Well, so much for the weekend weather hitting the high 20s in April to usher in an early start to the golf season. Even if it’s still a tad brisk outside, the courses are open (at least in...
Author - James McCarten

Apparel 2017: Dad-bods, fear not
Next time you’re idly scrolling through the channels (people still do that, right?) and you come across one of those “classic”...
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Hot, Hot Heat: Best Golf Course Swelter-Wear
Hot enough for you? You may think we’re through the worst of it, but the weather experts are saying that summer’s far from over...
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Oh, Shirt: Filling Out the 2016 On-Course Wardrobe
“It is better to look good than to feel good,” Argentinian film star Fernando Lamas was famously credited with saying. Golfers...
Read MoreTour-pro cameos add star power to Butch Harmon DVD
It’s timeless golf instruction: pay close attention to the fundamentals. Butch Harmon seems like a guy who takes his own advice. Though he has other prominent students in his stable...
Gearing up for 2012’s opening round
It’s genuinely difficult to believe, but here it is the first full week of March, just seven days removed from the Toronto Golf and Travel Show with the Masters — the Masters! — still three...
Your New Year’s Resolution: Sail to Cabot Links
It’s hard to know for sure, but the twinkle in Ben Cowan-Dewar’s eye — the one that would take nearly eight years to grow into Cabot Links, the brightest light to adorn the Canadian golf...
It’s not Easy (or Cheap) being Galvin Green
A golfer who’s only in it for the Saturday-morning sunshine and the hot dog combo at the turn has probably never heard the name. But it’s a safe bet that the heavy-weather, who-cares-about...
Quagmire Golf lures the young ones with kaleidoscopic...
As the youngest son of a golf-mad dad, I know a thing or two about the lengths to which a father will go to get his kids out on the course. And while you can accomplish quite a bit with...
Getting the Shaft: The Brave New World of After-Market...
They don’t call it the engine of the golf club for nothing. Titanium heads, removable weights and spring-loaded clubfaces nothwithstanding, the shaft really is where all the magic...
Put Some Punch Back in Your Game
The RBC Canadian Open will be one of the few places this week where you are likely to see headcovers bearing the colours and logos of major club manufacturers – after all, the vast...
Gear Review: Prep for Spring with the Sunice Olie...
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the 2011 Canadian Golf Season. OK, so that may be a bit premature in many parts of Canada — certainly here in the seat of government power in Ottawa...