Golf Media Network and The A Position consist of eight founding member/writers who among them have written more than
20 books and thousands of articles for such publications as The New York Times, USA Today, Sports Illustrated, Golf Digest, GOLF Magazine, Money, Outside,
Men's Journal, Men's Health, Cigar Aficionado, and many, many others. They have visited, reviewed, and written about thousands of the world's best golf courses in more than
50 countries on six continents, and served on course award panels for numerous major national magazines. The founding members have also won many awards and accolades
themselves, and served as editors at several of the best golf publications, including
Golf Magazine, Travel and Leisure Golf, Links Magazine, and others.
Every one of the founding members makes a memorable scramble partner.
Founding Writers
Jeff Wallach
Jeff is the author of five books, including Beyond The Fairway and Driven to Extremes, and hundreds of articles in a variety of national golf, travel, and outdoor publications. Wallach is a managing partner and executive editor of Golf Media Network, the parent company of The A Position.
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Chris Santella
Chris is the author of eight books, including the popular "Fifty Places To ___ Before You Die" series from Stewart, Tabori & Chang, and a regular contributor to the New York Times, Forbes.com and many fly fishing publications.
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John Strawn
John is the former CEO of Robert Trent Jones II and current President of Arthur Hills/Steve Forrest and Associates, and author of Driving the Green. Strawn's contributions to The A Position will include in-depth interviews with the world's leading golf course designers, as well as commentary on how golf is spreading into new regions, how the economy effects golf, and how he sees the culture of golf evolving.
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Larry Olmsted
Larry is a weekly columnist for USA Today and author of the book Getting Into Guinness and more than 3000 articles on golf, travel and lifestyle for major newspapers and national magazines.
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David Gould
David is the former Executive Editor of Travel + Leisure Golf, former Editor-in-Chief of LINKS Magazine, and author of four books, including The Golfer's Code and Q School Confidential: Inside Golf's Cruelest Tournament.
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Brian McCallen
Brian was Senior Editor at GOLF Magazine for 16 years and is the author of three golf/travel books for Harry N. Abrams: Golf's Best New Destinations (2006), Top 100 Courses You Can Play (1999), and Golf Resorts of the World (1993).
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Scott Kauffman
Scott is a former staff writer for USA Today, the Orlando Sentinel, and the Golfweek Group; senior columnist for the RealEstateChannel.com; and a leading writer about golf course real estate and luxury resort-style development with more than 20 years of full-time print, broadcast, and public relations experience.
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Tom Harack
Tom is one of the most widely traveled golf writers in the world, with innumerable published articles and photographs to his credit. Harack currently serves as Saigon bureau chief for Mandarin Media, a media relations firm in Southeast Asia and the United States.
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Bob Senoff
Bob Senoff is an avid golfer and professional Internet Venture Capitalist. Aside from being a Founding Partner and CEO of TheAPosition.com, Bob is a Managing Director of New Millennium Partners. Bob believes the TheAPosition.com offers top professional golf writers the ability to put their talents to work for themselves and as a community.
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Contributing Editors
Jim Moore
Jim was a sportswriter at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for 26 years until the newspaper closed in March 2009. The paper maintained its website, and he continues to write sports columns for seattlepi.com.
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James A. Frank
Jim stumbled into golf more than 30 years ago, first picking up a club while attending a week-long golf school at Pinehurst. That experience turned into his first writing assignment on golf, and in less than four years he was Executive Editor of Golf Magazine. He worked there for more than 18 years, serving as Editor from 1990 until leaving in 2003.
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Tim O'Connor
Based in Rockwood, Ontario, Tim O'Connor offers a Canadian perspective, but that doesn't mean he's always going to be nice and try to get along with everyone. Of course, he loves hockey too, so he does have a fiesty side.
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Chris Duthie
Taking a cue from his Scottish ancestral roots, Colorado native Chris Duthie has been an avid golfer since the wee age of six when he discovered that a cut-down, hickory-shafted five-iron could do a serious number on apples, mushrooms and his mother's prized tulips
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Tom Bedell
Tom has written about golf and golf travel for American Airlines’ luxury magazine Celebrated Living since 1999, and has contributed to Travel & Leisure Golf, Golf Connoisseur, Virtuoso Life, Lexus Magazine, Acura Style, Tee It Up, American Way, The Met Golfer and many others.
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Casey Alexander
Casey Alexander is a Special Situations Analyst for Gilford Securities, Inc. He is one of the leading analysts on Wall Street covering the Golf Equipment Industry and has served as an expert witness in legal proceedings pertaining to the Golf Industry.
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Jason
Jason Kerkmans has worked as both an editor and freelance writer for a number of outdoor, golf, travel, and lifestyle publications, and has written more than 200 articles on topics ranging from fly-fishing in New Zealand and golfing in Scotland to interviews with notable personalities.
