Sometimes you will have to pardon my late breaking news, recently I wondered why all the sudden I was receiving Golf Digest in the mail for the second time? Okay the last issue was nice to receive with Justin Timberlake showing his sexy bod on the cover, but really past looking at his interview I was kinda bored. This is a guy’s golfing mag - if I have to read one of those it will only be Golf Punk - which I totally love. I have tried to research reasons put forth by Condé Nast, but there’s just a flat boring excuse released to Reuters and such. With a rate-base of 600,00 and only 6 issues a year published don’t you think that the magazine was worth keeping around? Susan Reed ( GFW’s editor) accepted the position of Oprahs ‘O’ magazine as quoted in certain gossip sites, I presume that it made it easier for the Condé Nast to dump the magazine, pointing the blame to ‘the economy’. Hm-mm.

I can only hope Vogue puts a bit more effort into their sports reporting section, but I don’t think I will see tips from Annika . (I think she would be a great fit for that publication as guest writer)

‘Nancy Berkely‘ put forth the best thought relating to the surprise closure:
“Golf is an unusual sport since it cannot be played without passing through an admission gate. Unlike soccer or basketball, for instance, where you can just play at some community field, there is always a gate to pass through with golf. And the gatekeepers in this industry of over 16,000 courses in the U.S. are 99 percent male. The industry needs to fix that. There are many ways to find that fix”

Okay, I never like to get down & out on the whole ‘male domination vibe’ of the sport, but I think the closure of this magazine says to women: hey read a mans magazine that will bore you to death and to top it off there’s no fashion editorial. It gives me a great idea.. maybe there could be a Golf Punk for Women? I could always use a spread with a hot chap presenting the latest Big Bertha!

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