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Tom was 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 serving as Saigon bureau chief for Mandarin Media, a media relations firm in Southeast Asia and the United States. He passed away in November, 2025. As a founding member of The A Position–indeed, he named it–we’re keeping his site active for now.<\/p>\n

Harack\u2019s golf-writing career was launched with a feature about Scotland\u2019s \u201choly land of golf\u201d in the travel section of The New York Times. His work subsequently appeared in all the major golf print media \u2013 including Golf Digest, GOLF Magazine, T&L Golf, and LINKS \u2013 and dozens of consumer publications, among them Forbes Life, Men\u2019s Journal, Fast Company, The Wall Street Journal, and Playboy.<\/p>\n

Golf-destination assignments took him to Australia and New Zealand, the Caribbean, Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Canada, Hawaii, Mexico, Costa Rica, Vietnam, Thailand, and countless stops in the continental U.S. Harack\u2019s photographs often accompanied his articles and those of other writers.<\/p>\n

Harack also co-founded The Critical Faculty, a media\/marketing and consulting firm specializing in the golf, resort, and travel industries.<\/p>\n

In addition to his editorial work, Harack represented new and existing golf courses, golf-course architects, and golf instructors, and wrote yardage guides, press releases, and other collateral literature. His corporate clients included such publishing and media organizations as McGraw-Hill, Straight Arrow, Cahners, Gralla, Times Mirror, National Geographic, Agence France-Press, Knight Ridder, East\/West, Bloomberg Business News, RHI Entertainment, Travel Media Corp. and CMP.<\/p>\n

Writing was been a constant in Harack\u2019s life, but prior to specializing in golf, he wrote extensively about architecture, engineering, and construction. His work appeared in such prominent industry magazines as Architectural Record, Progressive Architecture, Corporate Design, Engineering News-Record, and Building Design & Construction, where he once served as associate editor.<\/p>\n

Along the way, Harack also showed a willingness to take on topics difficult to characterize, for example, how to walk over a bed of hot coals (The Village Voice).<\/p>\n

He held a bachelor\u2019s degree in philosophy from Cornell University and a master\u2019s degree from Northwestern University\u2019s Medill School of Journalism. A native Chicagoan, when not traveling he split his time between Old Chatham, New York, and New York City, where his wife, Mercedes, taught bi-lingual special education in the Bronx.<\/p>\n

A survivor of the New York City Marathon, where he shattered the five-hour mark, Harack was once a ranked A squash player in the city. He’ll be greatly missed by his many friends and family.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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