As part of our 50th anniversary celebrations, golfweek Take a walk down memory lane with many of the former employees who helped make the brand what it is today.
We continue this series with Brentley Romine, one of the many great college golf reporters in the magazine’s history.
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When did you start working at Golfweek?
2011-2018
Maverick McNealy and Brentley Romine in 2017, when Romine covered college and amateur golf for Golfweek.
What is your Golfweek title and please briefly describe what you do.
Deputy Editor. The title remains the same, but the characters do change. It started with covering junior golf and producing the Onyx Page. Then I added college and amateur golf, and finally professional championships and majors. By the end of my tenure, we were well into the Gannett era, and I was basically covering multiple PGA Tour events every month and all the majors, plus the NCAA, the U.S. Amateur, the Walker Cup, etc. It was a very busy time!
What is your current position and company?
Golf Channel Staff Writer
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What has been your proudest moment while working at Golfweek?
Maybe not a singular moment, but coming into the U.S. Juniors and writing the first national stories for guys like Scotty Scheffler and Maverick McNeely; in retrospect, that’s pretty cool for a 20-year-old kid to be writing about now, at 35, still writing about those same players.
These days, most media outlets rarely cover the USA Juniors at home. Golfweek will have dedicated pages and pages. That’s why Golfweek is the best.
in the old golfweek Those days, you were part of a family that loved golf and storytelling. It’s really like a fraternity, everyone looks out for each other and the vets mentor the kids. We have great leaders in Jeff Babineau and Steve Harmon and equally great teammates. My most memorable weeks were the NCAA tournament weeks with guys like Lance Ringler, Beth Ann Nichols, Kevin Casey, Julie Williams and Tracy Wilcox, and the days when we had majors with the Babs and that gang. golfweek Troops are actually sent to these events and those troops make for some great stories.
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And another memory: covering the 2018 Ryder Cup in Paris from my apartment in Florida. My partner in crime Kevin and I have been working from our living room all week, spending way too much on groceries, and barely sleeping while live streaming games in the middle of the night.
Cole Hammer, Philip Barbari, Noah Goodwin and Brentley Romine.
What’s your most memorable “hair on fire” moment?
For former managing editor (and hockey referee) Craig Holland, aka Stripes, that’s every day. I still have a collection of his best quotes, page after page, that I affectionately label “S—Stripes Said.”
Some samples:
“I would have them draw a cartoon of me with a little box on it, like Lucy from ‘Peanuts,’ and it said ‘Five cents per question.'”
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“Next thing you know, we’re hearing they all got rabies from Sammy the squirrel.”
“The only thing I know about barn rats is that there was a fire in the barn and there was only one dead rat left. Barn rats.”
But the most dramatic moment was the death of Arnold Palmer on the Sunday before the 2016 Ryder Cup. golfweek was the first to break the news that night, and within a few hours our amazing team was able to completely revise the issue and publish it on Monday as a special edition dedicated primarily to Arnie.
Of course, the word from Stripes is: “They’re going to rename the Ryder Cup the Arnold Palmer Cup.” “They already have that,” Brentley said. “They’re going to take that away.”
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What is your favorite golf course you have played? Why?
Augusta National. Perhaps due to Golfweek’s legacy, Golfweek’s first-time Masters players typically win Monday’s media sweepstakes. I was lucky enough to participate in the 2016 competition. But what’s also great is that I play all the games on the road with my colleague Adam Schupak, who has been a close mentor and friend in many tournaments.
(Editor’s note: We’re grateful to all of our former employees who contributed their time and energy to this feature. The Golf News community is small, and we’re proud of all our former colleagues’ achievements.)
This article originally appeared in Golfweek: Golfweek 50th Anniversary: ​​Brentley Romine tackles college, ambeats
