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GolfStyles

golf magazine

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ4039565 ↗
Source-derived summary

GolfStyles (formerly the Washington Golf Monthly) is a regional golf magazine published in Fairfax, Virginia, and serving the Washington D.C. area. The magazine was started in 1994. It is also published in four other regional markets: Philadelphia, New Jersey, Ohio, and Atlanta. In early 2007, total circulation was more than 315,000 per issue.

Golfstyles bills itself as "America's best regional golf magazine" and was described as "world class" by course architect Arthur Hills. The publisher is Michael Keating, and the managing editor is Jeff Thoreson.

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The public source identifies “GolfStyles” as golf magazine. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around GolfStyles, golf and magazine.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994, 2007—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with GolfStyles, golf and magazine providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “GolfStyles” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.