The A Position

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. Read More

Chris Santella

http://ChrisSantella.net/

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. Read More

John Strawn

http://JohnStrawn.com/

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. Read More

Larry Olmsted

http://LarryGolfsTheWorld.com

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. Read More

David Gould

http://DavidGouldGolf.com

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. Read More

Brian McCallen

http://BrianMcCallen.com

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). Read More

Scott Kauffman

http://GolfCourseBusiness.com

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. Read More

Tom Harack

http://TomHarack.com

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. Read More

Bob Senoff

http://GettingUnder90.com

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. Read More

James A. Frank

http://jimgolfrank.com

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. Read More

Tim O'Connor

http://timoconnor.ca/

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. Read More

Chris Duthie

http://chrisduthie.com/

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 Read More

Tom Bedell

http://tombedell.com/

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. Read More

Casey Alexander

http://caseyalexandergolf.com/

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. Read More

Jason Kerkmans

http://jasonkerkmans.com/

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. Read More

Timothy Nolan

http://tgpnolan.com/

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. Read More

Jeff Ritter

http://rittergolf.com/

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. Read More

David Barrett

http://davidhbarrett.com

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. Read More

Derek Duncan

http://theduncanlist.com

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. Read More

Janina Jacobs

http://janinajacobs.com

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. Read More

Matt Zaffino

http://mattzaffino.com

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. Read More

Hal Phillips

http://halphillips.net/

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. Read More

Bob Cullen

http://bobcullengolf.com/

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. Read More

Brad King

http://bradkingwrites.com/

Sportswriter and former LINKS Magazine senior editor Brad King founded Brad King Communications in 2002. The longtime golf columnist for Hilton Head’s Island Packet newspaper now resides in North Carolina where he freelances for many golf, lifestyle and business publications, has edited and contributed to several book projects, and helped produce award-winning editorial coverage of the 2005 U.S. Open and the 2007 U.S. Women’s Open for the Southern Pines Pilot. Read More

John Torsiello

http://torsmangolf.com/

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. Read More

Michael Patrick Shiels

http://traveltattler.com/

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. Read More

Stephen Goodwin

http://stephenhardygoodwin.com/

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. Read More

Robert Fagan

http://robertfagan.com/

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. Read More

Peter Andraes

http://peterandraes.com/

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. Read More

Anita Draycott

http://anitadraycott.com/

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. Read More

Christopher Smith

http://christophercsmithgolf.com/

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. Read More

Terry Moore

http://teemoore.com/

A member of the Golf Writers Association of America, Terry Moore was editor of Michigan Golfer for 18 years and is now a regular columnist and travel writer for it and several other golf websites. He also founded the West Michigan Golf Show, now in its 23rd year. Moore currently serves as a Governor for the Golf Association of Michigan. Read More

Jay Stuller

http://jaystuller.com/

Jay has successfully straddled the worlds of mainstream journalism and corporate communication for three decades. The author of ten books and nearly a thousand magazine articles in more than 125 publications - - including features in Audubon, Smithsonian, Playboy, Outside, Travel & Leisure, Oceans, Senior Golfer and Reader’s Digest - - he simultaneously managed a career in corporate public affairs, primarily with Chevron. Read More

Tim Moraghan

http://www.aspire-golf.com/

For more than 30 years, Tim Moraghan’s talents and work ethic have brought a wealth of benefits to the golf industry. From grounds crew to construction of new courses to golf course superintendent, Moraghan’s experience encompasses a wide range of talents and expertise in the golf arena, topped by his tenure as Director of Championship Agronomy for the United States Golf Association (USGA), a position he held for more than two decades. Read More

David Whyte

http://go-golf.tv/

David J Whyte is one of Scotland's most prolific golf travel writers & golf landscape photographers. In spite of coming from a family of golfers, David in his younger day 'just didn't get golf' and concentrated his interests in travelling, writing and photography. By the late 1980's he had established his own publishing company specialising in Scottish calendars, postcards and guide books. Read More

