Affluent Golfer’s A Round With Makes Room for the Person Behind the Name

By Dean Kirkland, Publisher, Affluent Golfer

Golf has a useful way of getting a conversation started. There is time between shots, room for a little honesty, and occasionally a ball in the trees that gives everybody something else to talk about.

That is the spirit behind A Round With, Affluent Golfer’s interview department. The familiar name gets our attention. The person behind it is where the story begins.

Good questions travel well

A career supplies the headlines, but it rarely tells the whole story. How did the game find someone? What makes them come back? Is there a course, a friendship or a small ritual that means more than the score?

Those are the sorts of questions that interest us. A thoughtful answer can tell you more than another list of accomplishments, especially when there is room for a digression. In golf, as in conversation, the most interesting route is not always the straightest one.

There is room here for the competitive streak and the sense of humor, the early lesson that stuck and the habit that probably should not have. You do not need to share somebody’s profession to recognize the pleasure of one good shot after a thoroughly unconvincing afternoon.

A familiar face, a different conversation

The Affluent Golfer archive includes A Round With Clint Eastwood and A Round With Cheryl Hines. These are earlier features from the magazine’s history, available to explore alongside its developing editorial lineup.

The department gives readers a chance to spend a little time with people whose connection to golf might be only one part of a much larger life. We want the conversation to feel welcoming, curious and worth staying for. Nobody should need a press badge or a single-digit handicap to enjoy it.

Who belongs in the next conversation?

We welcome ideas from golf personalities and their representatives, as well as readers who know someone with an interesting connection to the game. A good story might begin with a celebrated career. It might begin with the person whose name you have not heard yet.

Explore AffluentGolferMag.com and send editorial ideas to Dean Kirkland at dean@affluentgolfermag.com. Bring a good story. We can leave the swing analysis for another day.

Header: AI-generated coastal golf illustration with the Affluent Golfer masthead. The scene does not depict a specific golf course.