![]() The family was based in New York and operated out of an opulent suburban mansion. The Corleone family business was gambling and extortion. (Karsten Solheim was born in Norway in 1911 and died in Phoenix in 2000.) The Corleones - Vito, followed by Michael and finally Michael’s nephew Vincent - face a range of complicated succession issues, financial and emotional, as the Solheims have in real life.īut there the broad similarities end. Like the fictional Michael Corleone, Solheim runs a company founded by his European-born father. Still, when Solheim said he was in a “Godfather-type position,” it was a knowing nod. (This year, at both the Solheim Cup and the Junior Solheim Cup, he gave each player and captain a skateboard he designed.) Solheim, presumably, has never settled a business problem by way of a poisoned cannoli, as Connie Corleone does in Godfather III. He’s 75, an engineer by training, serious and quiet and not exactly immersed in pop culture, despite his new interest in skateboarding. Solheim is not a student of the movie trilogy. ![]() ![]() Solheim, the chairman and CEO of Ping, made a casual Godfather reference in a recent interview. Solheim, Ping chairman-to-be, standing guard over the company’s future - and its renowned Gold Putter Vault - at HQ. ![]()
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