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By Robert Thompson | June 11, 2011
RT’s Note: In the past I’ve always done my course reviews as essays. This season I’m going to try to put more of a structure to them. This is the first of several upcoming, including Summit, Devil’s Pulpit, Oshawa, and Greystone, while later in the month I’ll write about Bell Bay, Le Portage and get ... read more »
Tagged: Bell Bay, Glen Abbey, Granite Golf Club, green site, Heron Point Golf Links, Thomas McBroom, Tom McBroom |
By Robert Thompson | February 7, 2011
Since my list of “dumb blondes” generated such enthusiasm and venom, I’ve decided on another couple of blogs on lists. Today’s is the 10 best courses built since 2000 (in no particular order), and tomorrow’s will be the 10 worst, yet highly-ranked, courses. * Humber Valley — Doug Carrick’s gem in Newfoundland has struggled through ... read more »
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By Robert Thompson | February 4, 2011
Ian Andrew has done an interesting job of listing the best in Canada over on Golfclubatlas.com — the best par 5s, par 4s, courses, routings, etc. Worth checking out here. It is essentially a Canadian version of the back pages of Tom Doaks’ Confidential Guide to Golf Courses. Anyway, being a working architect and sensitive ... read more »
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By Robert Thompson | December 20, 2010
While I didn’t travel as much as I have in other years, I did get out to play some golf in the UK in April, travel through BC and Alberta in August, head to Cape Breton in September and see some of NY and Connecticut in October. Here are the highlights from 2010: All Alone ... read more »
Tagged: bandon dunes, Ben Eoin, bernard darwin, Connecticut,United States, Doug Carrick, Fishers Island, Gary Browning, Gil Hanse, Graham Cooke, Inverness, Lambton Golf and Country Club, Mike Keiser, Nova Scotia,Canada, the Ryder Cup, Tom Dunne |
By Robert Thompson | November 18, 2010
Course Review: Lambton Golf and Country Club Original designer: Willie Dunn Redesign: Rees Jones and Keith Evans Review: Lambton G&CC It is often hard not to have expectations of a course even before you’ve seen it. The designer on a project, and his history of previous work, colours what you anticipate. The advance comments of ... read more »
Tagged: Canadian golf course reviews, Keith Evans, Lambton Golf and Country Club, Peter Farmer, Rees Jones, Willie Dunn |
By Robert Thompson | October 26, 2010
I’ve been in NY for a couple of days, doing a great tour that has so far included Knollwood, Quaker Ridge, Yale and today at Fishers Island. Yale has been the real surprise of the trip — a remarkable golf course that is on a massive scale. How it isn’t in the Top 50 in ... read more »
Tagged: Fisher, Fisher Island, Fishers Island, Winged Foot Golf Club, Yale, Yale University |
By Robert Thompson | October 12, 2010
Review: Priddis Greens G&CC (Priddis, Alberta) Architect: Bill Newis, Gary Browning Sometimes even a really solid golf course goes largely unrecognized. Most times it is because (like Twin Rivers in Newfoundland, for instance) its location is remote, or that it gets little buzz (take Kawartha in Peterborough in that case). I’d put Priddis Greens ... read more »
Tagged: Bill Newis, Bob Cupp, Calgary Private Golf Clubs, Calgary,Alberta,Canada, Gary Browning, Golf, James Beebe, Priddis, Priddis Greens Golf and Country Club, Ron Hood, Ron Laugher |
By Robert Thompson | September 15, 2010
Course Reviews: Greywolf (Panorama, B.C.) — Doug Carrick Banff Springs (Banff, Alberta) — Stanley Thompson Greywolf is a course of extremes. Maybe that’s why people don’t pay that much attention to it. Doug Carrick, for example, thinks it is his most overlooked course. I’ll admit the first impressions aren’t great. On the opening holes one ... read more »
Tagged: Banff Springs golf course, Banff Springs Hotel, British Columbia, British Columbia,Canada, Doug Carrick, Golf Course Reviews, Greywolf, Greywolf Golf Course, Rod Whitman, Stanley Thompson |
By Robert Thompson | September 7, 2010
Course: Goodwood Golf Club Designer: Martin Ebert and Tom Mackenzie (see preview of Goodwood from 2007) It is a course without a name, a track that was first played by some in 2007, but has remained basically off-limits to everyone else for the past three years. It has seen hundreds of rounds – not thousands ... read more »
Tagged: angus glen, Canadian Golf design, Donald Steel, Goodwood Golf Club, Gordon Stollery, Martin Ebert, Nigel Hollidge, The Blackwell Grange Golf Club, Tom Mackenzie |
By Robert Thompson | August 30, 2010
SCOREGolf unveiled their Top 100 Courses in Canada on TSN on Saturday, but don’t be heading to your local club in hope of picking up a copy of the magazine. This year the publication is only available on newsstands — and I’m not sure if the magazine is putting content up online. There are a ... read more »
Tagged: British Columbia,Canada, Cataraqui, Chris Baryla, Cobble Beach, Cobble Beach Golf Links, Doug Carrick mountain, Georgian Bay Club, Glen Abbey, Humber Valley, Mt. Kidd, Muskoka Bay, Ron Garl, Salmon Arm, ScoreGolf, Stephen Ames, taboo, Tarandowah Golfers Club, The National, Twin Rivers |
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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