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What: Golfweek’s Pro Golf ’99

Price: $5.99

Consider this magazine the ultimate early wake-up call for the 1999 PGA Tour. So, golf geeks, unite, not to mention all you fantasy golf fans who would rather be handicapping the Buick Invitational than out acquiring a real life.

Whatever. No matter what level your interest in golf might be, Pro Golf ’99 is virtually as certain to be a useful and informative tool to follow the men’s game as Tiger Woods being in the hunt, gray skies appearing at Carnoustie and David Duval wearing shades the size of the dashboard of a 1959 Cadillac.

Numbers guru Sal Johnson, who is to golf statistics what “Two Fat Ladies” on the Food Network are to TV cooking shows, has managed to serve up a 204-page buffet line of, well, readable golf munchies.

Each tournament is handicapped, the top 100 players are broken down with enough statistical backup to choke a computer, and there’s even enough room to list a bunch of other players who we should watch out for . . . players such as Per-Ulrik Johansson of Sweden, who in his biographical data is revealed to have experienced dizzy spells that forced him to withdraw from the 1997 World Cup.

Sadly, Johnson missed the obvious Johansson reference. David Frost saw Johansson wearing a beret at a tournament last year and thought he was Monica Lewinsky. There is no intern section however. That’s about all Johnson left out.