SCOREGolf has issued its biennial Top 100 of courses in Canada. As always it is a good conversation starter, and Editor Jason Logan puts a lot of time into trying to create the best list. However, like any list, there are some peculiarities...
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It is hard to imagine a decade has past since I first set foot on Tarandowah. I’d driven by the property while it was under construction for a couple of years, always wondering whether the promise of a links-style course in rural...
I’ll say that as far as I know I haven’t worked at a paper with a union. Scratch that–I was part of the Niagara Falls-Review early in my career and they were unionized. Not that I noticed. But the National Post was never...
For years I was told by a colleague that I needed to come to the Orlando PGA Merchandise show. I largely ignored him, simply because I didn’t write much about equipment, something that changed over the years. Truthfully, the show remains...
Some see Ian Leggatt as admitting defeat. Leggatt sees it as recognizing the future. Leggatt, the former PGA Tour winner who has run Summit, a pretty terrific private golf club north of Toronto for the past few years, announced on Monday that...
“By all means screw their women and drink their booze, but never write one word about their bloody awful golf courses.” Henry Longhurst Though it has a Dec. 15 tag on it, Golf Digest’s world course ranking hit the web...
It wasn’t hard for our panel to find great three-shot holes scattered across Canada, and there was some general agreement on a couple of truly genius designs, namely Stanley Thompson’s incredible 7th (Killiecrankie) at Highlands Links, as well...
There was a little consensus in picking the top two-shot holes in Canada. Other than the 16th at Cabot Links, which was picked by four of our select group, and the second hole at Highlands Links, which was picked by three, no hole had more than...
Recently I saw a posting claiming to list the best 18 holes in the world, a seemingly impossible and herculean task that is always going to have a vast number of detractors. It is like picking the top courses in the world—there is some general...