Lorne Rubenstein

Lorne Rubenstein has written a golf column for The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper, since 1980. He 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 Acura World of Golf on The Sports Network in Canada; the show appears 26 weeks a year. He contributes a monthly column to Report on Business Magazine and writes a column for ScoreGolf 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 Canadian golfer Jim Nelford.

Lorne has written for magazines such as Toronto Life, Maclean's, Saturday Night, City Woman, Esquire, Golf Digest, Golf Magazine, Senior Golfer, Golf Monthly (U.K.), Golf World, Travel & Leisure Golf, Cigar Aficionado, Golf Journal, and Links. He has won four first-place awards from the Golf Writers Association of America and one National Magazine Award in Canada.

Lorne has written eight 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), A Season in Dornoch: Golf and Life in the Scottish Highlands, (2001), and Mike Weir: The Road to the Masters (2003).

-GolfObserver editors

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