Elsa Bonstein has been writing feature articles and a golf column (Golf Gab) for the Brunswick Beacon since moving to North Carolina in 2000. She is also a correspondent for Carolinas Green, the magazine of the Carolinas Golf Course Superintendents Association.
Her awards include the following:
2010 Carolina Golf Reporters Association, Best in Photography: Lockwood Folly Golf Course.
2009 Carolina Golf Reporters Association, Best in Photography: Bob Cat In Arizona.
2005 Landmark Community Newspapers: 2nd Place Best News or Feature Story Series Weekly. (I wrote a series on Hospice care where I shadowed a dying man for the last six weeks of his life, juxtaposing that with his life story as a WWII Veteran.)
2005 Carolinas Golf Course Superintendents Association Media Award Runner-Up: Golf Courses Can Get Heatstroke Too.
2004 Carolinas Golf Course Superintendents Association Media Award Best Report: The Most Beautiful Office in the World
2003 Carolinas Golf Course Superintendents Association Media Awards Best Report All Categories: A Day in the Life of a Green Superintendent
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