By Robert Thompson | June 6, 2011
Some unrelated notes for Monday morning: Cabot Links, the much anticipated course on Cape Breton Island created by partners Mike Keiser and Ben Cowan-Dewar, has moved the date of its soft opening from July 1 to July 22. The reason? The horrible spring hasn’t really created enough warm weather to grow grass. Cabot was supposed ... read more »
Tagged: Cabot Links, Canadian Golf Courses, Graham Delaet, Highlands Links, Mike Weir |
By Robert Thompson | May 30, 2011
Word has it that Mike Weir has jettisoned long-time swing coach Mike Wilson yet again. Weir, who has made a single cut this year after being injured for the second half of last year, has apparently sought out Butch Harmon to take a look at his swing, making a call to Harmon last week. Last ... read more »
Tagged: Butch Harmon, David Leadbetter, Eugene Wong, Golf Canada, Jack Nicklaus, jim flick, Matt Hill, Mike Weir, mike wilson, Nick Taylor, PGA Tour, Randy Smith, RBC Canadian Open, Tiger Woods, weir |
By Robert Thompson | April 11, 2011
Hard not to stay glued to your big screen when five golfers are tied for the lead heading into the back nine at the Masters and you only have five minutes of commercials every hour. Just about sports heaven, I’d say. In the end, Charl Schwarzel took what I’d characterize as the most exciting Masters ... read more »
Tagged: adam scott, Charl Schwartzel, Jason Day, Masters Tournament, Mike Weir, The Masters, Tiger Woods |
By Robert Thompson | March 28, 2011
Interesting to see Mike Weir talking with The Globe’s Lorne Rubenstein about how his move away from Mike Wilson wasn’t working (I wonder how he came to that conclusion…) and that he’s back working with his former swing coach for a third time: “I’m looking at Augusta as one tournament in a building process. I’m ... read more »
Tagged: David Leadbetter, Lorne Rubenstein, Mike Weir, mike wilson |
By Robert Thompson | March 11, 2011
Let me start by welcoming you back to CanadianGolfer.com. We have been experiencing some issues with spam bots in recent weeks, and just as we were finalizing a move to a new server, our existing one decided to give up the ghost. That left our system admin team struggling to make the move over to the ... read more »
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By Robert Thompson | January 19, 2011
My latest Sympatico column covers the return today of Mike Weir to the Hope, the first PGA Tour event he’s played since last August. What to expect? Likely not that much. The Hope is a shootout, and the winners usually go very low. Weir has been off basically for six months. I wouldn’t expect him ... read more »
Tagged: Mike Weir, PGA Tour, the Toronto Sun |
By Robert Thompson | January 12, 2011
My latest Sympatico column is generating some discussion, apparently because I’ve been deemed too negative by readers. Oh well. Realistically if half of our six on tour are back with full playing privileges next year, that will be a success. Here’s a taste: Never has there been so much Canadian talent on the PGA Tour. ... read more »
Tagged: Chris Baryla, David Hearn, Golf, Graham Delaet, Matt McQuillan, Mike Weir, PGA Tour, Professional golf tours, Stephen Ames, the PGA Tour |
By Robert Thompson | January 11, 2011
Been sitting on this one for a while, but kudos to Lorne Rubenstein for breaking the news (that the club should have put out months ago, I’ll add) that Laval, the private club outside of Montreal, will rebuild one of its two courses with the redesign becoming the first project by Mike Weir and Ian ... read more »
Tagged: Golf Canada, Ian Andrew, Laval, Lorne Rubenstein, Mike Weir, PGA Tour, Quebec, the PGA Tour |
By Robert Thompson | January 6, 2011
Just got off a conference call with Mike Weir, whose well-reported injury of his elbow forced him to shut his golf season down in September. Weir announced he has a new caddie — veteran Pete Benderwho has worked with Greg Norman, Jack Nicklaus and Raymond Floyd. Weir split with longtime looper Brennan Little late last ... read more »
Tagged: Brennan Little, Greg Norman, Jack Nicklaus, Mike Weir, Pete Bender, Raymond Floyd |
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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