My latest Sympatico column, on the failure of basically any of Canada’s male PGA Tour pros to play well (with the exception of David Hearn), is now live: With six Canadian men teeing...
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Canadians at Q School: What about Hill and Taylor?
Richard Scott. Andrew Parr. Dustin Risdon. Brad Fritsch. Mike Mezei. All got through the first part of the PGA Tour’s...
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ScoreGolf Top Public Courses Show
Last week I joined ScoreGolf managing editor Jason Logan to tape the magazine’s television special highlighting the best...
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Tiger's Injury Worse Than Initially Suspected, Steinberg Leaves...
An interesting day to be Tiger Woods. First he tried to blackmail reporters at a press conference for the AT&T National into...
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Sympatico Column: Assessing the Six Canucks on Tour
My latest Sympatico column is generating some discussion, apparently because I’ve been deemed too negative by readers. Oh well. Realistically if half of our six on tour are back with...
Ames, Barlya, Pressel Join Wasserman
As expected, Stephen Ames has left IMG for Wasserman Media Group, the agency that launched in Canada when sports agent Chris Armstrong left IMG late in the summer. Former tour pro Ian...
Kingston's McQuillan Makes Improbable Rise To PGA...
Just got off the phone with Kington, Ont.’s Matt McQuillan, who remarkably played his way onto the PGA Tour only a couple of years after giving up professional golf altogether...
Chris Armstrong Leaves IMG, Wasserman to Sign Nick...
IMG’s Chris Armstrong, the Canadian player agent to the likes of Stephen Ames, Anthony Kim and Chris Baryla, has left the agency to start up Canadian operations for the Wasserman...
CanOpen to Laval, Coppinwood or Devil's Pulpit?
The Globe’s Lorne Rubenstein raises some interesting possibilities when talking about where the Canadian Open may go after 2011 when it is at Shaughnessy in Vancouver. The piece...
Canadian Tour Releases Study on "Pro Gap"
So the Canadian Tour has released a study documenting the so-called “pro gap,” that comes after Canada’s top golfers turn professional. The objective seems to be...
DeLaet, Baryla Head to the Weekend
Graham DeLaet is in the mix this week in Houston. Perhaps thats not that big of a surprise “ I think a lot of people expected the Weyburn, Sask. native to do well and he did at the...
G4G Mailbag: Daly Show, Foley's Followers
I’ve been busy covering a conference this week, but I’m back at the blog now, catching up on some loose ends and actually thinking of digging my clubs out of hibernation this...