Jerry Tarde is the Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Golf Digest, and the Chairman and Editorial Director of Golf Digest Publications, which also includes Golf World and Golf Digest INDEX.

Mr. Tarde has been the chief editor at Golf Digest for 25 years, growing the circulation of the world’s leading golf publication to 1.65 million and expanding its international affiliates to 30 editions. During his tenure at the company’s editorial helm, Golf Digest has remained its category leader.

He’s attracted some of journalism’s most-celebrated writers to the magazine as contributing editors, including Thomas L. Friedman, Dave Anderson, David Owen and John Feinstein. Mr. Tarde also has signed the greatest players in golf history—Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Annika Sorenstam—to exclusive contracts.

Mr. Tarde and the team of writers he assembled have won more than 100 Golf Writers Association of America awards and have earned five National Magazine Awards nominations. Golf Digest won a Silver Gavel Award in 1989 from the American Bar Association for a series Mr. Tarde edited about discrimination at private golf clubs. The award is given annually to media and subjects in the arts who have been exemplary in fostering the American public's understanding of the law and legal system. The series also led Mr. Tarde to become one of the National Minority Golf Symposium’s founders.

Prior to graduating from Northwestern University's School of Journalism in 1978, Mr. Tarde joined Golf Digest as an intern and became Assistant Editor soon thereafter. He became Associate Editor in 1979 and Senior Editor in 1982. In 1984, at age 28, Mr. Tarde was named Editor of Golf Digest.

In 1990, Mr. Tarde was named Vice President of the New York Times Magazine Group, Golf Digest's former umbrella company, and assumed the role of Editorial Director in 1998. Advance Publications acquired the magazine group in 2001, and Mr. Tarde was named Chairman of the newly named Golf Digest Companies.