Travel + Leisure Golf

Publisher: American Express
Started: 1998
Shuttered: April 2009
Post-mortem from Golf.com:

"If you looked beyond the glare of the alluring photos — golf porn, some people called them — you could usually find substance. As story lengths were shrinking and features were being replaced by cheaper, easier-to-produce Q&A's throughout the industry, the magazine remained a haven for the artful writer. Readers so inclined could savor the well-crafted sentence and the lengthy narratives on offbeat subjects (gimme putts, America's fiercest club championship, the enduring mystery of Young Tom Morris's death). The contributors ranged from the established to the aspiring, from a best-selling novelist like Chang-rae Lee to freelancers whose bylines appeared mainly in local papers or regional monthlies.

There's something else we all lose when a publication disappears: a sliver of the written memento of our day. Golf journalism creates a rich historical record about this game we love. May the craft long outlive these troubling times."