LAS VEGAS, Nev. - The winds of media change are howling like a mild day on a west Texas golf range. GolfObserver.com, in a well-researched article by Sal Johnson, documents and laments the loss of the golf beat writer. Welcome to the new media. As Mark Nessmith, editor and COO of the WorldGolf.com Network, wrote in an e-mail alerting me to the story, “My take would be that, as newspapers lay off writers, other outlets (online) will in time pick up the slack.” He’s right. (But editors are always right.) Golf beat writers will exist. They just won’t write for major dailies ...