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By Robert Thompson | July 24, 2011
Yesterday was once again a pretty busy day, with vandalism to one of the greens, lots of people, and a split field designed to get all of the players off the course by 3 pm pacific, so the television cameras could catch all the action. The story of the day was Abbotsford, BC’s Adam Hadwin. I wrote about him for ... read more »
Tagged: Adam Hadwin, Jason Logan, John Daly, Matthew Parkinson, Pat Fletcher, RBC Canadian Open, Scott McCarron, Scott Pritchard |
By Robert Thompson | July 23, 2011
You don’t see it very well on this photo from this morning — and I’ll try to get a better one once the players have gone through — but the 8th green at Shaughnessy, where the Canadian Open is being held, was hit with some sort of corrosive substance. It appeared that around 4 am ... read more »
Tagged: RBC Canadian Open, Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club |
By Robert Thompson | July 23, 2011
Spent yesterday running around trying to catch as many groups as possible. Covering Thursday/Friday at the RBC Canadian Open is a real challenge — there’s so much going on and I’m covering the event by myself, unlike the local papers that have a team of reporters. I managed to walk a bunch of holes with ... read more »
Tagged: Adam Hadwin, Brett Saunders, Cam Cole, Canadian Mike Weir, Chad Campbell, David Hearn, Luke Donald, Matt McQuillan, Mike Weir, Paul Goydos, PGA Tour, RBC Canadian Open, Richard Zokol, Stephen Ames, Wes Gilbertson |
By Robert Thompson | July 22, 2011
The big issue of day one at the RBC Canadian Open was the difficulty of the long rough at Shaughnessy Golf and CC, and the resulting high scores. It was interesting to see the differing opinions on the challenge of the course. The rough, which was supposedly topped to 4 inches on Wednesday night, still ... read more »
Tagged: Luke Donald, Matt Kuchar, Mike Weir, RBC Canadian Open, Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club |
By Robert Thompson | July 21, 2011
Lots of media this week on the Canadian Open, even if the media facilities at Shaughnessy are as quiet as I’ve ever experienced in 13 years of coming to Canada’s top tournament. I’m busy at Sympatico, including a video interview with Rickie Fowler, and a discussion of the course and field. I also spoke to David Hearn, ... read more »
Tagged: Brad Zeimer, Mike Weir, Stephen Ames, the Calgary Sun, Vancouver Sun, Wes Gilbertson |
By Robert Thompson | July 20, 2011
Yesterday was spent at Marine Drive Golf Club where the Golf Journalists Assocation of Canada had its annual awards lunch and golf tournament. I won two second place showings — one for this story on RBC’s involvement with golf on Sympatico.ca and a second for a magazine feature I did on Moe Norman and the ... read more »
Tagged: Andy Plummer, Lorne Rubenstein, Luke Donald, Marine Drive Golf Club, Mike Weir, RBC Canadian Open, Richard Zokol, Sagebrush Golf and Sporting Club, Stephen Ames, The Open Championship, Tiger Woods, U.S. Open |
By Robert Thompson | July 18, 2011
I’m writing for Sympatico this week at the Canadian Open, and kick off coverage with a story on the course — Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club. It is a genuinely very good course — probably in the Top 20 in Canada. It will also disappear in two decades, which makes for an interesting turn of ... read more »
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By Robert Thompson | July 18, 2011
My flight arrived in Kelowna on Saturday morning where I joined a group of golf writers for a tour of BC’s terrific trio of interior courses — Predator Ridge, Tobiano and Sagebrush. Interesting to run into Mike Grenier, the developer behind Tobiano. I guess I didn’t expect him to be anywhere near the development since ... read more »
Tagged: Jim Little, RBC Canadian Open, Ron Joyce, Shaughnessy Golf, Tim Hortons |
By Robert Thompson | July 15, 2011
The final field for the RBC Canadian Open was announced tonight and includes some big stars — oh, and John Daly. That said, Retief Goosen is obviously on the bubble after pulling out of the British Open and Canadian hopeful Graham DeLaet sounds like he’s preparing to shut it down for the year, according to ... read more »
Tagged: Brandt Snedeker, RBC Canadian Open, Retief Goosen, U.S. Open |
By Robert Thompson | July 14, 2011
On Saturday I catch the early flight to Kelowna for a couple of days of a FAM Trip to Predator Ridge, Tobiano and Sagebrush before taking the bus to Vancouver for the RBC Canadian Open. I’ll be reporting all week for Sympatico there, plus adding things to the blog along the way. It’ll be interesting ... read more »
Tagged: RBC Canadian Open, Richard Zokol, Sagebrush Golf, Shaughnessy Golf, Tobiano Golf |
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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