When we think of personal comebacks we often think of a professional athlete who had to give it “one more try” like Mohammed Ali or Michael Jordan, closer to home it might be the likes of BC Lions head coach Wally Buono, who just can’t seem to...
Category - Going for the Green
Thoughts and writing on the world of golf and golf course architecture.
Arrowsmith Golf and CC “GOLF AS ITS MEANT TO BE” Situated about 10 minutes north of Qualicum Beach, BC on Vancouver Island is an 18 hole golf course that covers all the bases. In this day and age of 7,000 yard long golf courses and...
There are many ways that people are introduced to this wonderful game we all labor at. Like many golfers, I was introduced to golfing by my dad who took up the game in the early 1960s while he was stationed at Sea Island in Richmond, British...
Next time you’re idly scrolling through the channels (people still do that, right?) and you come across one of those “classic” tournament reruns from the 1990s, you might be tempted to ask yourself: what happened to all that extra fabric? You...
Canadian golfer Adam Hadwin shot 59 in the third round of the Careerbuilder Challenge in La Quinta, California. With his incredible round Hadwin becomes the eighth player to shoot 59, and the first Canadian to do it in a PGA Tour event. Hadwin...
It is with a heavy heart that I share with all the readers the passing of a really beautiful human being, Ward Stouffer who had a very respectable career in the CPGA in many capacities. He was a tour player for many years on the old CPGA Tour...
It was a great summer for golf and tourism in Nova Scotia and in particular Cape Breton Island. The slide of the Canadian dollar and the Trump Bump helped boost the number of golfers and tourists to the Island. For those of you not...
Whitney Oaks G.C. – Rocklin, CA Well our week away in Northern California was to end at another reputable course and what made it especially exciting for Myra and me was the reaction we received previous to playing Whitney Oaks from other...
It isn’t very often I would justify a drive of almost an hour to play a round of golf unless of course you lived in such an isolated remote area you had no other choice. That wasn’t the case with our golf day at Yocha Dehe GC. We actually...