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The magazine Golf Digest decided to focus on college golf for a portion of its AugustSeptember, 2005 issue. It ranked the top collegiate programs (regardless of division) in three categories: "Golf First," "Academics First," and "Balanced." Williams earned the [http://www.golfdigest.com/features/index.ssf?/features/gd200509collegegolf11.html/ 10th place spot] in the "Academics First" ranking, edging out 11th place Harvard and far ahead of 24th place Amherst. In addition to this recognition, the magazine chose to highlight the typical life of a golfer at a several schools. Along with Division I, Division II, powerhouses Wake Forest and Division III school. For Division IIISouthern Cal, they looked to Williams, and where Coach Pohle quickly recommended they follow around Matt Slovitt for a day. In addition to having a reporter trail Matt from class to the golf course to parties, Golf Digest hired a famous photographer to put together a photo essay of the team. [http://www.jamesrexroad.com/ James Rexroad] arrived in Williamstown straight from Colombia, where he had spent a week photographing "the most dangerous neighborhood in the world" for National Geographic. The week he spent with the Williams golfers was a little different: James photographed and played [[beirut]] with Matt, ate at the Forge with Nick and Brendan, then hopped a flight to Florida with the team and spent some time thrift-store shopping with Zach. The resulting pictures and [http://www.golfdigest.com/features/index.ssf?/features/gd200509collegegolf7.html/ article in Golf Digest] gave the Williams program a nice bit of national exposure.

   http://www.golfdigest.com/features/index.ssf?/features/gd200509collegegolf7.html For any students of Italian at Williams, the writeup even made it into the Italian version of the magazineIl Mondo Del Golf, as reprinted below.