I picked up the Globe this morning to find an obituary of former Barrick Gold CEO Greg Wilkins, who died after a lengthy battle with cancer. I only met Wilkins once — playing golf...
Tag - Going for the Green
The Passing of a Golfer
I still recall quite vividly standing in the Rogers box at a Maple Leafs game about this time of year a decade ago and having a...
Read More G4G at the Toronto Golf Show
Well, it won’t be just me, but I’ll be heading down to the Toronto Golf Show in a couple of hours to interview David...
Read More Brad Pelletier, Managing Director of IMG Canada, Resigns
Brad Pelletier, the managing director of IMG Sports in Canada, and the man behind the recent business dealings of Mike Weir, is...
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Jack Poole in Going for the Green
The second year I wrote my Going for the Green column for the National Post I had the good fortune of playing a round of golf with Jack Poole, the force behind BC’s 2010 Winter Games...
Review: St. George's Preps for Canadian Open
Course Review: St. George’s Golf and Country Club (Etobicoke, Ont.) Designer: Stanley Thompson On Friday, with the weather a little frosty for mid-October, I drove down to Etobicoke...
A Return to Oviinbyrd
Every year since 2005 at about this time I’ve returned for a game at Oviinbyrd, the private club that was established by Peter Schwartz, the former CEO of tech company Descartes...
Going for the Green: Australian Takes RBC Canadian Open
I’m really, really tired from a very long day. Anyway, here’s my two columns for the final day of the RBC Canadian Open — the first, on Nathan Green’s win, and some...
Canadians on Tour; Rubenstein on the greens
Quiet week from a Canadian perspective as Mike Weir is skiing and Stephen Ames has been hanging out in Hawaii. But neither won last year — so neither is playing in the season opening...
G4G's Most Debated Topics of 2008
As the year draws to a close, it is clear 2008 will be remembered for a number of things: Tiger Woods’ dramatic US Open win and knee surgery, the US win at the Ryder Cup, Padraig...
Praise for Going for the Green Book on Canoe.ca
Canoe.ca has a fine story about my Going for the Green book courtesy of the Canadian Press. Here’s a taste: TORONTO – In a 1922 short story titled “Ordeal by Golf,”...
G4G Radio Interview Online
An hour-long interview I did a month ago with Brad Brooks in Vancouver is now posted online. The interview was specifically about my book, Going for the Green: On the Links with...