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By Robert Thompson | November 10, 2011
Thanks to John Daly for upstaging Steve Williams as golf’s biggest moron for the past week. Anyway, for those still interested in Williams, this week’s column in Sympatico Sports addresses the issue of Tiger Woods’ former mouthy bag carrier: Steve Williams might be insensitive. He might be a twit who speaks before he thinks. ... read more »
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By Robert Thompson | October 28, 2011
As if there was really any question, I suggest in my latest Sympatico column that indeed, Luke Donald isn’t just the best player in the world, but the best on the PGA Tour as well! Who knew? Luke Donald is the PGA Tour’s player of the year. In fact, over the past year he’s been ... read more »
Tagged: Jack Nicklaus, Luke Donald, PGA Tour, tom watson, Webb Simpson |
By Robert Thompson | October 22, 2011
Symaptico launched a Saturday feature a month or two back and my second attempt has just gone live. For this one I spoke with Mike Weir, Adam Hadwin and David Hearn about the state of Canadian golf. Six PGA Tour pros from Canada started the year — only Hearn finished in the Top 125, though ... read more »
Tagged: Aaron Baddeley, Canadian Professional Golf Tour, David Hearn, Fredrik Jacobson, Mike Weir, RBC Canadian Open, Stephen Ross |
By Robert Thompson | September 29, 2011
My weekly Sympatico column is now live: You know the world has changed when the selection of Tiger Woods to the U.S. Presidents Cup team is more controversial than team captain Fred Couples’ decision to fill out his roster with FedEx Cup winner Bill Haas. Yesterday Couples announced what would appear obvious to most – ... read more »
Tagged: bill haas, Brandt Snedeker, fedex, fred couples, PGA Championship, Tiger Woods |
By Robert Thompson | September 25, 2011
My latest column, this one on the FedEx Cup, went live on Sympatico on Thursday: It may no longer be the FedEx Flop, but the conclusion to the PGA Tour’s four tournament playoff still underwhelms. This week the PGA Tour finishes its playoff in Atlanta with the Tour Championship, 30 golfers vying for the title ... read more »
Tagged: FedEx Cup, Luke Donald, Matt Kuchar, PGA Tour, Webb Simpson |
By Robert Thompson | September 7, 2011
My weekly Sympatico column is now up, and this week includes a video interview with golf archtect Ian Andrew. What more can you hope for from free media? Contrary to at least one media report, I found Highlands to be in fine shape this year, with greens that were vastly improved from a couple of ... read more »
Tagged: Highlands Links, Ian Andrew, Nova Scotia, Stanley Thompson |
By Robert Thompson | August 17, 2011
This week’s column for Sympatico on Tiger Woods’ continued slide is now live: Imagine Tiger Woods ranked 50th in the world. It’s easier than you might initially think. After a disastrous PGA Championship, and an average WGC Bridgestone event the previous week, Woods, for the first time in his career, really doesn’t have a place ... read more »
Tagged: PGA Championship, PGA Tour, sean foley, Tiger Woods |
By Robert Thompson | August 4, 2011
I’m on holiday this week, hanging with the kids and away from the golf course (though I did sneak in one round at Tarandowah…). In the meantime I wrote about Tiger Wood’s return to golf for Sympatico. If you want to read the column, it is here, otherwise here’s a taste to entice you to ... read more »
Tagged: Achilles’ tendon injury, Jack Nicklaus, Phil Mickelson, The Masters, WGC-Bridgestone Invitational |
By Robert Thompson | July 30, 2011
My preview of Cabot Links, along with a video interview shot with both co-creator Ben Cowan-Dewar and designer Rod Whitman, is now on the home page on Sympatico — thus lots of eyeballs are seeing it. The video is embedded in the story — and here’s a taste of the full piece (the full story ... read more »
Tagged: Ben Cowan-Dewar, Cabot Links, cape breton island, Nova Scotia,Canada, Rod Whitman |
By Robert Thompson | July 11, 2011
I’m still in Ottawa for the 100th anniversay celebrations of the Canadian PGA (read about Day One and Two here), but I’ve had the chance to write a column for Sympatico on Royal St. George’s, the course I played while doing a tour of English golf by train a few years back. Apparently there’s not ... 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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