Jerry Tarde has been the editor-in-chief at Golf Digest for 32 years, growing the circulation of the world’s leading golf publication to 1.65 million, and expanding its international affiliates to 27 editions.
Tarde has also grown GolfDigest.com’s average monthly unique visitors to 2.4 million and average monthly videos views to 23 million. He has attracted some of the most renowned journalists to the brand, including Thomas L. Friedman, Dan Jenkins and John Feinstein, and he has signed exclusive contracts with the greatest players in the history of the game — Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Tom Watson and Annika Sorenstam, as well as modern-day all-stars — Jordan Spieth and Rickie Fowler.
Tarde has helped Golf Digest win more than 200 awards from the Golf Writers Association of America and several nominations for National Magazine Awards (including an ASME for General Excellence, the industry’s most coveted nomination). Tarde himself has won the PGA of America Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism.
Prior to graduating from Northwestern University’s School of Journalism in 1978, Tarde joined Golf Digest as an intern and was assistant editor soon thereafter. Tarde became associate editor in 1979 and senior editor in 1982. In 1984, at age 28, Tarde was named editor of Golf Digest.