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...
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My story on RBC’s involvement in golf appeared this week in Golf World this week, discussing how important 2012 is to the bank. The bank’s deals all end in 2012, though the Canadian Open and Heritage are both signed to go through to...
Or maybe it would be better said that LPGA Commissioner Mike Whan came to Waterloo to promote the tour’s new event in that city that kicks off this year and no one was told — or at least no one that wasn’t the Waterloo Record...
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...
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...
Golf Canada is, kind of surprisingly, struggling to find enough competitors to make its regional RBC Canadian Open qualifying work. In past years all qualifying was done in Ontario — and it was always full. This year there was a regional...
In one of the most ridiculous things I seen in Canadian golf circles in a while, Golf Canada’s site is running a story saying Luke Donald will play the RBC Canadian Open, but only kind of. Instead of confirming what everyone knows —...
A week or so ago I had a half hour to talk with Mike Whan, commissioner of the LPGA for a feature I was working on. Whan, a former golf equipment executive at TaylorMade, was brought on board the LPGA in 2009 after the sudden firing of former...
The RCGA held its annual meeting this past weekend, electing its first female president. Of course what wasn’t mentioned was a $4.58-million loss in 2010, added to the $3.66-million the organization lost in 2009. Yes that’s $8.25-million in the...