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By Robert Thompson | January 28, 2012
Ridiculously busy. That was my day one at the PGA Merchandise show. Though I found it easier to get around than I’d been led to believe — the building is massive, but somehow manageable — I still found myself running from one spot to another to make appointments. And far too often there was someone ... read more »
Tagged: Cabot Links, Scotty Cameron, TaylorMade, Titleist |
By Robert Thompson | January 24, 2012
I saw a tweet last night from Bob Weeks that suggested Charles Lorimer, the longstanding marketing and sales director, is out at ClubLink Corp. It wasn’t clear what the circumstances surrounding his departure are — and a ClubLink spokesman would only confirm that after 16 years Lorimer is gone. The spokesman says Lorimer is being ... read more »
Tagged: Bob Vokey, Clublink Corp., Mark King, Morguard, Morguard Corporation, Patrick Seward, Paul Albanese, PGA, Scotty Cameron |
By Robert Thompson | January 20, 2012
Sympatico’s Saturday Ticket feature is now live. In it I explore just how much money golf pros can see in earnings away from the course: For Tiger Woods, making $2-million on the course, as he did last year, seems like a disaster. It would barely cover the costs of his private jet, let alone the ... read more »
Tagged: Danny Fritz, Mike Weir, PGA Tour, PGA Tour tournament, TaylorMade-adidas, Tiger Woods |
By Robert Thompson | January 18, 2012
Interesting to see the latest issue of Golf World, which includes Geoff Shackelford’s survey of PGA Tour pros commenting on what their favourite courses are. Two of the three regular courses for the Canadian Open do well: Vancouver’s Shaughnessy is at #7 and St. George’s, which held the tournament in 2010, is #22. Glen Abbey, ... read more »
Tagged: geoff ogilvy, Geoff Shackelford, Glen Abbey, RBC Canadian Open, Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club, The Open Championship, the U.S. Open, U.S. Open |
By Robert Thompson | January 17, 2012
One of my favourite Kids in the Hall skits (yes, the underrated Canadian comedy troop that still gets together upon occasion) is called “Rod Torfulson’s Armada.” Essentially the skit (which you can find here) involves a teen rock band called “Armada.” The father of the drummer, Rod Torfulson, shows up at practice and chimes in ... read more »
Tagged: Doug Carrick, Dr. Martin Hawtree, Gil Hanse, Greg Norman, Hunt Club, Ian Andrew, jeff mingay, kyle phillips, Lambton G&CC, Lorne Rubenstein, Mark Mungeam, Ottawa's Hunt Club, Rees Jones, robert trent jones, Ron Forse, Thomas McBroom, tom doak, Tom Fazio, Tom McBroom |
By Robert Thompson | January 12, 2012
After hearing the news that Kelowna’s Tower Ranch is being actively shopped across Canada, I took a look to see what the state of Tobiano, the other Tom McBroom course in the area. As you’ll recall, Tobiano went into receivership last year. The Bowra Group was appointed to run the property, including the golf course, ... read more »
Tagged: Bowra, Bowra Group, kelowna, tobiano, Tom McBroom, Tower Ranch |
By Robert Thompson | January 11, 2012
Or maybe it would be better said that LPGA Commissioner Mike Whan came to Waterloo to promote the tour’s new event in that city that kicks off this year and no one was told — or at least no one that wasn’t the Waterloo Record. Yep, Whan was in Canada this week, and just hours ... read more »
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By Robert Thompson | January 10, 2012
Yesterday Golf Canada announced it was hiring Tristan Mullally of Ireland to as the coach of its women’s national team, a position vacated when Derek Ingram left to take over the same role for the men’s team. It didn’t take long for me to get emails from PGA of Canada members questioning the decision not ... read more »
Tagged: Derek Ingram, Glenn Cundari, Ireland, Jeff Thompson, PGA, PGA of Canada, the Olympics, Tristan Mullally |
By Robert Thompson | January 8, 2012
The Scorecard: Vancouver GC is one of those courses that gets overlooked. Part of it is likely because the club isn’t hugely keen on publicity, though it is hosting this year’s CN Canadian Womens Open (which could still mean it isn’t interested in publicity, I suppose). In fact, I had to talk my way into ... read more »
Tagged: British Columbia Golf, British Columbia golf course reviews, Canadian Women's Open, Tom McBroom, Vancouver golf, Vancouver Golf Club, Vancouver private golf |
By Robert Thompson | January 6, 2012
My latest Sympatico column is live, detailing how I think we could use a longer break from professional golf: Death, taxes and the PGA Tour. All three are unavoidable, never-ending forces that continue in perpetuity. Given that, it should surprise no one that the PGA Tour kicks off another season this week with the Hyundai ... read more »
Tagged: adam scott, Brit Justin Rose, Charl Schwartzel, Darren Clarke, dustin johnson, Ernie Els, golf fatigue, PGA Tour, Phil Mickelson |
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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