2012
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By Robert Thompson | May 18, 2012
Last year I did a series of Friday mini-reviews of products I’ve been sent or things I’ve tried that I really enjoyed. I’m hoping to continue it this year. RocketBallz. Yesterday I had the good fortune (there’s no other way to look at it) to play St. George’s on a perfect day with the course ... read more »
Tagged: Hirzl, McCarrol, RocketBallz, Sligo, TaylorMade |
By Robert Thompson | May 16, 2012
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 — ... read more »
Tagged: St. George's Golf and Country Club, Stanley Thompson, The National, tom doak |
By Robert Thompson | May 16, 2012
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 ... read more »
Tagged: Beacon Hall, Beacon Hall's, Bob Cupp, golf course |
By Robert Thompson | May 14, 2012
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 ... read more »
Tagged: Manulife Financial Corporation, Matthew Parkinson, Richard Kuypers, sean foley, Tiger Woods |
By Robert Thompson | May 10, 2012
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 ... read more »
Tagged: Stephen Ames, The Players Championship |
By Robert Thompson | May 8, 2012
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 ... read more »
Tagged: Blue Springs Golf Club, John Brison |
By Robert Thompson | May 4, 2012
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 ... read more »
Tagged: Mike Weir |
By Robert Thompson | April 30, 2012
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, ... read more »
Tagged: Cabot Trail, david moote, Highlands Links, Nova Scotia, Terry Burns |
By Robert Thompson | April 24, 2012
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 ... read more »
Tagged: Bob Cupp, Donald Ross, Doug Carrick, John Fought, Rosedale Golf Club |
By Robert Thompson | April 23, 2012
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 ... read more »
Tagged: foley, justin rose, PGA Tour, Rick Janes, sean foley, the PGA Tour, Tiger Woods |
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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