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By Robert Thompson | August 18, 2010
Part of a week-long account of my recent trip to the interrior of British Columbia and Alberta.
Course: Golden Golf Club (Bill Newis, Les Furber); Radium Springs (Les Furber); Eagle Ranch (Bill Robinson)
My drive to Radium Springs from Vernon took almost five hours, though I doubt there are many more spectacular road trips anywhere. The mountains ... read more »
Tagged: Bill Newis, British Columbia, British Columbia Golf, Eagle Ranch, Eagle Ranch Golf, Geoff Cornish, Golden Golf Club, golf course, John Robinson, Les Furber, Mountain golf, Radium Springs Golf, Steven Haggard, Whistle Bear |
By Robert Thompson | August 9, 2010
Course: The Ridge at Predator Ridge Resort
Designer: Doug Carrick
The business of building new golf courses basically ground to a halt in 2008 and has yet to recover. That’s likely why there’s been such interest in Doug Carrick’s latest – a rebuild of nine ghastly holes at Predator Ridge and the addition of nine new ones. ... read more »
Tagged: British Columbia Golf, Doug Carrick, Humber Valley, Muskoka Bay, Okanagan Golf, Predator Ridge Golf Review, Predator Ridge Ridge Course |
By Robert Thompson | August 8, 2010
Day two started much more smoothly than day one. Apparently if one is out before the early-bird special, traffic isn’t an issue in Kelowna, though the Tim Hortons may have had the busiest drive-thru in the country.
Anyway, we arrived at Tower Ranch for our 8 am tee time to find the parking lot relatively deserted. ... read more »
Tagged: Black Mountain, Brad Pelletier, British Columbia Golf, Furry Creek, Kelowna Golf, Neil Schmidt, tobiano, Tower Ranch Golf |
By Robert Thompson | August 6, 2010
Sometimes the trickiest thing of any golf trip isn’t finding the bottom of the cup, but getting to the course. I arrived in Kelowna on Tuesday morning, excited about the possibility of a return to Sagebrush Golf and Sporting Club, Richard Zokol’s fascinating course outside Merrit, a couple of hours from the airport. Though everything ... read more »
Tagged: Kamloops Golf, Kelowna Golf, Richard Zokol, Rod Whitman, Sagebrush Golf and Sporting Club, the Champions Tour |
By Robert Thompson | August 5, 2010
I’ll write more tonight when I have a chance to settle into one place for a couple of nights, but I thought I’d drop a couple of photos of what I’ve seen so far. We started at Sagebrush, playing 14 holes (alas a thunderstorm kept me from all 18) in hazy conditions from the nearby ... read more »
Tagged: British Columbia, British Columbia Golf, Invermere, Predator Ridge Resort, Richard Zokol, Sagebrush Golf and Sporting Club |
By Robert Thompson | July 22, 2010
Interesting and very busy day at a warm RBC Canadian Open. First of all, in response to the blurb I wrote about a speed trap on Islington Ave. that pulled over a van with a player in it traveling to the range, turns out that player was Paul Azinger. And one driver told me Zinger ... read more »
Tagged: Anthony Kim, Canadian Amateur Championship, Club De Golf Laval Sur Le Lac, Dave Bunker, Garry McKay, Glen Abbey Golf Club, Ian Andrew, Lorne Rubenstein, Mike Weir, Nick Taylor, Paul Azinger, RBC Canadian Open, Scott Simmons, sean foley, Sean O'Hair, St. George's Golf and Country Club, Stephen Ames, Tiger Woods |
By Robert Thompson | July 13, 2010
My latest Sympatico column is on the subject of playing St. Andrews, which I was lucky enough to do in 2003 and again a year later. Interestingly, I was suppposed to play it again in 2006 with a friend who is an R&A member. We played Kingsbarns together in the morning and planned on heading ... read more »
Tagged: augusta national golf club, Ian Andrew, kingsbarns, Old Course at St Andrews, R&A secretary, Sports, the British Open, The Open Championship |
By Robert Thompson | July 12, 2010
My fondness for links courses is well known. I’ve traveled to Scotland four times in the last decade, and flown to Ireland, England and Wales in the same period, all to seek out seaside golf. Golf without trees might seem like a contradiction to some, but to my way of thinking it is the way ... read more »
Tagged: Canadian golf links, Fox Harb'r, Nova Scotia, Osprey Valley Heathland |
By Robert Thompson | July 6, 2010
Course Review: Lookout Point
Architect: Walter Travis (opened in 1922)
Lookout Point is almost entirely unique among Canadian golf courses. From its magnificent topography to the slight greens, the course is at once a throwback as well as a modern day challenge. Either way it is tremendous fun, and one of the largely unheralded gems of the ... read more »
Tagged: Golf, golf course, Golf Course Reviews - Canada, Golf Course Reviews - Ontario, Golf Ontario, Lookout Point Country Club, Marlene Streit, Walter Travis |
By Robert Thompson | June 23, 2010
Hawtree’s bunkering is prominent on the par-3 14th.
Course Review: Toronto Golf Club
Architect: H.S. Colt
Renovation architect: Martin Hawtree
I’ve always found Toronto Golf Club to be a fascinating place, ever since I first set foot on it nearly 10 years ago. If ever there was a Canadian club that felt like it hadn’t changed in a century, ... read more »
Tagged: golf architect, harry colt, Howard Watson, martin hawtree, Toronto Golf Club |
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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