About Daniel

One of America's leading golf historians, writers and researchers, Daniel Wexler has spent his entire adult life in various areas of the golf media business. Having served as primary golf researcher at ESPN, Golf Channel and FOX Sports, he has also authored more than 20 books on various aspects of the Royal & Ancient game including the American Private Golf Club Guide, flagship volume of the unique Black Book guidebook series published under the MT III Golf Media label. He 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. Having also served as co-editor of Sports Media Group’s Rare Golf Book Collection (writing forewords for a number of prominent historical reprints), he 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, Daniel began his working life as a golf professional in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire and Marco Island, Florida, teaching at the Bretton Woods Golf Academy (in a program developed by 1964 U.S. Open Champion Ken Venturi). He has also worked at Los Angeles’s Riviera Country Club, site of four Major championships and home of the PGA Tour’s Genesis Invitational.