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What: Greensfever Magazine

Price: $2.99/$8.97 for a one-year subscription (four issues)

The National Golf Foundation reports that 3.8 million 8 to 18 year-olds are playing golf, making junior golf the fastest growing segment in the sport. Texas publisher Joel Kessler decided to capitalize. This is a quarterly, junior golf-specific publication which hit newsstands last month. It is an entertaining, insightful and educational look inside the world of junior golf with stories short enough to keep the attention of teenage readers while remaining interesting and informative. Richard S. Brannagh’s cover story on Tiger Woods’ childhood instructor, Randy Duran, is the centerpiece, but certainly not the only highlight.

Eric Yoder delivers an eye-opening story on the availability of college golf scholarships, Larry Dennis informs ambitious parents the proper ways of starting children in golf and G. Adam Burns explains the joys of playing solo. Sections on rules, etiquette and the mental side of golf dot the pages and a photographic look at the American Junior Golf Assn. shows many of the top junior golfers in action. The high point comes from well-known golf writer Kathlene Bissell, who crafted a fictional account of a high school golfer playing a round against three rivals with a golf scholarship on the line.

The lone shortcoming in the first issue comes in the profiles of top junior golfers Hunter Mahan and Beth Bauer. The Mahan piece is in question-and-answer form and the Bauer story lacks depth. But if the premier issue of Greensfever is any indication, this will become a valuable resource for both junior golfers and their parents.