Stacy Solomon has been a student of the game of golf since 2000 and blogger for "Golf for Beginners, because we're always learning" since 2004. She has written hundreds of articles and blogs for well-known internet websites such as Worldgolf.com and her work has been reprinted on thousands of sports websites.Hi Friends,
Golf for Beginners started out as a way for me to keep my lessons in a format where anyone could see them and benefit from them. The website has grown to include PGA Tour and LPGA Tour commentary, equipment news and travel destinations. I am very proud to consider Golf for Beginners a worldwide blog, realizing that golf is growing on a global level!
An amateur golfer, my handicap stands at about a sixteen which drops as the year progresses and as my short game improves! As I always say, "the game is played from 100 yards and in!"
I am also the Producer of the popular five-year long Golf for Beginners Podcast, a regular top-ten on iTunes amateur sports listings. I earned kudos as a pioneer of podcasting by several newspapers including New Jersey Jewish News, "Couple Uses Media Technology to Teach golf to beginners" and The Working Musician. Portions of my podcasts have been reproduced on radio stations as far-reaching as South Africa!
I am also very proud that I have helped to make Golf for Beginners recognizable and my blogs can now be found online in the NY Daily News Sports Section!
I have been invited as a guest on several radio shows such as AOL Sports Radio and the GolfClubRadio Show with Danielle Tucker. Ms. Tucker has mentioned that Golf for Beginners offers "positive and constructive feedback plus great blogs and insight."
Read the Stacy Solomon interview on Leaderboard Golf to learn more about what I think makes a good golf blog and my favorite moments in the world of professional golf.
Inciteful and instructive interviews have been conducted through email, podcasts and Twitter with some of the best known golfers and thinkers in the industry including Hank Haney, John Daly, Morgan Pressel Jim Furyk and Brian Whitcomb.
Golf4Beginners has taken flight on Twitter and, because of the thousands of friends I have made there, was recently asked to reveal some of my expert secrets in the premier issue of 914 Inc. Magazine.
I had initially chosen to keep Golf for Beginners on Facebook for personal communications but now, since many of my golf fans are friends, I publicized it to the millions more friends in the social media arena. Within six months of going public, I now have about 1,000 friends (and making many more every day!)
Dennis Allen, a twenty-five year golf industry veteran and Executive Vice President of the new Back9 Network recently said, "she cares about the game of golf and is insightful. She has lots of ideas percolating in her head that she willing shares."
My career has been as varied as a Party Planner for Billboard Magazine to Circulation Sales Director with magazines at Fairchild Publications. For the past several years, I have committed myself fully to internet media as a Search Engine Optimization and Social Media Manager.
An honor graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, I chose to remain in my hometown attending New York University on a full four-year scholarship. I love new technology and to be able to explain and engage others with my passion. Combining my love of tech with golf has been a long term goal for me.
Two years ago, I became a member of the Metropolitan Golf Writers Association and am very proud to be one of the few females in the group as well as one of the only golf writers exclusively serving the online community.
Recently I was asked, and have accepted, a volunteer position on the Steering Committee for The Club Cup, a inaugural social media event designed to help grow the game of golf among the masses with the assistance of PGA and LPGA Tour players.
I have always promoted causes that are near and dear to my heart and will never compromise in my resolve to be the best person I can be. The message in golf is a good one and I live by the rules of the First Tee Program; be honest, have integrity, confidence and respect, play by the rules, and persevere despite obstacles!
