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By Robert Thompson | May 17, 2010
While the sun blazed in the sky yesterday, I spent the day indoors, participating in the RCGA’sGolf Canada’s latest seminar series about golf design, a group of events co-sponsored by the Stanley Thompson Society. Rarely, I think, have we seen such a gathering of top names, including Doug Carrick, Graham Cooke, Stephen Johnston, Ian Andrew, ... read more »
Tagged: Canadian Golf, Canadian Golf design, Courses, Doug Carrick, Golf architecture, Golf Canada, Graham Cooke, Ian Andrew, Lorne Rubenstein, Mike Weir, Weir Golf Design |
By Robert Thompson | April 6, 2010
Last year, Weir Golf Design architect Ian Andrew attended the Masters with his business partner. On Sunday Ian had the unique opportunity to walk the course while Weir played with his brother, Jim. All the photos in this post are from that trip, with Ian presenting a unique look inside the ropes at Augusta. I ... read more »
Tagged: Canadian Open, Golf architecture, Golf Design, Ian Andrew, Mike Weir, The Masters, Tiger Woods |
By Robert Thompson | November 2, 2009
It is always a real pleasure to get a chance to meet and speak with the best in the business — regardless of whether we’re talking high-finance, technology, entrepreneurism or, in this case, golf. With that in mind, I was very pleased to meet Bill Coore, half of the Coore/Ben Crenshaw design team, while on ... read more »
Tagged: bandon dunes, bandon dunes resort, coore, crenshaw, golf architect, Golf architecture, golf course, Golf Design, Jack Nicklaus, kingsbarns, long island, old course, pacific dunes, Rod Whitman, tom doak, urbina |
By Robert Thompson | July 21, 2009
OntGolf.ca managed to scoop up two prizes at the inaugural Golf Journalists of Canada awards luncheon today at the fantastic St. George’s G&CC. I took home two awards — one for an obituary of Brampton caddie Steve Duplantis that appeared in the Globe and Mail last spring in the newspaper feature category, and another for ... read more »
Tagged: bond head, British Open, clublink, Golf architecture, Golf architecture in Canada, Golf Design, jim barclay, Nike, RBC, TaylorMade, The Club at Bond Head |
By Robert Thompson | May 11, 2009
Course Review: Woking Golf Club (Surrey, England)
Designer: Tom Dunn
It has been said that Scotland gets all the love when it comes to golf, but depth in terms of courses belongs to England. It is hard to argue with, even if you just look around the London area. My recent trip had multiple options — ranging ... read more »
Tagged: draycott, Golf architecture, sloane square, sunningdale golf club, surrey england, tom dunn |
By Robert Thompson | April 14, 2009
Another good golf blog, Punch Bowl Golf, has hit the web, this one by Will Smith and Colin Sheehan, both actively interested and involved in golf design. They are spending a fair bit of time investigating some of the world’s best courses, both in text and pictures and in video. Well worth checking out.
In the meantime, we caught up ... read more »
Tagged: Gil Hanse, Golf architecture, golf course design, Golf Design, old macdonald, tom doak, tom lehman |
By Robert Thompson | April 1, 2009
I’m still touring around for one more day at Bandon Dunes, and hope to blog about Old Macdonald, the resort’s fourth course, tomorrow. In the meantime, there’s a new website for Weir Golf Design. And shock of shocks, Ian Andrew has returned to blogging on the site. It can be found here. The site isn’t ... read more »
Tagged: Golf architecture, Ian Andrew, Mike Weir, Weir Golf Design |
By Robert Thompson | January 21, 2009
My Canadian golf architecture review was meant to show just how many designers are currently operating in Canada — a fact some were surprised by when Weir Golf Design said it approached 27 Canadian designers.
The truth is that these days, given market conditions, some will be pretty quiet, possibly for a few years to come. ... read more »
Tagged: bond head, Canadian Golf, Canadian golf architecture, Coppinwood, Darrell Huxham, Golf architecture, Graham Cooke, Mike Weir, Nigel Hollidge, PGA Tour, Richard Zokol, Rod Whitman, Turnberry, Weir Golf Design |
By Robert Thompson | January 16, 2009
Since December, I’ve been working though my series on all of the Canadians working in the golf design field. There’s a surprising number of designers working — and a handful doing truly exceptional work.
However, it will be interesting to see how many survive the economic slowdown, which had already compounded the general slowdown in the ... read more »
Tagged: Cabot Links, Canadian Golf, Canadian golf architecture, Doug Carrick, Golf architecture, Golf Design, Rod Whitman, Thomas McBroom |
By Robert Thompson | January 12, 2009
One of the final installments in an ongoing series.
Steven Ward
Years in industry: 27
Best Course: Timber Ridge GC (Brighton, Ont.); Trillium Wood GC (Belleville, Ont.)
Quote: “I’m not exactly a big city guy. I suppose a lot of clients want a guy who is in Toronto and won’t consider you if you’re not. But that’s just ... read more »
Tagged: belleville, brighton, Canadian Golf, Canadian golf architecture, Golf architecture, Ontgolf.ca, Steven Ward golf designer, timber ridge, top 100 golf courses, top 100 golf courses in canada |
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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