Premiering now on Golf Channel, each of the three commercials concludes with a final hand-off from PING president John K. Solheim to a custom-fit PING ambassador.

Karsten SolheimPING / FounderKarsten Solheim was an American golf club designer and businessman. He founded Karsten Manufacturing, a golf club maker better known by the name of PING, and the Solheim Cup, the premier international team competition in women's golf. Wikipedia

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. In 1967, he resigned from his job at General Electric to develop the PING company.

(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.

A ping (Packet Internet or Inter-Network Groper) is a basic Internet program that allows a user to test and verify if a particular destination IP address exists and can accept requests in computer network administration. The acronym was contrived to match the submariners' term for the sound of a returned sonar pulse.

Karsten SolheimPING / FounderKarsten Solheim was an American golf club designer and businessman. He founded Karsten Manufacturing, a golf club maker better known by the name of PING, and the Solheim Cup, the premier international team competition in women's golf. Wikipedia

now runs the company, founded the company that would become Ping in his garage in Redwood City, Calif. A former engineer for General Electric who most famously developed the “rabbit ears” TV antenna, he started selling his putters in 1959 and turned his attention to his golf company fulltime in 1967.

The name "PING" came from the sound that Solheim heard as the metal struck the ball. Popular musician-golfer Murray Arnold shared in 1960 that the clubhead, on striking the ball, rings out with the 440 pitch used in tuning pianos.

Ping operates by means of Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packets. Pinging involves sending an ICMP echo request to the target host and waiting for an ICMP echo reply.

The full form of PING is the Packet InterNet Groper. It is a computer network management system software or utility software used to test the network communication between two devices.

The Ping tool is used to test whether a particular host is reachable across an IP network. A Ping measures the time it takes for packets to be sent from the local host to a destination computer and back. The Ping tool measures and records the round-trip time of the packet and any losses along the way.

The company name 'Ping' was named because of the sound the ball made when it hit the metal face. 9. The company has a gold putter vault to commemorate a golfer's victory using a Ping putter. The tradition began in the 1970's and each winner is presented with a gold putter that matches their putter specs.