Rafe Tennenbaum

Raphael Tennenbaum has written features for Golf Digest, Maximum Golf, Golf Illustrated, and Yahoo! Internet Life, and has reported for Newsday and Wired. His essays and columns have appeared in Newday, Golf World, the Weekly Forward, and the satirical online 'zine Suck. Rafe has also produced business features, profiles, and interviews for Continental Magazine, RIS News, and Investor's Business Daily.

After working as a cub reporter for Newsday, Rafe made his mark as the first in golf to cover the uneasy relationship golf and the environment with a column for Golf Illustrated in 1985. Later that year, Tennenbaum wrote a book-length investigation of professional wrestling: "Sleeper Hold" was hailed by wrestling fans and journalists as an impeccably-researched, vastly entertaining and truly inside look at the pro wrestling industry, "the best mainstream coverage of the era," in the words of one well-known wrestling writer.

A 1987 Golf Illustrated story about emotions anticipated the focus on the mental aspects of competitive golf; his 1994 feature about caddies on the PGA Tour earned accolades from correspondents and television and radio broadcasters, while a Golf World guest column about team golf from later that year presaged the resurgence in match-play interest among golf fans.

In 1996 he heralded the advent of the internet with a Golf Magazine feature about the World Wide Web. He honed in on the social changes wrought by the electronic age in a 1998 cover story for Yahoo! Internet Life titled "The Email Chronicles." His sports-related op-eds have placed Tiger Woods in the context of the post-Vietnam world of golf; anticipated the Supreme Court's ruling in the Casey Martin case, and deconstructed the psyche of then-Indiana University basketball coach Bob Knight. He's written engagingly about comedy -- about W.C. Fields and Woody Allen for Newsday and the Weekly Forward. In 2008, he rode his Moto Guzzi motorcycle from cross-county and wrote about the experience for Fairways And Greens.

A graduate of Haverford College with a degree in philosophy, he is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA), the Metropolitan Golf Writers Association, and the Golf Writers Association of America. Under the stage name "Ray Field," he has acted in films and television, and performed as a stand-up comedian in New York and around the country.