Grading The Golf News Sites Week: Golfweek.com

Thanks so far for the stellar comments on favorite golf sites, golf.com and golfdigest.com/golfworld.com. If you haven't weighed in, please do.

Now onto our next subject. Golfweek.com is probably the most vital of all the golf sites for the serious golfer and fan of tournament golf. However, more than the other sites poses one of those love-hate situations for me:

  • Love the exclusive online content and guaranteed daily wrap up of important tournaments in easy to digest ways.
  • Hate the slideshow music and other lame cutesy stuff prone to pop up on GolfweekTV (though I notice much less since a certain editor with lousy taste in cover art has moved on).
  • Love the content of the blogs. Short, snappy, fun little items that probably wouldn't mean much by the time Golfweek hits the presses, but which work perfectly online.
  • Hate the complete and totally inexplicable lack of real blog features: reader comments and permalink or emailable options for posts. If I can set up a real blog, so can you Golfweek.
  • Love the simple design and ease of use when I get home and just want to get a quick hit of news.
    Columns are easy to find, as are many other things like the top 100 lists and the player rankings.
  • Hate the difficulty of finding news stories that appeared more than a week ago.

Overall I think they do a great job making their print publication still valuable while also delivering as much original online content as any site. It would be nice to see some more print items appear a month after appearing in Golfweek in order to build up a nice archive (and hits!).

That said, many of the columnists are particularly strong and seem to offer up offbeat stuff online, which I love and feel is lacking at times elsewhere.

What do you all think?