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We Don't Need Another Brookline…

Even though we still have several weeks left in the PGA golf season, the “big” season effectively ended last weekend with the wrap-up event of the FedEx Cup Playoffs; The Tour Championship. And what a finish it was!  The favourites fumbled. ...

Hoist With His Own Petard

I’ll be honest with you here folks.  I’m not 100% sure what a petard is. I’m pretty sure I used to have one…but then my neighbour back in London borrowed it and never returned it to me.  Or maybe he smoked it or something? At any rate...

Armstrong v. Armstrong – One Small...

We lost a truly great one this week folks.  And we also revealed a bad one. When I was a boy, my hero was Neil Armstrong.  In fact, he still is to this day. Nothing, absolutely nothing, captured my imagination like the Apollo space program and...

Let The Puckering Begin!

Everyone who is old enough remembers exactly where they were when JFK was shot…or when the Shuttle Challenger exploded…or when the first win tower came tumbling down. I suspect everyone will remember where they were when this latest...

5-Ring Fail(?) and Wyndham in Your Sail

Well, the quadrennial competition we know and love as the Olympic Games are now in our rear view mirror, and TV coverage notwithstanding, most people seem to agree that the games themselves were a spectacular success.  Organizers of the London...

Fox Harb’r opens golf academy

  I’ve talked about Fox Harb’r, Ron Joyce’s five-star resort on Nova Scotia’s North Shore in the past (see previous blog). It is truly an outstanding, world-class property with its 18-hole, Graham Cooke designed golf course (Tiger Woods...

Kisses, Curses, Crow and Kiawah

This week’s funniest Olympics-related gag: There’s a poster circulating on the Internet, showing a flummoxed Jean-Luc Picard, sitting in his command chair on the USS Enterprise, disbelieving head in hand.  The caption underneath proclaims;...