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Dennis McCann is well known throughout Wisconsin as a columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. McCann’s work, which focuses on interesting events and happenings around the state, has become a staple of the Journal Sentinel’s Sunday Travel Section.
But McCann – who with wife Barb splits time between Madison and Bayfield – is also a golf nut who has offered his opinions on a variety of subjects relating to the game in the pages of Wisconsin Golfer magazine. Since 1993, McCann’s columns have appeared on the last page of Wisconsin Golfer and its predecessor Wisconsin Golf.
Now, McCann’s best golf columns have been compiled in book form. “Rough Stuff: The Golf Columns of Dennis McCann” is a new book published by Killarney Golf Media, Inc., of Madison, the same company which creates Wisconsin Golfer magazine, the official publication of the Wisconsin State Golf Association.
The 47 columns selected for the book touch on subjects ranging from McCann’s early experiences in golf as a Janesville caddie, to his ongoing struggles to improve his current game. Various columns explore 1920s-era gangster golf in northern Wisconsin, the golf addiction of legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi, McCann’s first visit to the hallowed ground that is Augusta National GC and plenty about McCann’s favorite Wisconsin golf courses.
“Rough Stuff: The Golf Columns of Dennis McCann” is McCann’s third book. Previously published were “The Wisconsin Story: 150 Stories/150 Years,” published by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in 1998 in honor of the state’s sesquicentennial, and “Dennis McCann Takes You For a Ride,” a collection of travel columns published in 1990 by Amherst Press.
“Rough Stuff: The Golf Columns of Dennis McCann” runs 146 pages and sells for $16.95 in paperback form.
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