The mulligan is not a sign of weakness. It is not a character flaw. It is not something you need to apologize for, whisper about, or hide from your playing partners like a lost ball in the rough. The mulligan is a philosophy. And if you play public golf the way it was meant to be played, you already know this. Here is where the mulligan gets a bad reputation. Somewhere along the way the golf establishment decided that every

Let's get one thing straight before we tee off: golf has always had a language problem. A beautiful, hilarious, completely accidental language problem. The kind that makes first-timers blush, seasoned players grin, and everyone at the 19th hole lose it when someone drops the wrong phrase at the wrong moment. Welcome to GripIt Golf Society — where the gear is sharp, the community is real, and yes, we absolutely leaned into every single one of these. The Official (Unofficial) G

Tony Golden Apr 24 3 min read Let's get one thing straight before we tee off: golf has always had a language problem. A beautiful, hilarious, completely accidental language problem. The kind that makes first-timers blush, seasoned players grin, and everyone at the 19th hole lose it when someone drops the wrong phrase at the wrong moment. Welcome to GripIt Golf Society — where the gear is sharp, the community is real, and yes, we absolutely leaned into every single one of thes

By GRIPIT Golf Society | Local Golf | 8 min read | Keywords: best public golf courses Salt Lake City, muni golf SLC, Salt Lake City golf guide, public golf Utah Salt Lake City doesn’t get nearly enough credit as a golf destination. Dramatic mountain backdrops, more than 200 days of sunshine a year, and a collection of public courses that punch well above their weight. Whether you’re a local looking for your next regular track or a visitor with a free afternoon, SLC’s pu

By Tony Golden, Co-Founder | Golf Culture | 6 min read | Keywords: golf apparel, golf culture, golf lifestyle brand, modern golf style, golf fashion I want to talk about khaki for a second. Specifically, I want to talk about why golf has been drowning in it for the better part of five decades and why it’s time for something different. I’ve been playing golf my whole life. I love this game with everything I have. And for years I watched the culture around it calcify into

GRIPIT GOLF SOCIETY The Blog — Golf Culture, Gear & Absolutely No Khakis By GRIPIT Golf Society | Golf Style | 7 min read | Keywords: t-shirts on golf course, polo shirts golf, golf dress code, can you wear a t-shirt golfing, golf apparel guide 2026 Few topics divide the golf world quite like this one. On one side: the traditionalists. Collar required. Always has been. Always will be. The polo shirt is the uniform of golf and questioning it is tantamount to questioning

GRIPIT GOLF SOCIETY The Blog — Golf Culture, Gear & Absolutely No Khaki By Tony Golden, Co-Founder | Brand Story | 8 min read | Keywords: golf lifestyle brand, golf apparel brand story, GRIPIT Golf Society, Park City Utah, golf culture 2026 Let me be straight with you about something. I didn’t grow up surfing. I grew up in landlocked America, nowhere near an ocean, with zero legitimate claim to surf culture. I was never the guy who logged thousands of hours reading wave

The Blog — Golf Culture, Gear & Absolutely No Khaki The Ultimate Father's Day Golf Gift Guide 2026 — For the Dad Who Lives for Saturday Morning Father's Day is June 15th. The clock is ticking. If your dad is a golfer — and statistically there's a very good chance he is — you already know that buying a golf gift for a golfer is either the easiest thing in the world or a complete minefield depending on how well you know their game. Buy the wrong balls and you'll hear about it o

The 2026 US Open at Shinnecock Hills — The GRIPIT Guide to Golf's Toughest Test It's back. And it's going to be brutal. The 2026 United States Open Championship tees off June 18th at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, New York — and if you know anything about Shinnecock, you already know that the world's best golfers are about to be thoroughly and publicly humiliated in the most prestigious way possible. That's the US Open. That's why we love it. At GRIPIT Golf Societ

By GRIPIT Golf Society | Public Golf. No Filter. Golf has always had its uniform. Pressed polos. Pleated slacks. Shoes that cost more than your first car. The whole industry spent decades telling you exactly what a golfer was supposed to look like — and more importantly, what they were supposed to act like. Then a handful of players showed up and said: hard pass. These aren't the guys in the blazers. These are the golfers who showed up to the sport on their own terms — loud,

Our picks to shine, the field to watch, and one unicorn you need to know. The 81st U.S. Women's Open is heading somewhere it's never been before — and it couldn't be a more fitting stage. Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, California plays host to the championship June 4–7, marking the first time a USGA women's championship has ever been held at the historic venue. The same course that's hosted U.S. Opens and U.S. Amateurs on the men's side finally gets its women's ma