Ranking No. 5 in the Lettermakers of the Year Awards, based very roughly on Golf World's Newsmakers of the Year issue--terrific this year and very much worth your while--is Readers Editing Editors. If I really wanted to embarrass us, I'd publish here all corrections and errors you've caught us in--in which you've caught us?--but that would be boring and not in keeping with magazine tradition. However, here are three of the latest letters that remind us that you're reading every darn word and thinking about most of them.
Dear Editor,
Tim Rosaforte and I don't always agree, and neither do subject and verb in Rosaforte's sentences. In the Oct. 19 issue, Rosaforte writes that Greg Norman's wines were enjoyed "until cases of Couples & Company was shipped in." Ouch. Surely Rosaforte and I can agree that better proofreading is needed.
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Scott Hume
River Forest, IL
Is the answer "were shipped in" I got it right.
Dear Editor, Have only read through page 15 of the latest issue. On page 15, in the first column, "its" is used instead of "it's". Now you have two extra weeks this time to prepare the next issue, have someone who knows English usage proof it.Yours,
Ruth Wasserman
Carlsbad, CA
Ruth always was a tough grader. Just remember, it's not so easy when it's you who's having to decide whether it's his, hers or its modifier. Thanks, Ruth. Please proceed to page 16.
Dear Editor,
I find it curious that Golf World (and at least one other weekly golf rag) includes a column which analyzes and often critiques T.V. coverage of golf tournaments. Writers have a heck of a lot more reaction time than television announcers and commentators who must, literally, run across a golf course because the tournament's outcome was just altered by something like a an eagle from a non- front runner. Additionally, they have to entertain an audience during the interminable pre-shot routines of today's pros. How would GW like it if the Golf Channel devoted half an hour every week to the screw-ups of golf writers and editors?
Coleman Morgan
Dear sir. Rag? Surely you don't mean our magazines. At any rate, if Golf Channel devoted half an hour every week to our screw-ups, it would mean only one thing: Our readers would have nothing to do. What's more, we'd say to our Golf Channel critics what they probably say to us and what Kenneth Tynan said about criticism long ago: "A critic is someone who knows the way but can't drive the car."
BTW, for an example of someone who really knows how to drive, check out Jaime Diaz's review of 2009 in the Newsmakers issue.
--Bob Carney
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