Herb Gould

http://herbgould.com/

Herb Gould has covered a variety of sports at the Chicago Sun-Times for more than 25 years. The paper’s senior college sportswriter, he writes about golf, auto racing and travel as well as NCAA football and basketball. He wrote a book about Notre Dame’s 1988 national championship, and has covered golf’s majors from Augusta to Pebble Beach. Read More

Peter Kessler

http://peterkessler.com/

Peter Kessler is known as the “Voice of Golf”. Peter was the voice of HBO Sports and narrated Peabody, Ace and Emmy award-winning documentaries. For eight consecutive years, from The Golf Channel's inception, Peter wrote, hosted and produced over 1,300 one-hour live programs. Credited by Golf Channel co-founder Arnold Palmer as the other man, in addition to co-founder Joe Gibbs, as being responsible for its success. Read More

Jeff Neuman

http://neumanprose.com/

Jeff Neuman is co-author of A Disorderly Compendium of Golf (with Lorne Rubenstein) and Just Hit It (with Frank Thomas). He has written for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Links, and Private Clubs, and his sports columns appear at RealClearSports.com on Mondays and Thursdays. Read More

James McAfee

http://jamesamcafee.com/

James McAfee is a freelance golf and travel writer based in Wylie, TX, who has extensive experience both as a writer and editor plus as a golf administrator. He worked for various newspapers in Texas and Oklahoma early in his career before becoming an editor with Golf Shop Operations and Golf Digest in the 1970s. Read More

Ken Van Vechten

http://kenvanvechten.com/

A former newspaper reporter, columnist, political hack and corporate flack, golf, travel and lifestyle writer Ken Van Vechten thought the life of a freelancer would free him of the horrid memories of time-clock employment and doing the bidding of others. He hadn’t contemplated editors. A Jell-O-solid 13.6 on the course, he plays to a +6 at the table, in the kitchen and on the massage table. Read More

Ed Sherman

http://edshermangolf.com/

Ed Sherman was the long-time golf writer for the Chicago Tribune. Recognized with several national golf writing awards, he now writes about golf and sports business for Crain's Chicago Business. He also is the co-host of "The Scorecard," a Saturday morning golf talk show on WSCR-AM 670. His latest book, "Golf Lists Mania," co-written with Leonard Shapiro, will be out this spring. Read More

Edwin Roald

http://thegolfstream.com/

Edwin is a golf course designer and writer whose independent design work now spans a decade and half-a-dozen countries. An avid golf historian, Edwin has devoted his entire education and career to golf, and has recently campaigned a departure from the eighteen-hole tradition, hoping to help revitalize participation in golf. Read More

Henebry Photography

http://henebry.theoutwardnine.com/

Premier golf photographers, John and Jeannine Henebry have been specializing in golf course photography for over 25 years. A brother-sister team, they have traveled the world photographing some of the world’s best and most beautiful golf courses designed by many of golf’s most notable course architects and designers. John and Jeannine’s work frequently appears in major golf magazines along with many other consumer and trade publications. Read More

Jamie McWilliams

http://jamiemcwilliams.com/

Jamie comes with a rich background in television production: on-air talent, award winning producer-director-writer for NFL Films, network broadcasting and Fortune 500 corporations, Jamie now puts much of his creative efforts in golf programming. Jamie provides provocative, witty commentary and features on all things golf, including equipment, events and travel. Read More

Roberto Borgatti

http://robertoborgatti.com/

World-renowned Golf Instructor Roberto Borgatti returns for his fifth season at the Longboat Key Club & Resort. Roberto conducts golf clinics for all levels of players, and seminars for teaching professionals around the world. Roberto’s comprehensive approach combines a clear methodology, golf fitness & performance training and state-of-the-art V1 Professional video swing-analysis. Read More

David DeSmith

http://daviddesmith.com/

David DeSmith is a New England-based writer and marketing professional who did bloody battle in the advertising industry for several decades before escaping to focus on golf and launching two regional golf magazines, Golf of Maine in 1998 and the New England Journal of Golf in 2001. David served as publisher and editor of both publications, while also writing feature articles on topics ranging from golf travel and course design to the people who play the game and the equipment they use. Read More

