Company type | Private |
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Industry | Sports equipment |
Founded | 1959 |
Founder | Karsten Solheim |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | John A. Solheim, Chairman and CEO |
Products | Golf clubs, bags |
Website | ping.com |
Ping, Inc. (stylized as PING) is an American sports equipment manufacturing company based in Phoenix, Arizona. It focuses on golf equipment, producing golf clubs and golf bags. The company was founded by Karsten Solheim, following a career as an engineer at the General Electric company. In 1959, he started making putters in his garage in Redwood City, California.[1] In 1967, he resigned from his job at General Electric to develop the PING company.