Scoregolf
Encyclopedia
Magazine
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is a Canadian golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
publication, which started in 1981 as the program for the Canadian Open golf tournament. The magazine is now the largest circulation golf publication in Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
and has grown into other media
Mass media
Mass media refers collectively to all media technologies which are intended to reach a large audience via mass communication. Broadcast media transmit their information electronically and comprise of television, film and radio, movies, CDs, DVDs and some other gadgets like cameras or video consoles...
including television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
and radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
.
History
Scoregolf is published by Canadian Controlled Media Communications (CCMC), which was founded as the official publisher for the Toronto Blue JaysToronto Blue Jays
The Toronto Blue Jays are a professional baseball team located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Blue Jays are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball 's American League ....
Baseball Club.
The publication’s founders were Kim Locke and Charles Cipolla, with Locke serving as the publisher. The first editor was Lorne Rubenstein
Lorne Rubenstein
Lorne Rubenstein is a Canadian golf journalist and author. He writes columns for The Globe and Mail and was the first editor of Scoregolf magazine...
and the art director was Ron Bala.
At first, the magazine was first published four times a year and focused on Canadian golf with international content as well. The first edition of the magazine featured an interview with American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
golfer Tom Watson
Tom Watson (golfer)
Thomas Sturges Watson is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and now mostly on the Champions Tour....
.
By 1988, it grew to five times a year and in 1990 it published six times a year. Lorne Rubenstein
Lorne Rubenstein
Lorne Rubenstein is a Canadian golf journalist and author. He writes columns for The Globe and Mail and was the first editor of Scoregolf magazine...
(1981-1982) was succeeded at editor by Lisa Leighton (1983-86) and then John Gordon (1986-1991) who was followed by Bob Weeks (1992-present).
In 2000, the name changed from SCORE, Canada’s Golf Magazine to SCOREGolf. That reflected a growth in the company’s operations. By the mid-1990s, it had expanded to other media. The SCOREGolf company now includes interactive Golf website, Videos, radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
, television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
, and golf schools.
Radio
SCOREGolf Radio is a 90-second daily program that airs nationally in more than 50 markets across Canada. Weeks is the host and the topics range from interviews with top players, instructional tips and tournament previews.Television
Bob Weeks also hosts SCOREGolf TV, which is seen on TSNThe Sports Network
The Sports Network, commonly abbreviated as TSN, is a Canadian English language Category C specialty channel and is Canada's leading English language sports TV channel. TSN premiered in 1984, in the first group of Canadian specialty cable channels...
. The program airs weekly in the winter and fall and broadcasts monthly one-hour specials in the summer months.
SCOREGolf.com
Scoregolf.com is the brand’s websiteWebsite
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that features commentary from top writers such as Lorne Rubenstein
Lorne Rubenstein
Lorne Rubenstein is a Canadian golf journalist and author. He writes columns for The Globe and Mail and was the first editor of Scoregolf magazine...
and players like Ian Leggatt
Ian Leggatt
Ian Donald Leggatt is a Canadian professional golfer.Leggatt was born in Cambridge, Ontario. He has won one PGA Tour event and one Nationwide Tour event....
. It also offers the Canadian Golf Course
Golf course
A golf course comprises a series of holes, each consisting of a teeing ground, fairway, rough and other hazards, and a green with a flagstick and cup, all designed for the game of golf. A standard round of golf consists of playing 18 holes, thus most golf courses have this number of holes...
Guide, video
Video
Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...
instruction, travel and other golf-related information and services.