I’d never met Tom Doak — at least until last week. Sure I’d spoken to him on the phone, gone back and forth by email, and even received a signed copy of the Confidential...
Tag - Bill Coore
Conversations with the best: Coore, Whitman and the CGSA conference
The day after coming back from Calgary, I mentioned my dinner with golf designers Bill Coore and Rod Whitman to my friend Ian...
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Course review: Redtail revisited (Union, Ont.)
Course Review: Redtail GC (Union, Ont.) Architect: Donald Steel (1991) Previous review from 2008. Overview: Hard to...
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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 Opens: December, 2012 Overview: First there was Bandon Dunes...
Will Cabot Cliffs exceed Cabot Links?
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...
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...
Interview: Pete Dye on Kiawah, long par fours and how...
In March, when I was on holiday at Teeth of the Dog, I had the good fortune to run into Pete Dye, without question the most famous golf architect currently in the business (at least who...
Rod Whitman — the best unknown golf course...
No one at Wolf Creek seems to recognize Rod Whitman, or maybe they have no idea that the quiet man in his fifties hitting slight draws off the mats near the clubhouse is perhaps Canada’s...
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...
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...