Your tips or our tips?: Editors' Blog: Golf Digest

Your tips or our tips?

Tuesday, August 3, 2010 Comments

Every day we get your critiques, advanced proofreading (some of you are very good at this), corrections and story suggestions. Here's an interesting one from a Virginia reader. I'd like to suggest a feature--and I'll be your guinea pig to try it out. The feature could be "Tips I've Found Helpful," written by amateurs who submit them. It could be made more interesting by having a teaching pro, or even one teaching pro and one tour pro write a blurb about what he or she thinks of the tip.

Patrick Dennis, Centreville, VA

Patrick, as an old instruction editor, I love this idea. At Golf Digest, we're always trying to present tips that really work--check out our Guaranteed Issue in June--and your idea is a way of getting at those. We once devoted a cover to "best tips from our readers." and Truth be told, it was one of our poorest selling covers ever. Why? Because as much as readers love to tell us about their favorite tips, they look to us to use tour pros and top teachers to find those tips. They trust the experts. Which is why I like your addition of a tour pro or teaching pro comment about each of the reader tips submitted. We'll definitely consider it. In the meantime, readers ought to keep track of their favorite tips and refer to them when their game goes south. It's something those top teaching pros recommend.

--Bob Carney