Lyle Slovick

Lyle Slovick is a historian and writer, and author of "Trials and Triumphs of Golf's Greatest Champions: A Legacy of Hope," published by Rowan & Littlefield in 2016. From 2013-2018 he was a consultant for the United States Golf Association, working on a historical scoring database of all its championships that currently informs NBC Sports (and previously Fox Sports) and other media in their coverage of the U.S. Open. He also did research and writing for the USGA, including a three-part series...See more

Lyle Slovick is a historian and writer, and author of "Trials and Triumphs of Golf's Greatest Champions: A Legacy of Hope," published by Rowan & Littlefield in 2016. From 2013-2018 he was a consultant for the United States Golf Association, working on a historical scoring database of all its championships that currently informs NBC Sports (and previously Fox Sports) and other media in their coverage of the U.S. Open. He also did research and writing for the USGA, including a three-part series on the history of women's golf in the United States, and another piece on the evolution of the first Curtis Cup competition in 1932. Lyle has a B.A. degree from Pacific Lutheran University (1982) and an M.A. degree from George Washington University (1993.) He spent 13 years working at GWU amongst the rare books and manuscripts in the Special Collections Department of the Gelman Library. The last eight of those years he served as Assistant University Archivist, where he oversaw more than 1,000 collections documenting the administrative and social history of GWU. He processed the papers of Janet G. Travell, personal physician to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson; and the papers of Drs. Walter Freeman and James Watts, pioneers in the surgical procedure known as lobotomy (featured in a 2008 documentary for PBS's American Experience series.) Lyle served as co-editor of the "GW Historical Encyclopedia," an on-line publication, contributing over 330 articles. His published articles include: "George Y. Coffin: A Schoolboy's Life in 19th Century Washington," in Washington History magazine (Fall/Winter 2006-07), along with numerous articles for Through the Green (the journal of the British Golf Collectors Society from 2012-2020.) Read more about Lyle and his books on his website and the book's Facebook page: https: //lyleslovick.wixsite.com/lyleslovick/books; https: //www.facebook.com/pg/Shadows-on-the-Green-Golfs-Scandals-Tragedies-and-Offbeat-Tales-103450914748896/posts/?ref=page_internal See less