Evelyn Gruber

http://evelyngruber.com/

Evelyn Gruber, an Austrian native, has 20+ years of experience in the golf travel field both as a golf travel writer and a golf tour operator. As part of her duties as the owner of Austria’s largest Golf Travel Agency, she traveled the globe experiencing and rating golf destinations for her upscale golfing clientele. Gruber is most likely one of the best traveled living golfers in Europe, having played more than 2000 courses in 50+ countries in Europe, Australia, North America, Africa and Asia, including most of Golf Digest´s Top 100 Ballot Courses outside the US and Rolex 1000 Ballot Courses worldwide. Read More

James Mason

http://planetgolfreview.co.uk/

James Mason is a contributing writer for Golf Monthly magazine, producing destination reviews, technical and equipment reviews and blogs. He was also part of the judging panel for the 2010 Top 100 courses in Great Britain and Ireland. James has written equipment reviews and technical features for Greenside magazine, destination features for Golf World and Going for Golf magazines and interviews for Middle East Golfer. He was captain of his university golf team and now play off a 5 handicap. Read More

Anthony Pioppi

http://anthonypioppi.com/

Anthony Pioppi is the author of “To the Nines,” and “The History of The Minikahda Club Golf Course,” that is scheduled to be published in 2012 and coauthor of “Haunted Golf.” Pioppi has written for magazines including Golf Course Architecture, Golfdom, Links, GolfPunk and GolfWeek. The Executive Director of the Seth Raynor Society, Pioppi is an overseas member of the St. Andrews Golf Club, Scotland. His home layout is the municipally-run Hunter Golf Course in Meriden, Conn. Read More

Dennis Silvers

http://dennisluvs2golf.com/

Dennis Silvers is an award-winning nationally syndicated radio/television talk show host. One of his radio programs, "The 19th Hole," is America's longest running golf talk radio program in America. His shows can be heard on Fox Sports Radio 920, ESPN Radio 1100 and CBS Sports Radio 100.5 fm/840 am in Las Vegas. His short feature, "The Golf Minute" is syndicated throughout the country and is also aired over American Forces Network throughout the world. Read More

Susan Bairley

http://susanbairley.com/

Susan Bairley has been writing about golf – especially women’s golf – since 1989, mostly as contributing editor to Michigan Golfer magazine, where she also was editor of two Michigan Woman Golfer editions and started an early website for women golfers. She chaired the first statewide women’s golf summit in the U.S., ran her own golf and real estate PR firm and still works as an executive PR consultant to business, industry and organizations. Read More

Emily Kay

http://emilykaygolf.com/

Never one to miss a golfing opportunity, Emily keeps her clubs in her car all year despite living in Massachusetts where the golf season is woefully short. An 11-ish handicapper who knows if she just keeps practicing she’ll break par, Emily is a member of the Golf Writers Association of America, a regular contributor to New England Golf Monthly, and staff writer for Waggle Room,Boston Golf Examiner, National Golf Examiner, and GottaGoGolf. You may follow Emily on Twitter. Read More

Gabe Garcia

http://gabegarciagolf.com/

Gabe is a golf writer and attorney living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2011, he began the Golf Law Journal, an online chronicle of legal issues affecting the game of golf. He writes frequent golf course reviews and produces a series of videos entitled, Top 3 Things. Gabe is also an active member of the San Francisco Public Golf Alliance. Read More

Dodie Mazzuca

http://golfproformance.com/

Dodie Mazzuca is a former LPGA Tour Player and the founder of Golf PROformance. She was an NCAA Academic and Athletic All-American at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. Her background in golf fitness, yoga, technical training and understanding the demons, assists her students in accelerating their learning process. Dodie currently teaches golf, golf fitness and yoga in Scottsdale, AZ and Santa Cruz, CA. Read More