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As far as he knows, award-winning writer Tom Bedell is the only member of both the Golf Writers Association of America and the North American Guild of Beer Writers.\u00a0 And he\u2019ll drink to that, as he is wont to do regarding most things.<\/p>\n
Tom has written about golf and golf travel for American Airlines\u2019 luxury magazine Celebrated Living<\/em> since 1999, and has contributed to Travel & Leisure Golf<\/em>, Golf Connoisseur<\/em>, Virtuoso Life<\/em>, Lexus Magazine<\/em>, Acura Style<\/em>, Troon Golf & Travel,<\/em>\u00a0American Way<\/em>, The Met Golfer<\/em> and many others.\u00a0 He was a contributing editor for America’s Top Golf Courses, Sixth Edition<\/span> (Zagat, 2010), and writes a regular column for the weekly The Commons <\/em>newspaper in southern Vermont, where he lives and plays out of the Brattleboro Country Club as mid-handicapper.<\/p>\n But before he began writing about golf, Tom had established his chops as a beer expert. A certified beer judge, Tom won two first place Quill and Tankard awards for his writing from the North American Guild of Beer Writers, and was a contributing editor to The Encyclopedia of Beer<\/span> (Owl Books, 1997; Henry Holt, 1995). He continues to preside over beer tastings, formal and informal, at the merest request, and also writes regular beer columns for The Commons. <\/em><\/p>\n Tom began his writing life as a generalist, writing on anything and just about everything. Now closing in on the 1,000 mark in total articles, interviews, essays and reviews in over 100 different publications, from Reader\u2019s Digest<\/em> to Billiards Digest<\/em>, Men\u2019s Health<\/em> to Cosmopolitan<\/em>, he has also published poetry in a variety of literary magazines.<\/p>\n