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. Read More

John Strawn

John is the President of Hills and Forrest, International Golf Course Architects, and the former CEO of Robert Trent Jones II. He is a regular monthly columnist for Golf Magazine China, and the 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. He also writes book reviews which appear in The Oregonian and other publications. Read More

Scott Kauffman

Scott is an award-winning Career Journalist and Full-Service Real Estate Broker, specializing in global golf course business, golf and private club homes and active-adult/resort-style real estate worldwide. The Orlando-based journalist is a former Staff Writer for the Honolulu Advertiser/Star-Bulletin newspapers, USA Today, Orlando Sentinel, and Senior Business Writer for Golfweek Group. Meanwhile, the University of Hawaii graduate serves as Vice-President for the Asian Real Estate Association of American/Greater Orlando chapter and features nearly $100 million in closed residential and commercial property sales since 2016. Read More

Tom Harack

Tom is one of the most widely traveled golf writers in the world, with innumerable published articles and photographs to his credit, as well as experience in promoting various golf-industry products and personnel, including a stint as Saigon bureau chief for Mandarin Media, a media relations firm in Southeast Asia and the United States. Read More

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. Read More

Contributing Editors

Tom Bedell

Tom has written about golf and golf travel for American Airlines’ luxury magazine Celebrated Living since 1999, and for Travel & Leisure Golf, Golf Connoisseur, Virtuoso Life, Lexus Magazine, Acura Style, Tee It Up, American Way, The Met Golfer and many others. Before his first golf article, Tom had established his chops as a beer expert; as far as he knows he remains the only member of both the Golf Writers Association of America and the North American Guild of Beer Writers. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

Peter Andraes

Peter Andraes has fused golf with yogic, meditative, healing and martial arts – Golf Qi-Gong -- since age 9. This author of Ye Ming Zhu: Past, Present, and Future, and The Secret of the Inner-Swing, was honored in 2008 as World Qi-Gong Sports Master of the Year. Read More

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. Read More

Bob Fagan

Bob Fagan features one of the most interesting backgrounds in travel and golf. Not only it is likely that Bob has played more American golf courses than any living person, he has been an accomplished player and instructor, holds a Ph.D. in Counseling, a Doctor of Divinity, and has been an innovative golf and life coach, PGA Section Executive Director, golf company executive, "Expert Golf Witness," and, of course, a highly acclaimed travel and golf writer. Read More

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.org, 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

Terry Moore

A member of the Golf Writers Association of America, Terry Moore was the founding editor of Michigan Golfer for 18 years and is now a regular columnist and travel writer for it and several other golf websites. His next Masters will be his 40th as a credentialed golf writer. A member of the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame and founder of the West Mich. Golf Show, Moore serves as a Governor for the Golf Association of Michigan and Chair of the Communication Committee. He's also a past co-chair and current member of the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame Committee. Contact him at [email protected] Read More

Jay Stuller

Jay has successfully straddled the worlds of mainstream journalism and corporate communication for three decades. The author of ten books and more than a thousand magazine and newspaper features in more than 150 publications - - including articles 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

David J Whyte

Based in the Home of Golf, David J Whyte is a video producer, writer & photographer specializing in golf travel. His golf destination videos appear on airlines around the world in 'Golf Passport', a 30-minute programme exploring the best places to stay and play. Read More

Herb Gould

Herb Gould's historical novel, `The Run Don't Count: The Life and Times of Frank Chance and His 1908 Chicago Cubs,' was published recently. A longtime Chicago Sun-Times sportswriter, Herb is a co-founder of TMGcollegesports.com, an in-depth and off-beat national college football website, along with Chris Dufresne (LA Times), Mark Blaudschun (Boston Globe) and Tony Barnhart (Atlanta Journal-Constitution). He remains a contributor of golf and college-sports commentary at the Sun-Times. Herb also is the author of Victory March, an account of Notre Dame’s 1988 national championship, and has written for many sports outlets, including ESPN.com, Lindy’s football and basketball annuals, Chicagoland Golf and other golf publications. Read More

