Interesting to see Grant Fraser’s Golf Management Institute of Canada ink a deal with Laurier University. The deal allows continuing studies students to take an online program in golf...
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Big Dogs and Wicked Sticks — 2012 golf gear
One of the great perks of writing about golf is getting to test out the latest equipment. For the last three years I’ve...
Read More Humber Valley Resort Sold Out of Receivership
It didn’t get much notice outside of Newfoundland, but one of the best courses to be built in recent memory has come out of...
Read More Another Course for Niagara?
Reader Tom sent me this clip from the Welland Tribune about the potential for another high-end golf course in Niagara Falls, even...
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Mitchell G&CC: Water Use Fine "A...
A few weeks ago a G4G reader sent me a note about a fine of $25,000 to Mitchell G&CC near Stratford for “excessive water use.” Here’s the short blurb that appeared in...
Even Pat Burns Knows the Truth About Tiger
Or at least that’s what he told a Montreal radio station. Apparently a “friend” of Burns, the former Maple Leafs coach, told him the “true” inside story of...
Toronto Golf Club: When is it a Restoration and When...
Earlier this year I reported on the “restoration” that Martin Hawtree was undertaking at Toronto Golf Club. It had been billed as a restoration by a prominent member at Toronto...
Tiger Woods Hoax E-Mail — How Far Has Mainstream...
I got it — and if you’re a golf fan, or know someone with e-mail, you probably got it too. You know what I’m talking about — the e-mail detailing “the inside...
Going for the Green: Wilkins Was Mining Star
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...
Sympatico Column: DeLaet's Wild Ride to the PGA...
Been busy writing about Canadian golf lately, though it is December and it was damned cold taking my garbage to the curb this morning. Anyway, I touched base with Graham DeLaet on Monday...
Turmoil at Lora Bay; Humber Valley Sold; Niagara-on...
Okay, no Tiger Woods content in this one. One of the more intriguing courses to open in Ontario in the last few years, and once T&L’s Best New Golf Course in Canada, the Raven at...
Sympatico Column: On course or off, Woods is news
My latest Sympatico column deals with the public relations disaster that is Tiger Woods at the moment and whether the public should be expected to turn a blind eye to the whole affair.The...