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Timothy Nolan
Timothy Nolan writes about golf and travel. He has published a fair number of articles and essays in print publications, and looks forward to the flexibility and give-and take with readers that come with working on the Web. Earlier in his career, he worked as an executive speechwriter, and as an editor in the New York Times Custom Publishing unit.
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Jeff Ritter
Jeff Ritter is one of the world's most prominent golf instructors with a presence that reaches all corners of the globe. Hailed for his unique approach to coaching, Jeff's method of communication utilizes creative concepts from all walks of life in a manner that inspires his students and makes this difficult game seem effortless.
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David Barrett
David Barrett was an editor at Golf Magazine for 18 years and has written two books on golf–Golf Courses of the U.S. Open and Golf's Dream 18s. A long time ago, back when Seve Ballesteros and Tom Watson were the perennial favorites, he covered the Masters (as well as SEC football, ACC basketball, etc.) for The Augusta Chronicle.
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Derek Duncan
In an era when golf writers are accustomed to being ushered from place to exotic place via air, Derek Duncan broke into the profession the old fashioned way: by car. Upon moving to Florida in 2000 and finding himself in career transition amid the greatest population of courses in the country, he began embarking on weekly golf expeditions throughout the state in his Honda Civic.
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Janina Jacobs
Janina Parrott Jacobs is a multi-media consultant specializing in golf, business, music, nutrition, fitness and women’s issues. As a freelance writer, television host and producer, her writing appears in national international, regional, and local publications and her shows have aired regionally and locally.
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Matt Zaffino
I'm a weather guy. Yes, that means I do the weather on TV, but it also means I write about the weather and photograph the weather along with forecasting the weather. I'm the Chief Meteorologist for KGW TV in Portland, Oregon.
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Hal Phillips
Hal Phillips, spent seven years reporting for and editing daily newspapers in Massachusetts before joining the business journal Golf Course News as editor-in-chief in 1992. During his tenure he would oversee the launch of both Golf Course News Asia-Pacific and GCN International.
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Bob Cullen
Bob Cullen is the co-author, with Dr. Bob Rotella, of Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect and other best-selling works on the mental game. A former contributing editor at Travel & Leisure Golf, he has reported on courses from datelines as diverse as Slovenia, Kazakhstan, Russia and Iran.
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Brad King
Writer, editor and public relations specialist Brad King brings two decades of journalistic experience to the table. Since 2002, he has managed Brad King Communications Inc., a public relations team that utilizes media expertise to generate positive exposure and valuable publicity for its clients.
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John Torsiello
John Torsiello is a writer/editor living in Connecticut. He has written extensively about all aspects of the golf industry for a number of national and regional publications. He is Associate Editor for Golfing Magazine, Editor for Golfing Magazine New Jersey-Eastern Pa., Senior Editor for Fairway Living Magazine, and a regular contributor to Golf Course Industry, and Cybergolf.com.
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Michael Patrick Shiels
Travel Writer Michael Patrick Shiels has journeyed to more than 35 countries and countless tourist destinations studying travel industry methods and trends. At TravelTattler.com, he reveals tourism's successes...and failures. Shiels, a widely published author, has collaborated on titles with Larry King, Donald Trump, Emmy Award-winning golf commentator Ben Wright, golf architect Arthur Hills, and wrote a "For Dummies" book.
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Stephen Goodwin
Stephen Goodwin, the author of "Dream Golf: The Making of Bandon Dunes," was a contributing editor at Golf Magazine. He has written extensively about golf course design and golf history, and his articles and essays on golf have appeared in Golf, Links, The Met Golfer, Golf Connoisseur, The Washington Post, The United States Open Open Program, and The Masters Annual.
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Robert Fagan
Bob Fagan features one of the most interesting backgrounds in golf. Not only has Bob played more golf courses than any living person, he has been an accomplished player and instructor, innovative golf and life coach, PGA Section Executive Director, golf company executive, "Expert Golf Witness," and, of course, a highly acclaimed golf writer.
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Peter Andraes
Peter Andraes has fused golf with yogic, meditative, healing and martial arts – Golf Qi-Gong - since the age of 9. This author of The Secret of the Inner-Swing, and 2008 World Qi-Gong Sports Master of the Year, is a founding member of the P.G.A. of Asia.
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Anita Draycott
Anita Draycott has been a Toronto-based journalist, editor and photographer for more than 25 years. She is managing editor of GolfStyle, an upscale
lifestyle publication for avid golfers in Canada and editor of the Canadian Travel Guides. Her column, Fairways to Heaven, appears bi-monthly
in www.travelindustrytoday.com. A self-confessed golf addict, she has chased dimpled white balls over six continents.
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Christopher Smith
Christopher Smith is the PGA Lead Instructor at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club in North Plains, OR, and at the KOR Physical Therapy and Athletic Wellness Clinic in Beaverton, OR. His unique coaching and instruction concepts - blending cutting edge technology with experience, knowledge, and insight - have been featured in GolfWeek, Golf Digest, and The Wall Street Journal.
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