Fairway Stevie

A look at the world of golf from a public player's perspective.

Course Reviews

Downtown Toronto gets a quality golf experience

If you start with a great product and treat your customers with respect and then follow that up with focused marketing, success is assured. Success is just around the corner for Inner Golf. There’s a new game in town. That’s downtown. In amongst the warehouses in the King West village is a low slung building ... read more »

Say Hello to an Old Friend – Return to Oakridge

It had been a couple of weeks since I had played a round a golf and my family and I had just returned home from our white water rafting adventure on the Ottawa River. I loaded up the car with my Callaway`s and headed to Royal Ashburn in Whitby. The weather was beautiful and my ... read more »

Boring Golf?

Oh god, please don`t let me sound jaded saying this but yesterday I played one very boring golf course. It`s called Grand Niagara Resort, Spa and Golf by Rees Jones. It certainly wasn`t grand. There was no resort. There was no spa. And, if this is what you get from the noted U.S. Open Å“doctor ... read more »

A First Look At Black Diamond Golf Club

A few weeks ago I headed up to Peterborough to play Kawartha. About halfway up the 115 on the left hand side a golf course I had never seen before suddenly appeared. On Sunday morning I got my first look at the Black Diamond Golf Club in Pontypool. Black Diamond is a terrific course but ... read more »

18 Great Holes – The Back 9

Here is part two of my fantasy golf course made up of my favourite holes in Ontario: Hole 10 – Timber Ridge #4 “ Par 4 I will wax enthusiastically about all of Timber Ridge some other week but today I proclaim this hole as the opening of our back 9. The layout of this ... read more »

18 Great Holes – The Front 9

I am an avid public golfer in Ontario and will sometimes drive up to 2 hours to play a new course I`ve heard great things about. I play an awful lot of rounds throughout the season and it sure ain`t cheap but, I have seen plenty of great golf holes so I thought that I`d ... read more »