New Mexico Golf News

Editor, online golf news/travel; freelance golf travel writer

Location: Albuquerque, N.M.

Email: dan@newmexicogolfnews.com

Phone(s): (505) 350-3805

www.NewMexicoGolfNews.com

Dan Vukelich is a freelance journalist who writes about travel, with a specialty in golf travel. He edits New Mexico Golf News, a site for New Mexico Golfers.

Dan also writes about golf travel for the Morning Read and its affiliated site, Where to Golf Next. Morning Read reaches 250,00 avid golfers daily; Where to Golf Next reaches 200,000 golfers weekly.

Dan is an occasional contributor to Golf Chicago, The Met Golfer (NYC), Golf Oklahoma, and Southern New England Golfer.

He has previously written golf-travel stories for Arizona’s AZ Golf Insider, the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Ventura County (Los Angeles) Star, Golf Getaways Magazine (formerly Fairways + Greens), New England Golf Monthly, and Hawaii Golf and Travel News.

Dan also contributes golf travel stories to JoeSentMe.com, an online paid-subscription newsletter with the inside dope for frequent business travelers edited by Joe Brancatelli, former publisher of Frequent Flier Magazine.

Dan spent his career as a reporter and editor and wrote for The Albuquerque Tribune, The Washington Times, City News Bureau of Chicago, Santa Fe New Mexican, Daily Southtown (Chicago) Economist and several other newspapers.

He is the former editor of Sun Country Golf, a now-closed regional golf magazine for New Mexico. He also produced “New Mexico Golf Tour,” a travelogue broadcast in 19 PBS TV markets in the early 2000s.

Some of Dan’s freelance golf-business and golf-travel clients in New Mexico have included the Santa Fe New Mexican, New Mexico Business Weekly, and Prime Time (Albuquerque) Magazine.

Dan is a member of the Golf Writers Association of America, the Society of Professional Journalists, and he has served on the boards of several New Mexico journalism organizations.

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