Ten years ago Tiger Woods was just coming off defending his title at Royal Montreal, back in the day when the Canadian Open was held at the start of September. As such the Niagara Parks...
Tag - Doug Carrick
Predator Ridge's Ridge Course — Carrick's best?
The more I play design Doug Carrick’s Ridge Course at Predator Ridge, the more I’m convinced it might well be the...
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Thomas McBroom and the golf course rebound
I spoke to Thomas McBroom, the Toronto designer, on Monday. McBroom had just come from working on a project in Halifax called...
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Predator Ridge named one of top employers in Canada
Interesting to see something you don’t regularly experience in a business as transitory as golf — a resort being...
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Course Review: Summit Golf and Country Club
Course Review: The Summit Golf and Country Club (1912) Architects: George Cumming, Stanley Thompson, Doug Carrick The Scorecard: Summit is one of Canada’s true Golden Age of Architecture...
There is golf in Newfoundland: Believe It!
Beyond Atlantic Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador is likely more thought of as a province of rugged coastline, fishing and offshore oil and gas exploration. Golf doesn’t often come into the...
Course Review: Greystone Golf Club (Milton, Ont)
Course Review: Greystone Golf Club (Milton, Ont.) Designer: Doug Carrick (1991) The Scorecard: Greystone will always be a bit of a polarizing course. Some will see its long vistas and...
Golfweek Wades into the Canadian Course Ratings Game
Score and Ontario Golf already do it — and even the Globe and Mail tried it at one point — and now U.S. mag Golfweek is presenting a Top 30 Modern (post-1960) and Top 30...
The Creation of Pure Golf: Eagles Nest Book
I was putting this in my golf book collection today and recognized that I’ve never actually referenced it here. Yes, the Eagles Nest book, which I wrote early last year, came from the...
2010 In Review: The Courses
While I didn’t travel as much as I have in other years, I did get out to play some golf in the UK in April, travel through BC and Alberta in August, head to Cape Breton in September...
Course Review: The Lakes (Ben Eoin, Nova Scotia)
Course Review: The Lakes Designer: Graham Cooke Names are rarely reflective of the actual golf course, and when they are — like Ontario’s The Rock — the reflection...
When the Snow Flies
I typically golf until snow covers the ground. That could be late October, but more typically in recent years it has been about now. Since I don’t play hockey that means the trunk of...