Career Writing Golf Books
John Andrisani is a former senior editor of instruction at Golf Magazine. A respected golf instructor, Andrisani is also the author of over forty books, including the bestselling The Tiger Woods…
Scotlands Fierce Competitor
Scotland Map
MONTY GOES MARCHING ON I’m thrilled for Colin Montgomerie, maybe the best player never to win a Masters Tournament, U.S. Open, British Open, or PGA, golf four major championships. Colin…
Picking Out The Right Spot
The Art of Picking and Hitting A Spot
SPOT-ON As the instruction editor for GOLF Magazine, during 1982 and 1983, senior instruction editor (1984-1998), and consulting editor, in 1999, writing articles with top PGA Tour pros and top…
Practice Makes Perfect!
Bigger Tent Is Needed!
WE’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER TENT! By John Andrisani, co-author of the bestselling book, The Four Cornerstones of Winning Golf, written with Claude “Butch” Harmon When first meeting Claude “Butch”…
Unusual Golf Hobby
Secrets of A Bird Watching Golfer
A LITTLE BIRDIE TOLD ME When anyone, say someone I meet in a sports-bar, finds out about my long stint working as senior editor of instruction at GOLF Magazine, they…
Still Relevent
Still One of the best shot maker books ever written
GOLF’S SUPER-TEACHER WHO HELP CHANGE GOLF HISTORY Working in the golf business almost all my life, PGA TOUR pros, Champions’ Tour players, and LPGA women pro-golfers have shared many intimate…
Memories … LPGA Pathfinder
Memories Of LPGA Photo Shoot
From A Fan of Jan’s, Forever! The bonus of being senior editor of GOLF Magazine, from 1984-1998, is that I got to meet and work on articles with the world’s…
A New Exciting? CBS Lineup?
Exciting Changes? In Golf Anouncing?
LOVE IT OR Leave It! I choose to LEAVE IT! Why? The last guy I would have thought would take the place of the exiting golf analysts of CBS, the…
Unfair Penalties?
Is there any justice on the golf course?
A DAY GOLF PRO, MARCEL SIEM, “PREFERS” TO FORG (as does LPGA senior pro, Lee Ann Walker) I just heard a tragic…
Memories Of The Walrus
Andrisani Memories Writing I am The Walrus with Craig Stadler
YOU DON’T WANT TO TOP THIS! One of the most fun experiences in the sixty years I’ve been around golf, was working with PGA Tour player and 1982 Masters Tournament…
Beware Of Penalty Police!
Official keeping and eye out for violations
RULES of GOLF NIGHTMARE - The Rules of Golf, laid down in an official book published by the United States Golf Association, are supposedly there to help the golfer.…
New Book – Enjoy Golf !
Simply Enjoying A Round Of Golf
FUTURISTIC FORECASTS – How long golf can be enjoyed by millions will depend on the environmental work forward by Millennial and Post-Millennial Golfers - At 70 years of age,…
Most Incredible Golfing Feat
Well hit golf ball about to go into hole
Great and Greatest Hole-in-One Moments At age 15, on the Par-3 ninth hole of the Tall Tree Country Club course in Rocky Point, Long Island, I hit a six-iron…
An Extra Club In Your Bag!
Visualizing The Perfect Golf Shot
THE FIFTHTEENTH CLUB When working with premier golf instructor, Jim Hardy, ranked by both Golf and Golf Digest magazines, he made the following profound statement, for the benefit of…
Golf Equality For Women?
Blasting Out Of A Sand Trap!
TIME TO BUILD BESPOKE WOMEN’S GOLF COURSES I’m not young enough to have witnessed two of the greatest women swingers of a golf club, American, Glenna Collett Vare and…
Golf Balls… Revisited?
Getting ready to hit the ball
MAKE AMATEUR GOLF FUN AGAIN Amateur golfers in England, who could, once upon a time, purchase in every pro-shop what has been called the small British ball, enjoyed the…
Drunk Driver?
Checking Carts and Drivers?
CALL FOR ON-COURSE PROOF/BREATHALYZER CHECK In the grocery check-out aisle the other day, a man in front of me who I guessed was around 70 years old, was paying…
Talking Too Much?
GET REAL RORY! Rory Mcllroy is, without question, the most talented Super-Golfer today, yet I question what’s going on in that area between the ears, where the great Bobby…
Fearsome Foresome
Your Choice Of A Fearsome Foresome
FAB FOUR One rainy day, when a member of Sara Bay Country Club, in Sarasota, Florida, between drinks and a long game of Liar’s Poker, played as you might…
PGA Dillydally Ruining Game
Waiting Too Long
SLOW PLAY SOLUTION One of the biggest problems facing golf courses today, namely because it continues to cause losses in revenue due to fewer green fees collected from golfers,…
Halloween Remembered!
Haunted Memories Of Halloween Past!
GHOULISH GOLF... Now, with Halloween fast approaching, I’d like to share with you a money-game invented by the editor of GOLF Magazine, in 1983; a year after I was…
Who Is The Best?
George Gankas Photo Credit BRINSON + BANKS
George Gankas: Golf’s # 1 Instructor? During my tenure at GOLF Magazine, as senior editor of instruction from 1984-1998, I was involved in selecting the 50 Best Teachers in America…
Out Of Bounds… For Sure!
LIVING THE LINKS – Good or Bad Idea for Golf Lovers? I read a story recently, on-line, by Alex Myers, about a Pennsylvania man pulling a gun on an…
Andrisani Memories
Working in the Shadows of many GOLF GREATS! On this website, at the center of many of my blogs, are stories from my life in golf; Memoirs. Naturally, most…
Simply Unbelievable
Dreaming Of A Hole In One? Think Twice!
AUTO-PILOT PUTTING One of the biggest influences on my writing golf-orientated humorous short stories, was the television show I watched off-and-on, during the five decades it ran, staring in…
The Right Balance
Balancing stones
GET TRIM TO WIN, NOT ALL GET BULKED UP, LIKE “ROCKY” In 1984, when I became senior editor of instruction at GOLF Magazine, Gary Player, Seve Ballesteros, and Chi Chi…
Walter Hagan
LESSONS FROM “THE HAIG” – One of Golf’s Greatest Putters In my many discussions with Seve Ballesteros, in preparation for the book we collaborated on, Natural Golf – on the…
Herbert Bertram Strong … Who?
NAME RECOGNITION, AT LAST! I had just heard the story of an African-American woman, Katherine G. Johnson, an aeronautical engineer and mathematical genius, who finally got the recognition and high-echelon…
Jack’s Back !
Jack's "the golden bear" Back
The Bear has come out of Hibernation “Oops, I did it again!” – the lyrics of Britney Spears sure suited the golf game of Jack Nicklaus, once again, as they…
John Daly II
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Working with John Daly on the book – Grip It & Rip It! – was truly an experience I have not forgotten, for three reasons: I…
