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By Robert Thompson | March 5, 2009
Course Review: Spyglass Hill (Pebble Beach, Calif.) Designer: Robert Trent Jones There is no doubt that Spyglass Hill is one of the more polarizing courses in the World Top 100. When I told my playing partner that it was among the elite on the planet, he scoffed. “No way,” he told me. “I don’t think ... read more »
Tagged: california golf, pebble beach, robert trent jones, spyglass hill |
By Robert Thompson | February 26, 2009
Course Overview: Pebble Beach Golf Links (Pebble Beach, California) Designer: Jack Neville and Douglas Grant. Interestingly, while it is difficult to actually write a review of Cypress Point, it is much easier to debate the merits of Pebble Beach. For one thing it is public, though with a green fee of nearly $500, it is ... read more »
Tagged: arnold palmer, pebble beach golf, Royal Dornoch, Turnberry |
By Robert Thompson | February 15, 2009
While I’m prepping for a trip to LA to visit TaylorMade’s facilities this week and hang out at the Northern Trust Open on Tuesday, I’ve posted some more travel and architecture articles over on our travel site. Go here to read my take on Florida’s East Coast and Ocean Hammock, and here to read an ... read more »
Tagged: kingsbarns, kyle phillips, northern trust, ocean hammock, Scotland, TaylorMade |
By Robert Thompson | March 29, 2007
[photopress:tobacco_rd2.jpg,full,alignleft]I guess from the headline you might have a sense of where I am. Flew into Raleigh, N.C. today and though it had dropped 15 degrees overnight and there was rain in the air, we drove a half hour to the Mike Strantz-designed Tobacco Road, a golf course with as many supporters as detractors. Those ... read more »
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By Robert Thompson | February 11, 2006
I’ve only walked the course, though it looked pretty stunning to me. Many feel Pebble Beach only sports greatness along the ocean holes. Ron Whitten, Golf Digest’s architecture critic, used to be one of them. Now he’s changed his opinion. But then I played Pebble again, and came away doubting my own prior judgment. I ... read more »
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By Robert Thompson | October 30, 2005
I’ve had the good fortune to play Merion twice. If I play it two dozen times, I’ll never tire of seeing these:
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By Robert Thompson | October 1, 2005
I’ve had the good fortune to play Pine Valley twice — once is an experience of a lifetime. Twice is just good luck. There is hardly a point in making much of a comment on the course — how do you comment on what is generally regarded as near golf perfection? — so I’ve decided ... read more »
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By Gary Slatter | June 14, 2005
Two stories with my byline appeared in a special US Open supplement today. Here’s the first: The best – and toughest National Post Tuesday, June 14, 2005 Byline: Robert Thompson Source: National Post To most, Pinehurst No. 2 is the masterwork of Scottish architect Donald Ross. Public golfers pay up to US$375 to be beaten ... read more »
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By Robert Thompson | May 21, 2005
There’s an interesting story in a magazine called Fairways and Greens about Tom Fazio’s new Las Vegas design called “Wynn Golf Club,” after the ego-maniac who developed the course and funded the earlier creation of Shadow Creek. The result is a course on a tight piece of property (130 acres), that is big on flash, ... read more »
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By Robert Thompson | April 29, 2005
Look up in the air! It is a bird. No, it is a plane. No, it is Bandon Trails, the most hyped golf course in the world. This time T&L Golf has done a bang up job on Bandon Trails, the new Bill Coore/Ben Crenshaw course soon to open in Oregon, alongside the excellent Pacific ... read more »
Tagged: bandon trails |
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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