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By Robert Thompson | June 8, 2010
Canadian Open Preview
St. George’s Golf & CC
Consider this not so much a review or preview, as a photo essay shot during my round at St. George’s last week.
For starters, the course is in exceptional condition, with thick rough that was dense, but not overly long. Apparently it will be grown and then cut back.
Some notes ... read more »
Tagged: Golf, Keith Bartlett, Nathan Green, PGA Tour, RBC Canadian Open, St. George's, St. George’s Golf and Country Club, Stanley Thompson, the PGA Tour |
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 27, 2009
This weekend in Brights Grove , Ont., a little suburb of Sarna, Mike Weir will enter the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame at the age of 39. I’m heading down with Ian Andrew, Weir’s design partner. It’ll be the second HOF induction I’ve attended, having given the introduction speech for Jim Barclay two year’s ago ... read more »
Tagged: bob weeks, Canadian Golf, canadian golf hall of fame, Canadian Open, golf industry, golf writer, Ian Andrew, jim barclay, Mike Weir, northern trust, PGA Tour, Richard Zokol, St. George's |
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 18, 2009
Course Review: St. George’s Golf and Country Club (Etobicoke, Ont.)
Designer: Stanley Thompson
On Friday, with the weather a little frosty for mid-October, I drove down to Etobicoke for a round at St. George’s Golf and Country Club, which will host next year’s RBC Canadian Open. Though I’ve written about it extensively (including a chapter in my book, ... read more »
Tagged: bunkering, Course Ranking, Going for the Green, RBC Canadian Open, St. George's, St. George's Golf and Country Club, Stanley Thompson, tom doak |
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 23, 2009
I’ve written for Ontario Golf — or OG as it is known — since 2001 when Ted McIntyre took the position of editor and launched the publication. Today OG announced its fifth biennial Top 50 ranking, which apparently includes a Top 100 online.
The website is pretty thorough, including a Top 50 throughout the five ... read more »
Tagged: angus glen, Coppinwood, golf course, muskoka, National Post, Ontario Golf, Oviinbyrd, Robert Thompson, St. George's, Tarandowah, The Rock |
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 | April 27, 2009
Course Review: Royal St. George’s
Location: Sandwich, UK
I’ve played all over Scotland, tried some of the best in Ireland, but until last week I had never played in England. That would change with Royal St. George’s, the first of my tour of English courses by train. The concept was relatively simple — with my wife working ... read more »
Tagged: British Open, london, muirfield, st. andrews, St. George's, train |
By Robert Thompson | June 28, 2008
Lorne Rubenstein has a good column on the selection of St. George’s for the 2010 Canadian Open. Among those he spoke with were Ian Andrew, the golf designer who conducted the restoration of the club’s bunkering a number of years ago. Andrew is effusive in his praise of the course:
“The one thing I can say ... read more »
Tagged: Canadian Open, Ian Andrew, St. George's |
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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