Hole 2, St. George’s Golf and Country Club, Toronto 478 yards What makes it great: I’m not the first to point this out, as Tom Doak noted the greatness of the second par four at St. George’s Golf and Country Club in his Confidential Guide to golf courses. What’s unique about the second — ... Full Story »
I’ve decided to take a look at some of Canada’s great golf holes in a series of posts over the next couple of weeks. This started with a note from someone connected to Beacon Hall yesterday who suggested I didn’t think there were any standout holes on the course, which is not in fact the ... Full Story »
When not battling over the quality of Blue Springs, I’m a busy writer these days. This morning my latest Global Golf Post column, on the situation involving the new LPGA tournament in Waterloo, is live: Richard Kuypers is convinced the inaugural Manulife Financial LPGA Classic will be a success. And he’s confident despite a series ... Full Story »
I caught up with Stephen Ames for the first time since last year’s Canadian Open for a feature I was working on and also got him to talk about missing the Players Championship for the first time since he won it in 2006. Ames didn’t qualify this year and his exemption into the tournament has ... Full Story »
Blue Springs Golf Club (Acton, Ont.) Designer: N/A – John Brison, who was involved in the Old Hide House in Acton seems to have had some involvement in creating Blue Springs, but it is tough to find documentation on that. Overview: Does absence really make the heart grow fonder? Or do you look at ... Full Story »
Two weeks back I had an interesting conversation with Mike Weir for a feature I’m working on about the 20th anniversary of the Skins game. As is often the case with Weir, that conversation led to other things and inevitably questions about how he’s doing. The answer — struggling, and I’d suspect that’s still the ... Full Story »
Course Review: Le Portage (Cheticamp, NS) Designers: Bob, David Moote and Terry Burns The scorecard: Le Portage has often been billed as part of the top four courses in Cape Breton, but to my way of thinking it was always a bit off on its own. Located on the west coast of Cape Breton Island, ... Full Story »
Rosedale Golf Club (Toronto – 1919) Designer: Donald Ross (and various including Bob Cupp, Doug Carrick and John Fought) Overview: Rosedale is like a debutante heading towards a graduate degree. In other words it is known more for being the haunt of Toronto’s blue bloods, an elite, inner-city course that obscures its urban surroundings. But ... Full Story »
I forgot to mention my columns in GlobalGolfPost last week and again today. Last week I wrote an update to the situation involving the Canadian Tour: The Canadian Tour has a lifeline and Rick Janes plans to make the best of it. At the end of last year Janes, the commissioner of the Canadian Tour ... Full Story »
American magazine Golfweek has waded back into the Canadian ranking game, and will soon be followed by Golf Digest. Of course ScoreGolf has long done their own list — so there’s lots to compare. Golfweek, interestingly, breaks its lists down into “modern” (post-1960) and “classic” (everything else), so there are actually two lists — starting ... Full Story »
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