RT’s Note: I’ve had several good chats with Colin McDougall while sitting at London’s Hunt Club or in a nearby Starbucks in recent months. Like most conversations I have people in the golf business, the situation inevitably leads to a...
Category - Canadian Amateur Golfers
Fascinating to see the continued split over the anchored putter debate, with the PGA of Canada issuing a note to the USGA about it and making that note public (full disclosure — I edit two magazines for the PGA of Canada). The PGA of...
There’s lots written today about the National Allied Golf Association’s study on the behaviour of Canadian golfers. It is the third survey I can recall in recent years about the sport, following a 2009 that showed golf in Canada was...
Golf Canada held its AGM over the weekend in Montreal, and released its annual report at the same time. Always interesting reading, there are some items worth noting both on the positive and negative sides: Membership: Two years ago, GC ED...
Yesterday Golf Canada announced it was hiring Tristan Mullally of Ireland to as the coach of its women’s national team, a position vacated when Derek Ingram left to take over the same role for the men’s team. It didn’t take...
The Golf Journalists Assocation of Canada today announced their players of the year. I’m not truly in agreement with Adam Hadwin getting the nod, though I understand why he’d have support. I still think it is hard to argue against...
Richard Scott. Andrew Parr. Dustin Risdon. Brad Fritsch. Mike Mezei. All got through the first part of the PGA Tour’s grueling qualifying school, perhaps the last year that golfers from places like the Canadian Tour can play their way to...
Symaptico launched a Saturday feature a month or two back and my second attempt has just gone live. For this one I spoke with Mike Weir, Adam Hadwin and David Hearn about the state of Canadian golf. Six PGA Tour pros from Canada started the...
Longtime Canadian national men’s team coach Henry Brunton announced yesterday that he is leaving the organization: Brunton, who joined Golf Canada’s High Performance Program 1999, has led the Men’s National Amateur Team to success both...