The Back Nine. 6:00 AM · Free

A daily money note for golfers

Written at the range.
Reads like the 19th hole.

One money idea every morning, for people who own securities, run companies, and still find a 9:40 tee time. No jargon. No hedging. No 800-word windups.

The daily format

One issue a day. Three things in it.

The whole thing fits between your coffee and your warm-up swings. Every morning, every weekday.

01

One money topic

A single thing happening in markets, business, or your own money — explained like you've got a tee time, because you do.

02

One opinion

Tyler's actual read on it. He's wrong sometimes. He'll tell you when. No "it depends," no both-sides, no fence to sit on.

03

One thing worth forwarding

A line, a number, a fact you'll text to the group chat before you've finished the cart-girl's first lap.

Yesterday's issue

This is the whole thing.

Not a teaser. Not "subscribe to read more." This is the length, the voice, the point.

The Back Nine. No. 214 · Tue, Jun 9, 2026 · 6:02 AM
Today's topic

The ball you curse on 18 runs a better business than you'd think.

The company that makes the Pro V1s you lose every Saturday just had their CFO buy $480K in open market stock last Tuesday.

Acushnet is GOLF ▲ 23% YTD on the year, carries zero debt, and just raised guidance.

The ball you curse on 18 is quietly one of the better run companies in consumer goods.

— Tyler
Written at the range, 6 a.m. Coffee No. 2.

That's it. That's the issue. See you tomorrow.

Who writes this

Tyler Peterson.

47. Plays off an eight, on a good week. He writes The Back Nine from the driving range at 6 a.m. — before the course opens, before the inbox wakes up, and before anyone can tell him he's wrong.

He's occasionally wrong. He'll tell you first. The rest of the time he's the guy in your foursome who actually read the 10-K, and somehow makes it the most interesting thing said at the 19th hole.

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Pour the coffee.
We'll handle the money part.

A daily money note for golfers who'd rather read one good idea than scroll a hundred bad ones.