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Notes on Gary’s Top 50 Courses in...

Lists of golf courses TOP 50, TOP 100, TOP 10 are all conversation starters. No one will agree with every list. GOLF DIGEST, GOLFWEEK, SCORE, CANADIAN GOLF MAGAZINE and TOP100 all have different criteria, and often shared course raters, and...

St. George's Golf and Country Club 1st hole

Gary’s Top 50 Golf Courses in Canada...

Lists of golf courses TOP 50, TOP 100, TOP 10 are all conversation starters. No one will agree with every list. GOLF DIGEST, GOLFWEEK, SCORE, CANADIAN GOLF MAGAZINE and TOP100 all have different criteria, and often shared course raters, and...

Examining SCOREGolf’s 2016 Top 100...

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...

A decade of Tarandowah

  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...

Where to play in Canada: Whistler

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...

Listed: Golf Digest’s latest world...

“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...

Canada’s best par 5s: The experts...

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...

Course review: Cypress Point

Course Overview: Cypress Point Club (Pebble Beach, California) Designer: Alister Mackenzie Writer’s note: This overview was written several years ago. I repost it given the recent comparisons between Cypress and Cabot Cliffs.  One...

Is Cabot Cliffs the modern Cypress Point?

The question posed by Ron Whitten in Golf Digest is whether Cabot Cliffs the modern version of Cypress Point. His answer seems to be an emphatic “yes.” The sense of awe and discovery was so intense. And the best was to come, for the...