Residing in Los Angeles, California, Daniel Wexler is one of America's leading golf historians and writers, having authored five prominent books on classic course design, golf literature, and the world’s greatest courses, as well as an encyclopedic volume profiling 1,300 of the game’s finest players, architects and journalists.  He has also penned numerous golf-related articles and served as co-editor of Sports Media Group’s Rare Golf Book Collection, reviving some of the game's oldest classic volumes and writing forewords/afterwords for titles such as Down The Fairway (Bobby Jones & O.B. Keeler), British Golf Links (Horace Hutchinson), The Walter Hagen Story (Walter Hagen), Golf From The Times (Bernard Darwin) and Fifty Years of Golf (Horace Hutchinson).  A member of the USGA's Architectural Archive committee, Mr. Wexler is frequently consulted regarding his research of the classic courses of golf design’s pre-World War II Golden Age, and owns one of the world’s finest private collections of books, period aerial golf course photos, scorecards and other historical materials.

A 1985 graduate of Middlebury College, Mr. Wexler has written for Golf World, the Los Angeles Times, ESPN.com and Links Magazine, and has had his work appear in Sports Illustrated, Fortune, The Golfer and numerous regional publications.  Also a former golf professional in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire and Marco Island, Florida, he has taught at the Bretton Woods (NH) Golf Academy (a program developed by 1964 U.S. Open Champion Ken Venturi) and worked at Los Angeles’s Riviera Country Club, cite of four Major championships and home of the PGA Tour’s Nissan Los Angeles Open.

He can be contacted at Midd23@aol.com.

 

BOOKS AUTHORED

* The Missing Links: America's Greatest Lost Golf Courses and Holes (Sleeping Bear Press/ John Wiley & Sons, 2000)

* Lost Links: Forgotten Treasures From Golf's Golden Age (Clock Tower Press/ John Wiley & Sons, 2003)

* The Golfer’s Library: A Reader’s Guide to Three Centuries of Golf Literature (Sports Media Group, 2004)

* The Book of Golfers: A Biographical History of the Royal & Ancient Game (Sports Media Group, 2005)

* The New World Atlas Of Golf (with Michael Clayton, Ran Morrissett, et. al.) (Hamlyn Publishing, 2008)