Awards season

Two honors so far for “Fore! Gone. Minnesota’s Lost Golf Courses”:
— A bronze medal (bronze-medal tie, to be perfectly accurate), in Mid-West Non-Fiction in the “IPPY” Awards (Independent Publisher Book Awards, with more than 5,500 total entries from 34 countries).
— Selected one of three finalists in the Recreation/sports category in the Midwest Book Awards competition (winners will be announced May 14).
Teamwork can do wonders. I had three terrific colleagues who made this book a winner: designer Tami Dever, photographer Peter Wong and editor Gary Derong. A heartfelt thank you to them, and to all the wonderful people I met who told me about lost golf courses.

Update, Nov. 12, 2014

A third significant award now in hand: “Fore! Gone.” was named a finalist in the Sports category in the USA Best Book Awards competition.

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Joe Bissen is a Caledonia, Minnesota, native and former golf letter-winner at Winona State University. He is a retired sports copy editor at the Minneapolis Star Tribune and St. Paul Pioneer Press and former sports editor of the Duluth News-Tribune. His writing has appeared in Minnesota Golfer and Mpls.St.Paul magazines. He lives in South St. Paul, MN. Joe's award-winning first book, "Fore! Gone. Minnesota's Lost Golf Courses 1897-1999," was released in December 2013, and a follow-up, "More! Gone. Minnesota's Lost Golf Courses, Part II" was released in July 2020. The books are most readily available online at Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble (bn.com). He continues to write about lost courses on this website and has uncovered more than 245 of them.

2 thoughts on “Awards season

  1. Joe-
    It was fun to visit with you today at Red Wing Golf Club, I hope you had a GREAT experience!
    The Architect is Joel Goldstrand. Good Luck with your book!

    Tom Neils
    Hole 6
    Red Wing Golf Club

    1. Sorry it took so long to approve the comment and respond, Tom. I get buried with spam, and the real comments tend to get lost. Was great visiting with you, too. I loved the old holes at Red Wing.

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