Feature Interview with Andrew Harvie

[Ran Morrissett]

Feature Interview with Andrew Harvie - Golf Club Atlas

As GolfClubAtlas turns 25 years old, Ben Cowan-Dewar, Joe Andriole and I realized that we needed fresh blood to modernize GolfClubAtlas and to drive new content. To that end, GolfClubAtlas.com has merged with the Canadian site Beyond the Contour, which was founded by Andrew Harvie in 2021. Andrew, age 26, is one year older than the web site and I first contacted him almost a year ago.

After numerous conversations, I became convinced that he was the right person to partner with on a go-forward basis. This month’s Feature Interview serves to introduce him and to talk about some of the changes coming to GolfClubAtlas in the near term. I am keeping this intro brief as crowing about all the future exciting things that will be happening is a sure way to jinx things. Nonetheless, I have every reason to believe that the content that GCA produces in the next 25 years will be even better/more influential than the first 25 years. Only time will tell but, in the meanwhile, please welcome Andrew on board.
 
Best,
 

[Will Thrasher]

Welcome Andrew! Enjoyed reading the interview and excited for the future while maintaining the ethos that has made this place what it is.

[Thomas Dai]

Thanks guys. Long live GCA. Looking forward to the future.
Atb

[Charlie Goerges]

Great choice, Andrew is young, energetic, and thoughtful!

[Michael Chadwick]

Wonderful! Congratulations, Drew.

[mike_malone]

Eh

[Marty Bonnar]

Oh, crap!
Some of us Old & Crusty’s are seriously going to have to up our games.

[Matt Schoolfield]

Kudos to everyone involved. It's an exciting series of changes!

[Niall C]

Oh, crap!
Some of us Old & Crusty’s are seriously going to have to up our games.

Surely that's not an issue for a hipster like you (see what I did there  )


Niall

[MCirba]

Hey Andrew,


Looking forward to you and Zac here in more substantial roles.   Good on you guys!

[Mike Nuzzo]

Congratulations Andrew! ..... and Ran, Ben, & Joe

[Ira Fishman]

All well and good. And flattered to be quoted in the interview. But I read this as Ran stepping way back (he has earned it). I can read course reviews pretty much anywhere. Even as a relatively new poster, it is the DG that makes this place special. What are the plans for it?


Thanks.

[Andrew Harvie]

Thank you ALL for a warm welcome! I've been on GCA for four years, but paid attention to the website far longer than that. I'm excited to fully dive in and really immerse myself here. It's an exciting time!

All well and good. And flattered to be quoted in the interview. But I read this as Ran stepping way back (he has earned it). I can read course reviews pretty much anywhere. Even as a relatively new poster, it is the DG that makes this place special. What are the plans for it?


Thanks.

Ira, you make some good points with the Discussion Group being what makes GCA special, and I agree. We're working through it and have been trying to make improvements and upgrades (which some have commented on in other threads) to the Discussion Group and website simultaneously while adding new content. All are important, and all are a focus group.


As for Ran, I don't want to speak on his behalf but he is not stepping away from GCA (especially not way back). I'm not here to take Ran's spot, I'm here to compliment what he's already built and round out the offerings. This is still Ran Morrissett's website, and it will always be.

[Ira Fishman]

Andrew,


Thank you for taking the time to respond. And as my post that you quoted indicates, I do think refreshing the articles, reviews, and interviews is a good development in large part because it might drive engagement on the DG. So I appreciate hearing that you plan on enhancing and focusing on the DG.


Ira

[Simon Barrington]

Andrew, or do you prefer Drew?

Best of luck and I'm sure it will be a great project for you.

One thing as a newbie I think the DB (Discussion Board) needs to have is ease of posting Photos.
So we don't have to leave our cosy place of safety and open debate (assuming that is what it is, as sometimes that can be questionable!  ).

Cut & Paste or Drag & Drop don't mind, but I am (and from what I read others too) not a tech expert so the interface needs to be intuitive.

Sharing pictures is the key to great dialogue and debate, when we talk so much about visuals.

Cheers!

[PCCraig]

Welcome! GCA is a special place. Great to see the investment in the platform.


Just realizing that I've been reading GCA since nearly the beginning, and posting for about 20 years? Crazy how time flies.

[Will Thrasher]

Small suggestion, but in the redesign I noticed that the 147 Custodians no longer has its own place on the top banner. While I can see where it fits under "golf courses" I think it deserves its own category as the ethos that drives so much of what GCA is about.

[Matt Schoolfield]

I'm happy to go down the rabbit hole in the Simple Machines Forum docs if y'all need any assistance. Just give me a shout.

[Evan Fleisher]

It was great to meet you this week, Andrew...looking forward to great(er) things to come!