It is hard to determine whether a great geographic setting will turn into a great golf course. That much is certainly true. The world is full of courses that should have been great given...
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Streamsong in their words: Doak and Coore talk about new Florida...
I’ve written pretty extensively about Streamsong, the ambitious new project located in central Florida, including a review...
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Course Review: Streamsong Resort (Polk County, Florida)
Course Review: Streamsong (Polk County, Florida) Designers: Red – Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw; Blue – Tom Doak...
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Sympatico: Cabot Links, the sequel
My column on Cabot Cliffs, the second course at Cabot Links on Cape Breton Island, is now live: It is safe to say no new course...
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How good is Cabot Links?
That’s the question that I left wondering about after having played it four times last week. Including the two rounds I played last year and the couple of 10-hole loops I had in July...
Mike Keiser: Interested in Highlands Links, but not...
A few weeks back it was announced that the federal government, which operates Highlands Links in Cape Breton, NS, was seeking an interested party to lease the Top 100 in the world course...
Cabot Links: A retrospective on opening
I first heard of the project that would become Cabot Links when I was at a dinner in 2004 alongside my friend Ben Cowan-Dewar and his girlfriend (later wife) Allie. The then tourism...
Bandon Dunes' Mike Keiser Talks Cabot Links
I’m just working through a feature on Cape Breton Island’s Cabot Links, the best new course I’ve seen in some time, and transcribed a recent interview I did with Mike...
A new player to the ratings game
A couple of months ago my former editor at T&L Golf (RIP) asked me about participating in a new world Top 100 panel for course rankings. I was delighted — I’ve never been...
PGA Merch Day 2: True footwear, Quagmire rocks Arnie...
Like the first day of the merch show, I spent day two jammed in meetings for the new Pro:Files magazine, the soon-to-be-released publication of the PGA of Canada. By the time I was done...
Holiday wishes for the Canadian golf business
G4G Xmas wishes – my thoughts on appropriate gifts for the Canadian golf industry: Mike Weir: A year where he’s healthy, so we can see if it is his body or his head that’s caused his...
Course Preview: Cabot Links exceeds expectations
How good is Cabot Links? I can’t seemingly go anywhere these days without someone asking me, whether it was the caddymaster at the course (a reader of this site apparently), or the guy I...