Word on Streit is she’s the best: Canadian has won all the prestigious amateur titles Robert Thompson On Golf No one recognized the self-described “grey-haired little...
Nicklaus North – Whistler BC
Back in the mid 1990’s Nicklaus North in Whistler BC hosted the Export A Skins Game. I was fortunate to be gifted two VIP passes...
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Big Sky GC – Revisited
Big Sky GC – Pemberton BC It’s been almost a year to the day that Myra and I traveled up to Whistler to play and review...
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Review: Scarboro Golf and Country Club
There’s a chance Scarboro is Canada’s most under-rated golf course. A Tillinghast design, the only one in Canada, Scaboro is a quirky, old world gem hidden in suburbia. But what...
The legend of Al Balding near the end?
I wrote this story last summer after spending an afternoon in the backyard of my friend, Al Balding. Until Knudson, Balding was probably Canada’s best golfer — surely better...
Review: Toronto Golf Club
Interesting course that few actually get to play — though it is located right across the street from Lakeview, one of the busiest golf courses in the Toronto area. Toronto is a Harry...
Rod Whitman — Canada's best architect?
I wrote this story for the Post in June — about Rod Whitman, shaper for Bill Coore, and his new golf course, Blackhawk. Wish more people saw it the first time round and I hope lots of...
Mark Parsinen to build in Inverness, Scotland
Mark Parsinen, the creator of Kingsbarns, the great links near St. Andrews, is poised to do it again, this time near Inverness. The site is to be called Castle Stuart and sounds like a...
Muirfield — Scotland's best?
An interesting article from the Scotsman on Muirfield and the amoung of income generated by golf tourism in Scotland:
Kohler buys Old Course Hotel
Found this in the Scotsman — interesting, given Kohler’s home run at Whistling Straits. New owner’s plans for Duke’s Course MIKE AITKEN HERB Kohler, the owner of...
Canada's 25 Best
I’ve been working on a list of the Top 25 courses in Canada alongside my Golf Club Atlas compatriots, Ben Cowan-Dewar, Ian Andrew and Jeff Mingay. We’ll eventually post a full...