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Business

FORE! OF THE BEST

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Post Staff Report
Published July 16, 2007, 9:00 a.m. ET

For golf fans, it’s Open season, and with the British Open fast approaching, we thought it would be a good idea to get our resident duffers to review the latest crop of golf-related mags.

Golf World follows last week’s cover of Women’s Open champ Kristie Kerr with one on Brad Bryant’s Senior Open victory at Whistling Straits and a headline teasing a British Open preview. Golf World, a sister publication to Golf Digest, also gave a favorable review to Tiger Woods’ AT&T National debut tournament at Congressional. We also liked GW’s stats pages, which no other golf magazine has.

If you’re thinking about getting some lessons, this issue of Golf Digest is what you need. The cover story tells you who America’s 50 greatest teachers are (we worked with one for a few years). A companion piece gives solid tips from the top five teachers. And there’s a pull-out guide, “Best Teachers in Your State,” where you can look for a teaching pro. Last, there’s a story on the five rules for picking a teacher.

Travel & Leisure Golf profiles some intriguing places to play, highlighting courses in Wales, Canada and Vermont. Our favorite place profiled in the issue is the Isle of Arran, which is seven miles from the west coast of Scotland. The island boasts seven championship golf courses and a charming town. Best of all, according to the mag, the courses are much cheaper than the high-profile ones on the mainland and won’t frustrate high-handicap players. We also enjoyed the spread on ocean courses and the story on golfing in North Dakota.

Golf Magazine, which is produced by the same folks as Sports Illustrated, gives readers mountains of tips on how to stay out of the rough and impress your friends with new equipment. The only downside of the mag is that it has too much, and often, conflicting advice on how to better your game. The two pieces on how to hit better chip shots give you different techniques. That said, the advice in this week’s issue should be helpful to anyone who actually does the drills. We also liked the PGA Championship preview package. It’s written in Sports Illustrated style and stacks up the rivalries nicely.

New York magazine’s excellent cover story on Eliot Spitzer shows how the governor’s idealistic and combative ways won him some early victories but also taught him some painful lessons in his first months in Albany. There’s also a profile of fashion muse Isabella Blow, though the story feels a bit dated. Blow died in May and her eccentric life was pretty well covered at the time of her death. Could Andy Samberg be the next Adam Sandler? If his comedy “Hot Rod” is a hit, he’ll be the first viral video star to go mainstream, New York reports. And for those of you who thought Fire Island would remain a sheltered paradise devoid of cars and dotted by little red wagons, think again. With the opening of a Manhattan brokerage, “Hamptonization” of the oversized sandbar of Tinker Toy communities could be just moments away.

The New Yorker offers up an in-depth profile of real-estate mogul and Daily News publisher Mort Zuckerman – among whose chief qualities appear to be a copious amount of joke-telling. Though wonderfully written by Nick Paumgarten, the story could have benefited from more of a news hook. Still, there are interesting lines, including one about Zuckerman’s purchase of the News. “It is said that it galls Zuckerman that his crowd does not usually read it,” Paumgarten writes, “but he insists that he doesn’t care.” Elsewhere, William Dalrymple reports on Pakistan’s opposition movements and Atul Gawande makes some interesting comments on health care. Also, there’s a fascinating article on the causes of a sudden onset of musical or artistic interests (sometimes brought on after near-fatal accidents). There are also discussions about the visions that people have on their deathbeds and whether there is anything after death.

Has anyone else noticed the growing role that religion seems to be occupying in politics? The presidential candidates, for example, seem to be doing a lot of praying lately. That is no coincidence as Time magazine’s cover story points out. The Democrats have gotten religion to close the gap with Republicans, but somehow the newly pious note rings false, the mag reports. Democratic candidates seem to be having troubling reconciling their faith with some of the party’s main platforms such as pro-choice and gay rights. Meanwhile, an opinion piece by Amy Sullivan makes the point that voters increasingly care about a president’s moral fiber and they equate that fiber with a religious stance. On a lighter note, are you ready for “Sex and the City” – the movie?

Newsweek finally has a cover story that not only is guaranteed to have wide interest but is also riveting in its subject matter: How science is bringing more heart-attack victims back to life. Apparently something as simple as lowering body temperature can keep heart-attack victims alive and may ultimately save as many as 100,000 lives a year. Elsewhere, “Sick, Single and Seeking Same” takes a look at online dating site, Prescription 4Love.com, where singles with everything from sexually transmitted diseases to other health problems can find companionship. Would you bring your mom on a date? A growing number of teenage girls apparently would, according to Newsweek, which reports on what it calls a new modesty movement. Rather than baring all and being promiscuous, these girls are covering up and pledging abstinence until marriage.