Golf Upbeat About Downtrodden Sport

Between the pinch of the ad recession and flameout of its most famous player, golf has some rebuilding to do. The same can be said for the reigning monthlies devoted to the sport, Golf Magazine and Golf Digest, which each shed 28 percent of their ad pages last year.
 
But Time Inc.’s Golf Magazine, while it’s still been trailing Condé Nast’s Digest in terms of overall pages, is turning a corner this year. The recovery comes thanks partly to the magazine’s first “No.