Golf Media Network’s The Grain: Over 3.5 Million Readers Served

(Portland, Ore.) – The Grain - Golf Media Network’s (GMN) innovative digital publication - has delivered more than 3.5 million ad serves to readers for clients so far in 2014. GMN partners with 35 state and provincial (Canadian) golf associations that distribute the publication directly to members. Because the publication is sent from a trusted source, The Grain’s U.S. Open issue, as the most recent example, achieved a 33.5 percent open rate among its association partners, above industry standards.

The Grain delivers unique content about golf’s major tournaments and the golf lifestyle in a unique digital format to 1.8 million readers through its golf association partners as well as through partnerships with advertisers such as Shotzoom, makers of leading golf GPS apps GolfShot and TOURCaddie; and National Golf Management, which owns and operates some of the best golf courses in Myrtle Beach. The new Open Championship edition of The Grain, available now, offers insight into this year’s tournament at Royal Liverpool and highlights England’s “Golf Coast,” Beatles history in Liverpool, great British Isles courses that haven’t hosted the Open Championship, and much more.
     
Golf Media Network produces a multi-platform portfolio of golf content—including The Grain, Golf Road Warriors, and TheAPosition.com— and features work by the world’s best golf and travel writers. The term “The A Position” refers to the best place a golfer can land his tee shot. On the web, it refers to the site readers will want to land on for great golf and travel journalism.