James McAfee

James McAfee is a freelance writer now living in Plano, TX after recently retiring as the editor of the Knox County News-Courier for eight years, He is currently writing for www.gettingontravel.com, Divot Magazine in Colorado, Hometown Living as well as this site. He had worked previously for newspapers in Texas and Oklahoma for 30 years as sports writer and sports editor. He was an editor of Golf Shop Operations and Golf Digest in the 1970s. He then served as the executive director of the Northern Texas PGA and the Dallas District Golf Association for 24 years, In addition, he spent three years in Costa Rica as director of golf and marketing at Playa Conchal. Read More

Roberto Borgatti

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

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. He also occasionally writes about music, if the spirit moves him. Read More

Evelyn Gruber

Evelyn has passionately dedicated her life to serve the global golf tourism industry. She has accumulated a wealth of knowledge and built an amazing global network within this vertical in the past 26 years. The Austrian native founded her first golf travel business in the mid 90's. By implementing an innovative shop-in-shop concept with Europe´s leading golf store, Evelyn was able to grow her business into Austria´s largest golf tour operator before selling it in 2008. Since then, this passionate visionary has continued to work in golf tourism, albeit more on the consulting and coaching side to assist public and private tourism sectors succeed in the lucrative golf niche. This niche is the most profitable one as golfers spend 2.5. times as much as leisure tourists. In addition, it trumps with strong ancillary benefits and has proven to be the most resilient and sustainable vertical in crisis. On top of everything else, numbers of golfers - including youth golf - have been increasing significantly during the current pandemic. As a truly global citizen, Evelyn calls Europe, the US and Asia her home, as she has been commuting between these three continents for the past 15 years. This has helped her tremendously to develop a unique global understanding of the geopolitical business dynamics as well as the macro and micro-environment in the various markets, which she applies effectively when boosting international tourist arrivals & tourism spending for destinations. The Austrian is most likely one of the best traveled living golfers in Europe, having played more than 2000 courses in 89 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. Considered a leading expert in her field, Evelyn has also stayed in 1000s of hotels, and worked successfully with both private & public sector in global golf tourism. She understands the USP and value propositions of destinations and knows how to smartly communicate those to the most valuable target audiences in select key markets. Evelyn has a Masters degree in Sports Management, English & Business Administration and holds two diplomas for International Marketing from Harvard Business School. She still dedicates 3 hours a day to grow her skill-set and raise her standards. A strong background combined with expertise & connectivity is fundamental for success. It is, however, Evelyn´s dedication & passion that make her approach unrivaled. You will quickly notice that Golf Tourism is in her blood! Read More

James Mason

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. Read More

Anthony Pioppi

Anthony Pioppi is the author of "The Finest Nines, North America's Best Nine-Hole Golf Courses, “To the Nines,” “The History of The Minikahda Club Golf Course,” "Shoreacres, The First 100 Years, 1916-2016" and coauthor of “Haunted Golf.” Host of the Renovation Report podcast on Turfnet.com, Pioppi written for publications including the USGA website, Golf Course Architecture, Superintendent magazine, Links, GolfPunk, the Chicago Tribune and Golfweek. The Executive Director of the Seth Raynor Society, Pioppi is an overseas member of the St. Andrews Golf Club, Scotland. Read More

Ed Travis

Ed Travis is a national award winning golf journalist and has had a life long love affair with the game. He has competed in tournament golf both as an amateur and as a senior professional and though his competitive days are behind him he still plays regularly and carries a handicap of 4. He and his wife live in suburban Orlando. Read More

Matthew Van Fossen

Born in Oakland. Instant street cred. Moved to Concord, CA when I was 1. Working class cred. Moved to Walnut Creek, CA when I was 8. Suburban outdoor mall cred. And muni golf cred! Eventually got into finance and (several life events skipped over here) started writing a golf blog. https://norcalgolfcoursereviews.wordpress.com Read More