Lorne Rubenstein to receive well deserved PGA Lifetime award..

Like so many of us in the golf media, Lorne Rubenstein is not only a friend but someone we look up to with tremendous respect.

It was no surprise to me when the announcement came yesterday that he will receive the PGA Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism. He has spent 33 years as a golf columnist while writing 14 books and contributing to magazines around the world

I've known Lorne for 30 years, he has contributed mightily in my career both on my Fairways Golf Show, or whenever and wherever asked. Lorne has always had the ability to choose a topic and pursue it with a combination of good old common sense, solid research, humour and the innate ability to entertain while being informative.

He has been approached and trusted to write books for top pros like Nick Price, as well as legends like Jack and Tiger. His biography on Canada's eccentric Moe Norman is riveting reading as is his collaboration with Mike Weir on his 2003 Masters win.

A native of Toronto, he will be honored on April 4 at the ISPS HANDA 46th Golf Writers Association of America (GWAA) Annual Awards Dinner at Savannah Rapids Pavilion in Augusta, Georgia.

Rube began playing golf at 12 while continuing to compete in hockey, football and baseball. A graduate of York University in Toronto in 1970, Rubenstein earned an M.A. in psychology from the University of Guelph (1974). He worked as part-time curator-librarian for the Royal Canadian Golf Association (RCGA, now Golf Canada), while pursuing a doctoral degree in psychology. He withdrew to focus on writing about golf. In 1980, Rubenstein became the first editor of SCOREGolf Magazine and a weekly columnist for The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper.

He is a four-time award-winner for magazine features/newspaper columns in the Golf Writers Association of America (1988, ’93, ’94, and 2003); won the 1985 Canada National Magazine Award; and has three first-place awards from the Golf Journalists Association of Canada (2009, ’16, and ’17). He was inducted into the Ontario Golf Hall of Fame (2006), the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame (2007), and is a recipient of Sports Media Canada’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2009) and the PGA of Canada’s Distinguished Service Award (2013).

I think Lorne and I became closest after he spent a summer in Scotland at Royal Dornoch a course I spent many happy days on, and he produced "A Season in Dornoch: Golf and Life in the Scottish Highlands"

He still lives in Toronto and Jupiter, Florida, with his beloved wife, Nell.

Well done Rube, I look forward as always to speaking to you and reading your next endeavour soon.

Bryan Angus
(notes from PGA of America)