golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...
magazine and digital media outlet based in Orlando, Florida, United States. It is part of Gannett's
USA Today
''USA Today'' (stylized in all uppercase) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company. Founded by Al Neuharth on September 15, 1982, the newspaper operates from Gannett's corporate headquarters in Tysons, Virgi ...
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History and profile
The magazine was founded in 1975 by Charley Stine and was originally named ''Florida Golfweek Magazine''. His son Tom Stine was editor of the magazine from 1980 to 1994. Stine sold the publication to Turnstile Publishing Company, based in Orlando, Florida, in 1990 and it became the flagship publication out of the five magazines it published. The magazine is particularly adept in its coverage of the "Best Golf Courses" in the United States by state and are often used by websites on many golf courses and resorts around the US as being on the ''Golfweek'' list. As of 2002, Eric Beckson was the president of Turnstile Publishing.
The magazine also publishes specific annual publications such as ''Golfweek's Best'', a Guide to America's Best Classic and Modern Golf Courses and ''Golfweek's Ultimate Guide To Golf Course Living and Great Escapes''.
Numerous experts are employed to write columns for the magazine, some of which also write or have written for '' Golf Digest'' etc. In, 2016, Golfweek was purchased by
Gannett Company, Inc.
Gannett Co., Inc. () is an American mass media holding company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.Gannett makes a sports magazine acquisition October 5, 2016. Retrieved January 14, 2017. The magazine switched from the original weekly format to a monthly format in January 2017.
Week
A week is a unit of time equal to seven days. It is the standard time period used for short cycles of days in most parts of the world. The days are often used to indicate common work days and rest days, as well as days of worship. Weeks are of ...