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By Robert Thompson | August 27, 2010
I’ve been hanging on the sidelines as others discussed SCOREGolf’s biennial ratings of Canadian courses. The list is floating around several spots online after the magazine was sent out early by accident. Anyway, if you’re keen on seeing me talk about the list, I’ll be on TSN tomorrow at noon, alongside SCORE editor Bob Weeks ... read more »
Tagged: Banff Springs Golf, Beacon Hall, Canada Golf Course Ranking, Capilano Golf, Highlands Links, Jasper Park Lodge Golf, Muskoka Bay Club, Sagebrush Golf and Sports Club, SCOREGOLF Top 100 Courses in Canada, The National Golf Club of Canada |
By Robert Thompson | December 22, 2009
With golf showing for the holidays (and me tiring of writing about Tiger), I thought I’d take the time to reflect on some of my experiences in 2009.
As anyone who reads this blog knows, I have a passion for golf design and great golf courses. This year was a spectacular one for me in that ... read more »
Tagged: ancaster, bandon dunes, bandon dunes resort, British Open, Cape Breton, Highlands Links, IMG, macdonald, national golf links of america, old macdonald, pacific dunes, private club, Richard Zokol, Rod Whitman, sagebrush, ScoreGolf, St. George's, urbina |
By Robert Thompson | November 9, 2009
Someone asked me if I’d traveled much this year and I immediately replied no. Then I thought about it. Yep, a fair bit, actually. Pebble Beach, Los Angeles, Bandon Dunes and England/Wales in the spring, followed by Highlands Links and Kamloops in the summer, and finished by Long Island, NY a couple of weeks back. ... read more »
Tagged: bandon dunes, England Golf, golf travel, Highlands Links, london, long island, new golf, okanagan, old macdonald, Ontgolf.ca, pebble beach, train, travel section |
By Robert Thompson | November 9, 2009
I’ve written extensively about what is going on at Highlands Links (including a recent ScoreGolf feature that I can’t find online or I’d link to it. This post from last year has 45 comments on it, so it must have resonated with some…) Anyway, thanks to reader Greg for a photo of the trees taken ... read more »
Tagged: Canada's best golf, G4G, golf nova scotia, Highlands Links, IMG, Ontgolf.ca, ScoreGolf |
By Robert Thompson | October 24, 2009
The second year I wrote my Going for the Green column for the National Post I had the good fortune of playing a round of golf with Jack Poole, the force behind BC’s 2010 Winter Games bid. Poole was a lot of fun — interesting, humble — and we had a good time touring Capilano in ... read more »
Tagged: Cape Breton, Going for the Green, golf course, Highlands Links, Jack Poole, National Post, olympics, saskatchewan, St. George's, Stanley Thompson |
By Robert Thompson | October 7, 2009
Every year since 2005 at about this time I’ve returned for a game at Oviinbyrd, the private club that was established by Peter Schwartz, the former CEO of tech company Descartes Systems. I covered Descartes when I wrote tech for the National Post, and got to know Peter well — as well as his love ... read more »
Tagged: Course Ranking, Going for the Green, golf course, Highlands Links, muskoka, National Post, Ontario Golf, Oviinbyrd, private club, St. George's |
By Robert Thompson | September 15, 2009
The most recent issue of Golf Magazine published its Top 100 golf courses of the world and Top 100 in the U.S.
Perhaps not surprisingly, there are only two Canadian courses on the list, namely St. Georges in Toronto and Highlands Links in Nova Scotia. The spiral of Highlands Links continues, with the course dropping to ... read more »
Tagged: Cabot Links, Canadian Open, chris goodwin, Graham Cooke, harry colt, Highlands Links, Ian Andrew, IMG, Jim Furyk, Lorne Rubenstein, PGA Tour, pga tour pros, St. George's, The National Golf Club of Canada, Thomas McBroom, toronto |
By Robert Thompson | August 24, 2009
I was playing Firerock Golf Club near London on the weekend when I saw a copy of the latest ScoreGolf perched on the counter in the pro shop. This is the so-called “public golf issue,” one where Score ranks the top public golf courses in each region.
Why an issue on public golf, especially one coming ... read more »
Tagged: bob weeks, Course Rating, Dakota Dunes, fred couples, Highlands Links, muskoka, Newfoundland, Ontgolf.ca, public golf courses, Richard Zokol, Rod Whitman, sagebrush, ScoreGolf, Stanley Thompson, Tarandowah, the rise |
By Robert Thompson | June 27, 2009
I’ll do a longer, more thorough discussion of what is going on at Cape Breton’s Highlands Links, which I’m now convinced is the best course in Canada, at a later date. But the one thing I did want to show was the remarkable changes brought about by tree removal on holes 7, 9, 12, and ... read more »
Tagged: Cape Breton, Highlands Links, Stanley Thompson |
By Robert Thompson | April 24, 2009
Last year I attended a symposium on Stanley Thompson’s work that was held at Highlands Links. I had several people ask why it wasn’t better publicized and whether we’d consider doing it again. Well we are — this time in Toronto and with Lorne Rubenstein as the keynote speaker, as well as participation from another ... read more »
Tagged: Canadian Golf, canadian golf hall of fame, Cape Breton, david moote, Highlands Links, Ian Andrew, jim barclay, Lorne Rubenstein, RCGA, Robert Thompson, Stanley Thompson, Weir Golf Design |
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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