As part of the fun surrounding our 50th anniversary, Golfweek has been walking down Memory Lane with a number of former employees who helped make the brand what it is today.
We continue the series with a longtime editor, Kevin Adams.
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When did you work at Golfweek?
2002-2013
What was your Golfweek title, and give us a brief description of what you did.
Assistant Managing Editor
Kevin Adams, left, and his son Jonathan during a round at Pinehurst Resort in 2023.
What’s your current title and company?
Senior Marketing Editorial Manager, Holland & Knight LLP
What’s the one moment you’re proudest of while working with Golfweek?
I was more on the editing side, so I didn’t get to write too often at Golfweek, but I was most proud of some of my travel writing, including features that I wrote on a Hawaii golf cruise, Pinehurst, Daufuskie Island, Hilton Head and a spring training-golf combo trip in South Florida. Travel editors Jeff Barr and Marty Kaufmann graciously afforded me the opportunity to go on such trips, and I still feel those were some of the best articles in my sports journalism career of nearly 25 years.
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What’s the ‘hair-on-fire’ moment you remember most vividly?
Every Sunday night and Monday during a major week, which was a blur from the end of Sunday’s final round until the magazine was completed the evening after. We’d always have a ton of extra pages to fill, with very little copy coming in before late Sunday evening. We typically left at midnight or after, then were back at 8 a.m. on Monday morning to start editing the stories turned in overnight and then reviewing each page as it was completed, often not leaving the office until the last page was done at 8 or 9 p.m. (or later). Looking back, I’m not sure how we did it, but having a terrific team of writers that knew the game inside and out and didn’t need a ton of edits certainly helped.
Kevin Adams, left, and his son Jonathan during a round at Pinehurst Resort in 2023.
What’s your favorite golf course you’ve played and why?
Harbour Town Golf Links, hands down. I was the sports editor at the Hilton Head Island Packet newspaper for 7 years or so in the 1990s, and got to cover the Heritage PGA Tour event each April and play Harbour Town a couple of times per year. I consider it Pete Dye’s best work, and it’s a tribute to his mastery that such a short course still challenges and confounds the world’s best players, not to mention the Heritage’s list of champions reads like a wall straight from the Golf Hall of Fame. One of the best sets of par 3s anywhere, and there’s still nothing like standing on the 18th tee with the wind whipping, Calibogue Sound to your left and the iconic lighthouse straight ahead.
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(Editor’s note: We appreciate all the former employees who have contributed time and effort to this feature. The golf journalism community is a small one and we’re proud of the achievements of all our former colleagues.)
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