Book Review: Out of the Rough by Steve Williams I expected very little from Out of the Rough by former Tiger Woods caddy Steve Williams. It is easy to simply see Williams as a camera...
Author - Robert Thompson

Examining SCOREGolf’s 2016 Top 100 courses list
SCOREGolf has issued its biennial Top 100 of courses in Canada. As always it is a good conversation starter, and Editor Jason...
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Canadian Open Day two: Amateur continues to roll, DJ gets it done
He’s 21, this is his first Canadian Open, and he didn’t fold. Jared du Toit, the 21-year old amateur from BC...
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Canadian Open Day 1: Delaet’s yips return
Tough day for some Canadians playing in the wind yesterday. But none had it tougher than Graham DeLaet, whose chipping yips seem...
Read MoreGlobal Golf Post: For Henderson, coach and caddie are...
I’ve kicked off my fourth year as Global Golf Post’s Canadian correspondent. This week I wrote about Brooke Henderson, who had a fine showing in Australia. Here’s a taste...
Kids and golf: How TGA is trying to grow the game in...
This is my final take on TGA Golf, the organization that started in the US under the watchful eye of Josh Jacobs, and has come to Canada in recent years. It started as an after-school...
Chronicled: How my take on Cape Breton golf ended up...
I’ll say that as far as I know I haven’t worked at a paper with a union. Scratch that–I was part of the Niagara Falls-Review early in my career and they were unionized...
PGA Merchandise show: Shorts, the Olympics and the...
For years I was told by a colleague that I needed to come to the Orlando PGA Merchandise show. I largely ignored him, simply because I didn’t write much about equipment, something...
Summit Golf’s bold no initiation play
Some see Ian Leggatt as admitting defeat. Leggatt sees it as recognizing the future. Leggatt, the former PGA Tour winner who has run Summit, a pretty terrific private golf club north of...
Listed: Golf Digest’s latest world ranking is an...
“By all means screw their women and drink their booze, but never write one word about their bloody awful golf courses.” Henry Longhurst Though it has a Dec. 15 tag on it, Golf...
Canada’s best par 5s: The experts weigh in
It wasn’t hard for our panel to find great three-shot holes scattered across Canada, and there was some general agreement on a couple of truly genius designs, namely Stanley Thompson’s...
Canada’s Best Par 4s: The panel weighs in
There was a little consensus in picking the top two-shot holes in Canada. Other than the 16th at Cabot Links, which was picked by four of our select group, and the second hole at Highlands...