Bob Weeks
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Bob Weeks is the editor of Scoregolf
Scoregolf
SCOREgolf Magazine is a Canadian golf publication, which started in 1981 as the program for the Canadian Open golf tournament. The magazine is now the largest circulation golf publication in Canada and has grown into other media including television and radio.-History:Scoregolf is published by...

 Magazine. In addition, he serves as host for SCOREGolf TV and SCOREGolf Radio, and is the golf analyst for TSN
The Sports Network
The Sports Network, commonly abbreviated as TSN, is a Canadian English language Category C specialty channel and is Canada's leading English language sports TV channel. TSN premiered in 1984, in the first group of Canadian specialty cable channels...

. He is also the curling columnist for the Globe and Mail, and editor of the Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

 Curling Report.

Weeks joined SCOREGolf as associate editor in October 1987. He was promoted to editor in 1992.

In 2009, he was ranked sixth overall and the top media member on the National Post's list of the most influential people in Canadian golf.

Books

He has authored five books: The World’s Greatest Golf Courses; The Brier: A History of Canada’s Most Celebrated Curling Championship; Curling
Curling
Curling is a sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area. It is related to bowls, boule and shuffleboard. Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called "rocks", across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a...

 For Dummies (Vols 1 and 2); Hurry Hard: the Russ Howard Story, which he co-authored with Russ Howard and Curling, Etc. He is a three-time winner of the Scotty Harper Award for the top curling story in Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

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History

Weeks grew up in Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

 but spent most summers in Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island is a Canadian province consisting of an island of the same name, as well as other islands. The maritime province is the smallest in the nation in both land area and population...

 where his family’s roots are located. A fifth-generation Canadian, Weeks’ great-grandfather was one of the founders of the first golf course in PEI. His grandfather, Major-General Ernest Geoffrey Weeks, was a highly decorated military hero who went on to become Adjutant-General of the Canadian Forces
Canadian Forces
The Canadian Forces , officially the Canadian Armed Forces , are the unified armed forces of Canada, as constituted by the National Defence Act, which states: "The Canadian Forces are the armed forces of Her Majesty raised by Canada and consist of one Service called the Canadian Armed Forces."...

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A graduate of Richview Collegiate Institute
Richview Collegiate Institute
Richview Collegiate Institute is a secondary school in Etobicoke, in the west end of Toronto, Ontario. It is in the Toronto District School Board....

 in Toronto and the University of Windsor
University of Windsor
The University of Windsor is a public comprehensive and research university in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's southernmost university. It has a student population of approximately 15,000 full-time and part-time undergraduate students and over 1000 graduate students...

(Hons. BA—Communications), he lives in Toronto with his son.
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