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...
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Course Preview: Laval Sur-le-lac (Blue Course)
Course Preview: Laval Sur-le-lac (Laval, Que.) Designer: Ian Andrew and Mike Weir The Scorecard: When Ian Andrew first left...
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Golfweek releases Canadian course list
American magazine Golfweek has waded back into the Canadian ranking game, and will soon be followed by Golf Digest. Of course...
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Andrew and Weir make progress at Laval
There aren’t many golf courses being built in Canada — let alone those being tipped as potential sites for the RBC...
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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...
Fox Harb’r, Nova Scotia’s classy resort
My first encounter with Ron Joyce, a Nova Scotian and co-founder of the Tim Horton’s coffee empire, was back in the late 90s during the construction of his Fox Harb’r resort...
Off to Nova Scotia
I’m heading to Nova Scotia this afternoon, with visits scheduled to the infamously named “The Lakes” (a new Graham Cooke design near Sydney), Bell Bay and Highlands...
Back to the Future
While the sun blazed in the sky yesterday, I spent the day indoors, participating in the RCGA’sGolf Canada’s latest seminar series about golf design, a group of events co...
About Golf Series: McBroom, Carrick, Cooke, Andrew...
I’m not sure we’ve ever seen as interesting a panel on golf design in Canada as what’s been put together for the “About Golf Courses” series that takes place...
Only Two Remain: Golf Mag List Dips to Highlands, St...
The most recent issue of Golf Magazine published its Top 100 golf courses of the world and Top 100 in the U.S. Perhaps not surprisingly, there are only two Canadian courses on the list...
Canadian Golf Architecture Review: Final Designers and...
My Canadian golf architecture review was meant to show just how many designers are currently operating in Canada — a fact some were surprised by when Weir Golf Design said it...