By Robert Thompson | March 4, 2010
Well worth watching this video interview with Steve Williams, Tiger Woods’ bag carrier, with New Zealand’s version of 60 Minutes. Is it just me or is he even more unlikable in this interview than ever?
In other news, Woods is back at Isleworth hitting balls. I’d be very surprised if he doesn’t show up at Bay Hill ... read more »
Tagged: Jack Nicklaus, PGA Tour, Tiger Woods |
By Robert Thompson | December 10, 2009
Surprising it has taken this long, but Jack Nicklaus has sort of commented on the Tiger Woods fiasco. How many women are now supposed to have slept with Tiger? Sixteen including a couple of porn stars? When did this guy have time to practice? Hank Haney told me Tiger was usually at the gym by ... read more »
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By Robert Thompson | January 3, 2009
My copy of Golf Digest showed up on Dec. 31 and included the list of the game’s best paid players. I’m sure you can’t guess who is No.1, but there at #18 is Mike Weir, with $5 million in off-course earnings. That’s 10 spots above his last ranking…
And for the record, Stephen Ames, who made ... read more »
Tagged: Mike Weir |
By Robert Thompson | October 7, 2008
Eighteen months ago I took a couple of flights to Vancouver Island to meet with Jack Nicklaus and discuss
the $600-million Wyndansea project, a high-end gof development on the west side of the island near Ucluelet. I wrote a Q&A with Jack stemming from my interview there that was published in Score Golf (some quotes can ... read more »
Tagged: British Columbia Golf, Jack Nicklaus, Score Golf, Wyndansea |
By Robert Thompson | October 11, 2007
The most recent Score magazine has a Q&A with Jack Nicklaus (which I can’t locate online) that was conducted over two interview sessions earlier this year. Rather than talk to Jack about his Masters wins, or the role of fatherhood in Tiger Woods’ golf career, we spoke about golf design, and his evolution from ... read more »
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By Robert Thompson | April 24, 2007
Since Jack Nicklaus compared Wyndansea, the course he is developing in Ucluelet, BC, to those on the Monterrey Peninsula — namely Pebble Beach and Cypress Point — I thought G4G readers might enjoy a peak at what one of the best holes looks like.
As is becoming standard, the club “created” one hole to entice potential ... read more »
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By Robert Thompson | April 23, 2007
My National Post column on Jack Nicklaus in Ucluelet, B.C., is now accessible. You can find it here.
Here’s a taste:
UCLUELET, B.C. – Bombing along in an all-terrain vehicle over rough and rocky ground, the greatest player to ever hit a golf ball hardly looked like an imposing figure. At 67, Jack Nicklaus no longer resembles ... read more »
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By Robert Thompson | April 22, 2007
Jack Nicklaus doesn’t play golf any longer. Or at least not often, and not very well. That’s his admission — not mine. I haven’t seen Nicklaus play since his final round at St. Andrews, and the legend told a media gathering yesterday in the remarkable setting of Ucluelet on Vancouver Island’s west coast that he ... read more »
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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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