Thursday witnessed some big crowds following an obviously relaxed Mike Weir at Glen Abbey. Interestingly Weir is usually a bit wound up at this event, but yesterday he seemed easy going and relaxed, hitting fairways and firing at pins. After...
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Aside from talking about shooting the lights out at the National Golf Club of Canada, Mike Weir also spoke with the media yesterday, talking about his experience of coming back to Glen Abbey four years after his heart-breaking playoff loss to...
Last week I spent some time on the phone with Mike Bennett and Andy Plummer, the two swing teachers behind the so-called “stack and tilt” theory. The pair will be at Bond Head north of Toronto next Friday for a paid clinic. I...
This week’s National Post column is up, discussing why Michelle Wie has been given an exemption into the field. It is partially due to an abundance of exemptions — 16 in all — and partially because of her John Daly-like appeal...
[photopress:canadians.jpg,full,alignright]My latest National Post column, or at least 550 of the 900 words I wrote, appears in today’s paper. Since Edward Scissorhands had a go at this one, I’m putting up the whole unedited column...
Today’s National Post column, on the Wayne Gretzky Classic in the Collingwood area, is now online. Here’s a taste: It is the tale of three golfers. There is Chris Baryla of Vernon, B.C., considered a rising star in Canadian golf...
My latest National Post column, based on an interview with David Feherty, is now online: David Feherty isn’t used to being silenced. He is quick with a smart remark or a verbal jab whenever the opportunity presents itself on a CBS golf...
I had a chance to catch up with Mike Weir on the phone late last week to talk about his putting lesson from Steve Stricker, the fact he’s changed golf balls (to the shorter ProV1 with more spin) and his chances at this week’s US...
Yesterday was a day of driving. Up at six, out the door 45 minutes later. Two and a half hours later, and one Timmy’s double-double, I pulled up at the doors of the Georgian Bay Club in Collingwood. Fifteen minutes later Wayne Gretzky...