Hank Gola

Hank Gola spent over four decades as a journalist, primarily covering professional football and golf for the New York Daily News and New York Post after starting his career at The Herald-News of Passaic, NJ, and the Daily Record of Morris County, NJ, where he covered the Cosmos of the North American Soccer League and the New York Giants of the National Football League.

A native of Garfield, NJ, Gola graduated with a BA in history from Montclair State College in 1976. He has authored four books, most recently Ryder Cup Rivals (Tatra Press, 2025) and City of Champions (Tatra Press, 2018). Previous works were Hard Nose, (HBJ, 1987) with Jim Burt, the inside story of the Giants’ 1986 Super Bowl season and Tiger Woods, (Courage Books, 1998) an illustrated biography of the then-young superstar golfer.

Gola has collected several writing awards from the Golf Writers Association of America, the Associated Press and the Professional Soccer Reporters Association. He was most recently named the 2018 recipient of the Lincoln Werden Award for golf journalism from the Metropolitan Golf Writers Association, of which he now serves as president. He lives in Parsippany, NJ with his wife, Lillian. He has two children, Henry and Julianne, and four grandchildren, Rose, Ruby, Elliot and Iris.