Our Magazine Edit in July went 24 titles wide. This one goes six deep. These are the independent golf magazines we would put on the table this fall: who makes them, what is in the latest issue, and what it costs from the maker’s own shop.
The common thread is slowness. Every one is printed, most come out twice a year or less, and only one reviews equipment. Hiatus is the most exciting new title in golf print. Depeche Golf is the most ambitious. Golf Quarterly is the funniest, and the smallest.
Start with Hiatus No. 2 at CAD 18. For the deep end, Depeche Golf #5 at €25. Prices were read from each magazine’s own store on 28 September 2026, in the store’s own currency.
We left out the titles from The Magazine Edit, except Depeche Golf. We only included magazines we could buy from the maker today, with pictures of what you get, and we flag the two that have gone quiet. Club magazines and digital-only titles are out. One society journal made it in, because nobody else writes about course design like the architects themselves.
Montreal · twice a year · English and FrenchEach issue runs about 120 pages and costs CAD 18 from the publisher.
Hiatus comes from LSTW Publishing, the Montreal house behind the queer magazine LSTW, which has won National Magazine Awards in Canada. Florence Gagnon is the publisher and Carolyne De Bellefeuille is the art director, and every page runs in English and French.
No. 1 launched in September 2025 at the magazine’s own Hiatus Golf Invitational, at Club de Golf Le Champêtre in Quebec. It had Bunker Club, a Los Angeles golf club for women and queer golfers, a guide to golf trips in eastern Quebec, and a critique of courses and clubhouses designed around men. No. 2 is out now.
It is the best-designed new title in golf, and the only one here that treats the clubhouse as something to argue with. In the US it is stocked at Metalwood Studio and Skylight Books in Los Angeles, Chess Club in Portland and Another Corner in Philadelphia.
Germany · twice a year · EnglishIssues run up to 160 pages. Issue #5 is €25, and #6 ships in November.
Depeche Golf is made in Korntal-Münchingen, near Stuttgart, by co-publishers Mark Horyna and Emil Weber. It calls itself an international golf and culture magazine, “From Europe with Love for the Game.” Every issue has a theme, a Photographer in Residence, and long essays set next to art.
Issue #5, HOME, came out in June. It goes to St Andrews, spends a summer on the road in Ireland, visits the Engadine Golf Club in St Moritz, looks for the vanishing greens of Singapore, and meets an artist in New Zealand who built an unplayable course through his home town of Christchurch.
It is the most ambitious title here. We gave it one paragraph in July’s Magazine Edit, and it deserved more. Issues #1 to #3 are €19.90 and #4 and #5 are €25. A one-year subscription of two issues is €22.50 plus shipping, starting with #6 in November.
Cambridge, UK · twice a year · 100 pagesEach issue is £20, and a golf PR agency publishes it.
The Loop Journal comes from The Loop, a golf PR and marketing agency in Cambridge. Its founders include Mike Harris, a former editor of a leading UK golf magazine, and Alex Narey, who worked at the magazine from 2008. The writing is professional and the travel pieces run long: Narey told Golf Business News there was no set word count.
Volume 01 arrived in February with the Northumberland links and a 16-page portfolio by the photographer Kevin Murray, from Lofoten Links to Pinehurst No. 2 and Royal Portrush. Volume 02 followed in July.
There is one thing to know. An agency that works with golf brands also reviews equipment in these pages. The travel writing is the reason to buy it.
UK · four times a year · 44 pages, A5An issue is £10 and a year of four is £35, with no advertising.
Golf Quarterly is the smallest magazine here and probably the funniest. It is pocket-sized, 44 pages with no advertising, and it has run since 2010. The editor is Tim Dickson, who spent 21 years at the Financial Times, and the publisher is Jon Connell, who founded The Week.
It is built on wit and history. Recent issues cover Moe Norman, golf in the Falklands, the year of Bob Hope and the last stymie, and eight decades of a mothers-and-daughters tournament.
There is one caveat. The homepage still shows Autumn 2023, but the shop lists every issue up to No. 58 and still sells subscriptions. We could not confirm a 2026 issue.
Australia · annual since 1997Each issue is AUD 20, and the price includes postage.
Golf Architecture is the annual of the Society of Australian Golf Course Architects, and it has been published since 1997. The people who design and restore courses write it, for readers who want to know why a bunker sits where it does.
It is not a lifestyle magazine, and that is the appeal. Past issues interviewed Mike Keiser Jr. and toured Ardfin on the Isle of Jura. Every back issue is AUD 20 with postage, and all but one are in stock.
Wirral, UK · 18 volumes plannedEach volume is £19.95. Two are out so far.
Sam Cooper is a golf architect with Clayton, DeVries & Pont and a member at Royal Liverpool. Between 2020 and 2022 he and his wife Harriet played all 225 links courses in Great Britain from a camper van. Links from the Road is that trip, published round the coast in 18 volumes, with illustrations by Will Eagar.
Each chapter mixes architecture, history and his own photography, and each course has a companion podcast episode.
The catch is the wait. Volume 2 came out in April 2025 and there is no sign of Volume 3 yet. Both volumes are still in stock.
Our six are Hiatus (Montreal), Depeche Golf (Germany), The Loop Journal (UK), Golf Quarterly (UK), Golf Architecture (Australia) and Links from the Road (UK). For 24 more, see our Magazine Edit.
The Loop Journal published Volume 01 in February 2026 and Volume 02 in July. Hiatus published its second issue in 2026, and Depeche Golf released issue #5 in June, with #6 due in November.
Hiatus lists Metalwood Studio and Skylight Books in Los Angeles, Chess Club in Portland and Another Corner in Philadelphia. The publisher sells both issues online for CAD 18 each.
Golf Architecture, the annual of the Society of Australian Golf Course Architects, has been published since 1997 and costs AUD 20 with postage. Links from the Road, by the golf architect Sam Cooper, covers every links course in Great Britain.
Golf Quarterly is £35 a year for four issues. Depeche Golf is €22.50 a year for two issues, plus shipping. Hiatus, The Loop Journal and Links from the Road sell single issues.
