Lorne Rubenstein
Lorne Rubenstein has written a golf column for The Globe and Mail since 1980. He has played golf since the early 1960s and was the Royal Canadian Golf Association’s first curator of its museum and library at the Glen Abbey Golf Club in Oakville, Ontario and the first editor of Score, Canada’s Golf Magazine. Lorne writes for publications around the world, and hosts the TSN weekly show Acura World of Golf. He contributes a bi-weekly column to www.50Plus.com and writes a column for SCORE Golf Magazine.
Born in Toronto, Lorne studied at York University and the University of Guelph, where he completed an M.A. in psychology. He caddied part-time on the PGA Tour, and his first columns for The Globe and Mail were from the 1980 Canadian Open at Royal Montreal Golf Club. He caddied there for the Canadian golfer Jim Nelford.
Lorne has written for magazines such as Toronto Life, Report on Business, Maclean’s, Saturday Night, City Woman, Esquire, Golf Digest, Golf Magazine, Golf Monthly (U.K.) Score, Travel & Leisure Golf, Cigar Aficionado, Links, Senior Golfer and Golf Journal. He has won three first-place awards from the Golf Writers Association of America—one for newspaper columns, one for magazine features and one for magazine columns--and one National Magazine Award in Canada.
Lorne has written seven books: Seasons in a Golfer’s Life, with Jim Nelford (1984); The Natural Golf Swing, with George Knudson (1988); Links: An Insider’s Tour Through the World of Golf (1990); Touring Prose, Writings on Golf (1993); The Swing, with Nick Price (1997); The Fundamentals of Hogan, with David Leadbetter (2000), and A Season in Dornoch: Golf and Life in the Scottish Highlands, to be published in fall 2001).
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