I’ll admit to having been slammed with a variety of projects I’ve been involved with lately and not writing for the blog much. In any case I’ve been meaning to do a series on the best public courses you can play from coast to...
Category - Canadian Golf Architecture Review
Course Review: Streamsong (Polk County, Florida) Designers: Red – Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw; Blue – Tom Doak Opens: December, 2012 Overview: First there was Bandon Dunes. Then there was Bandon Dunes East (Cabot Links and the...
Some unrelated notes for Monday morning: Cabot Links, the much anticipated course on Cape Breton Island created by partners Mike Keiser and Ben Cowan-Dewar, has moved the date of its soft opening from July 1 to July 22. The reason? The horrible...
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...
I was up at Angus Glen Golf Club near Markham yesterday to have lunch with my good friend,director of golf Dennis Firth. I bumped into him talking with the inimitable Kevin Thistle, top dog at all things golf that happened to be owned by Gordon...
Newfoundland’s Humber Valley Resort – the award-winning Doug Carrick course near Deer Lake – needs to lower its green fees and increase the number of rounds played in order to survive. Well I say, ‘duh.’...
Interesting to see how courses are adapting to the changing economic climate. Richard Zokol’s Sagebrush, once envisioned as a high-end, ultra-exclusive private club in B.C., has reworked its structure, done away with initiations for the...
I’ve posted several times about the newfound association between Mike Weir and Brantford golf designer Ian Andrew which was informally announced last week. Well if you want to know more, check out the feature interview Andrew did with...
My Canadian golf architecture review was meant to show just how many designers are currently operating in Canada — a fact some were surprised by when Weir Golf Design said it approached 27 Canadian designers. The truth is that these days...