Gary D'Amato spent more than forty years as a sportswriter, the last twenty-eight at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. His assignments included eleven Olympic Games, twenty-six consecutive Masters Tournaments and three Super Bowls. He is a three-time Wisconsin sportswriter of the year, and in 2017 was inducted into the Wisconsin Golf Hall of Fame. D'Amato's writing has been honored by the Associated Press Sports Editors, Milwaukee Press Club, Wisconsin Newspaper Association and Golf Writers Association of America. He works for Killarney Golf Media, writing primarily for the website Wisconsin.Golf, and lives in Caledonia, Wisconsin, with his wife, Dee Dee.