Media Awards
19th Annual ING Media Awards Presented In 11 Categories; Gary Van Sickle, Ed Travis Capture Two First-Places Each
ORLANDO, FL (January 26, 2011) – Winners were announced and presented in 11 categories Thursday in the 19th Annual ING Media Awards. The presentations took place in ClubING, the ING Hospitality Room, at the PGA Merchandise Show in the Orange County Convention Center.
Gary Van Sickle of Sports Illustrated and freelance writer Ed Travis each won two first-place awards in the contest. Van Sickle won the Competition Writing Category for his piece “The Trials Of Jobe” in Sports Illustrated, and also took top honors in the Opinion Writing Category for his story, “Get Real, USGA.”
Travis took first place in the Equipment Writing Category for a story in New England Golf Monthly entitled “The Best Apps In Golf.” His second winning piece, “Clubmakers Support The Tee It Up Initiative,” was tops in the Business Writing Category and was published in Golf Oklahoma.
The International Network Of Golf is a 22-year-old, non-profit, media-based networking organization whose mission is to enhance and promote communication and education in golf. The group conducts two meetings each year in the spring and fall, where media and industry leaders gather to discuss issues, launch and test new products, enhance their skills and develop relationships.
Media Awards results are determined by three independent judges in each category. Judges use a set of criteria to compare entries, without knowledge (except in the electronic categories) of which media member did the work. The ING Media Awards Committee Chair is Cody Law.
Assured Products, Bridgestone Golf, Gallus Golf, GolfOrlando and PGA Golf Exhibitions sponsored the ING Media Awards program.
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Results by category in the 2011 ING Media Awards
APPAREL WRITING
1st Place: Katharine Dyson, Southern New England Golfer (“Dreading The Team Uniform Selection”).
Outstanding Achiever: Elle Elbrecht, New England Golf Monthly (“Golf Fashion Forward”).
BOOK AUTHOR
1st Place: David Barrett (“Miracle At Merion”)
Outstanding Achievers: Tony Roberts (Golf’s Finest Par Threes); Adam Schupak (“Deane Beman: Golf’s Driving Force”).
BUSINESS WRITING
1st Place: Ed Travis, Golf Oklahoma (“Clubmakers Support Tee It Up Initiative”)
Outstanding Achiever: Tony Dear, Cybergolf.com (“One Of These Shows Is Not Like The Other”).
COMPETITION WRITING
1st Place: Gary Van Sickle, Sports Illustrated (“The Trials Of Jobe”)
Outstanding Achievers: Mike Kern, Philadelphia Daily News (“The Great Unknown”); Adam Schupak, Golfweek (“Homecoming In the Heartland”).
EQUIPMENT WRITING
1st Place: Ed Travis, New England Golf Monthly (“The Best Apps In Golf”)
Outstanding Achiever: Darin Bunch, Fairways + Greens Magazine (“Hickory Dickering”).
OPINION/EDITORIAL
1st Place: Gary Van Sickle, Sports Illustrated (“Get Real, USGA”)
Outstanding Achievers: Mike Kern, Philadelphia Daily News (“New Winners Galore”); Adam Schupak, Golfweek (“Politics Trump Merit With Presidential Picks”); Gary Van Sickle, JohnGarrityTop50.Com (“Remembering Pittsburgh’s Needle”).
PHOTOGRAPHY
1st Place: Bob Solorio, Fairways + Greens (“Bouncing Bill”).
PROFILE WRITING
1st Place: Adam Schupak, Golfweek (“Family First”)
Outstanding Achievers: Robert Dicesare, Brockton Enterprise (“One-Eyed Ace”); Katharine Dyson, Fairways + Greens magazine (“Cornish Game Plan”); Adam Schupak, Golfweek (“Golf’s Great Divide”).
RADIO
1st Place: Tony Leodora, GolfTalk Live in Philadelphia (“Golf.Com World Amateur”)
Outstanding Achievers: Holly Geoghegan, The Golf Insiders, ESPN Orlando (“British Open Preview”); Vince Mastracco, Golf Talk Sacramento (“LPGA Tour commissioner Michael Whan”).
TRAVEL WRITING
1st Place: Elisa Gaudet, Cybergolf.com (“Golf A Romantic Affair At Cabin Bluff”)
Outstanding Achievers: Darin Bunch, Fairways + Greens magazine (“Wild And Spooky Fun”); Tony Dear, Cybergolf.com; (“Red Rock Rom”); Vic Williams, Fairways + Greens magazine (“The Essential Bandon”).
TELEVISION
1st Place: Dave Lockhart, Chicago District Golfer TV (“Golf In Michigan”);
Outstanding Achiever: Tony Leodora, Inside Golf on Comcast Sports, Philadelphia (“Woodloch Resort in the Poconos”)
ABOUT THE ING MEDIA AWARDS
The ING Media Awards program is conducted each year to recognize the best and brightest writers, broadcasters, publishers, editors, producers and photographers.
Entries must have been published or aired between October 1 and September 30 of the particular contest season. The contest is open only to ING members.
First-Place Finishers and Outstanding Achievers receive plaques. The number of outstanding achievers in each category is determined by the number of entries combined with the range of scoring.
The competition includes 13 categories in which individuals are honored: Apparel Writing, Business Writing , Book, Competition Writing, Equipment Writing, Illustration, Golf Instruction Writing, Photography, Profile Writing, Opinion/Editorial Writing, Television, Radio, and Travel Writing.
Any member of the media who is an ING member in good standing or who becomes an ING member on or before October 1 may enter.
Each member may submit up to two entries in each of the categories. The same article can not be entered in more than one category.
ING goes to great lengths to keep the contest fair and without bias. How?
A Category Chair is assigned for each category by the ING Media Awards committee. That person is responsible for selecting three judges for his/her specific category. Chairs are asked to find judges outside of ING membership if at all possible.
All entries, in applicable categories, are stripped of by-lines and other identifying marks BEFORE they are sent to the Category Chair, who then forwards entries to each judge. So even the Category Chairs do not know the identities.
Entries will be judged on a variety of criteria such as conformity with contest topic, content and originality, style, readability, mechanics, technical quality, composition and production values.
A first-place award will be given in each category in which the minimum number of entries is received.
Honorable mentions (Outstanding Achievers) may also be awarded, based upon the number of entries and the range of scoring in the category.
