Two golf blogs worth checking out — Duke’s Saguaro Open has such strong opinions that you’d think you were reading Going for the Green. Except, Duke doesn’t always agree with this writer, which makes him worth reading on a regular basis. Love a contrary opinion.
And one of my very favourties continues to be the Reluctant Jam Boy, the tale of a new caddy and his crazed, often terrible players. He caddies somewhere in the U.S., but the man can write and his stories are laugh out loud funny. Now if someone at his club finds out about his blog he’ll be through, but until then….
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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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