By Robert Thompson | December 30, 2005
Interestingly, I’ve had at least one reader note they bought one of Michael Bamberger’s books after I mentioned it on my sight a week ago. Tonight I finished This Golfing Life, which I’ve been plugging away at for regular intervals over the last few nights and afternoons.
The book, like all of Bamberger’s writing, is full ... read more »
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By Robert Thompson | December 30, 2005
Crusing online today and found the two short blurbs I wrote for the January issue of T&L Golf are now online. I’m not sure I’ve mentioned this before (though it is likely I have), but I’m contributing Canadian coverage to the publication, which has beefed up its focus on travel and destinations.
Anyway, the two pieces ... read more »
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By Robert Thompson | December 30, 2005
The greatest golfer ever to play the game hits his thirties today. Yes sir, the prodigy is all grown up — Tiger Woods is 30.
Better than Nicklaus? Let the debate begin. Interestingly, the Scotsman was out last night (gotta love the five hour head start) with a story detailing the difference 10 years has had ... read more »
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By Robert Thompson | December 28, 2005
While seemingly every news source on the Internet is using the period between Christmas and New Years to rehash things that happened from January to December in an endless series of lists, there is still the glimmer of golf news. Among the stories out there is the split between the Nationwide Tour and the Canadian ... read more »
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By Robert Thompson | December 27, 2005
Many of you won’t immediately recognize the connection between Australian billionaire Kerry Packer and golf. But Packer, kind of a version of Rupert Murdoch that wasn’t as well known outside Australia, owned and operated Ellerston, one of the most exclusive golf courses in the world. He died yesterday at the age of 68.
Ellerston, created by ... read more »
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By Robert Thompson | December 25, 2005
I feel old. It is strange that one should sit in one’s living room on Christmas morning, surrounded by my sister, wife and baby daughter, and feel this way, but that’s the reality of the situation.
Why? Oddly enough, it is because of a gift.
My wife presented me with a copy of Michael Bamberger’s This Golfing ... read more »
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By Robert Thompson | December 24, 2005
Happy Holidays to all! I’m going to take a couple of days off and will return on the 27th. At that point I’m going to start discussing the future of this site, do some 2005 best of lists and start talking about golf in 2006.
Have fun with your families, and be safe.
Robert
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By Robert Thompson | December 23, 2005
There’s an amazing story of love, devotion and golf in the Wall Street Journal today. It is well worth reading, and here’s a taste to get you to click on the link:
By KATHERINE ROSMAN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNALDecember 23,
2005; Page W1
Like almost anybody who has picked up a golf club, my stepfather ... read more »
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By Robert Thompson | December 23, 2005
Thanks to Geoff Shackelford for finding Phil Mickelson’s comments on the state of the tour. Interestingly, Mickelson seems to be in favour of forcing PGA Tour players to play a certain number of events. Phil’s sharp enough to recognize sponsors might actually be willing to pay more if he and Tiger show up in Milwaukee ... read more »
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By Robert Thompson | December 23, 2005
There’s an interesting headline in the Scotsman: Woods puts family life before Tour duties. In fact, Tiger, who spent much of the year complaining about the length of the PGA Tour schedule, mananged to play four events after that never ending ordeal finally finished. The Scotsman story makes a couple of interesting points, including this:
Not ... read more »
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A bestselling author and award-winning columnist, Robert Thompson has been writing about business and sports, and particularly golf, for almost two decades. His reporting and commentary on golf has appeared in Golf Magazine, the Globe and Mail, T&L Golf and many other media outlets. Currently a columnist with Sympatico.ca and Ontario Golf, and a contributing writer to ScoreGolf, his blog, Going for the Green, was launched in 2004. 
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