Alabama Golf News

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

Location: Albuquerque, N.M.

Email: [email protected]

Phone(s): (505) 350-3805

Alabama Golf News

Dan Vukelich is a freelance journalist who writes about travel, with a specialty in golf travel. He is online editor of Alabama Golf News, a site for Alabama golfers.

Dan also writes for for FirstCallGolf.com and is an occasional contributor to Golf Chicago, Golf Oklahoma, and Southern New England Golfer.

Dan has previously written for MorningRead.com, The Met Golfer (NYC), Arizona’s AZ Golf Insider, the Chicago Tribune travel section, Chicago Sun-Times travel section, Ventura County (Los Angeles) Star, Golf Getaways Magazine (formerly Fairways + Greens), New England Golf Monthly, and Hawaii Golf and Travel News.

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

He is the former editor of Sun Country Golf, magazine that served New Mexico golfers. He also produced “New Mexico Golf Tour,” a travelogue broadcast in 19 PBS TV markets in the early 2000s. He also edits New Mexico Golf News, a site for New Mexico golfers.

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. He is a winner of an Investigative Reporters and Editors award.

Links to some of Dan’s golf-travel articles:

The End of the Scottsdale Media Classic

Muni putting N.M. Town on the Map

Looking to Play Bucket-list Golf Post-pandemic? Take a Number