Chip Bird was keeping a low profile at the dedication ceremony for the statue of Stanley Thompson that was being unveiled at Highlands Links on Sunday. Bird, the field unit...
Tag - Nova Scotia
Course Review: Cabot Cliffs (Inverness, NS)
Review: Cabot Cliffs (Inverness, NS) Designer: Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw Overview: Cabot Cliffs is the most exciting and...
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Course Review: Streamsong Resort (Polk County, Florida)
Course Review: Streamsong (Polk County, Florida) Designers: Red – Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw; Blue – Tom Doak...
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Will Cabot Cliffs exceed Cabot Links?
It is hard to determine whether a great geographic setting will turn into a great golf course. That much is certainly true. The...
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Arriving at Cabot Links
Highlands Links: The comeback isn't quite complete
Can you call it a comeback? Four years ago when I arrived at Highlands Links in Ingonish, NS, I was staggered. Sure it still had the key elements that have made it Stanley Thompson’s...
Union: Back those that will keep Highlands Links...
The union that represents the workers at Highlands Links wants the government to make potential operators who will offer jobs to the maintenance crew, according to the Chronicle-Herald:...
Government seeks lease deal for Highlands Links and...
Interesting that just as the restoration of Highlands Links nears completion, the Federal government and the Nova Scotia provincial government have announced they are seeking an operator...
Rod Whitman — the best unknown golf course...
No one at Wolf Creek seems to recognize Rod Whitman, or maybe they have no idea that the quiet man in his fifties hitting slight draws off the mats near the clubhouse is perhaps Canada’s...
Course Review: Le Portage (Cheticamp, NS)
Course Review: Le Portage (Cheticamp, NS) Designers: Bob, David Moote and Terry Burns The scorecard: Le Portage has often been billed as part of the top four courses in Cape Breton, but to...
PEI courses back up for sale — government...
Interesting story out of Prince Edward Island, where the provincial government is still trying to get out of the golf business (source): The provincial government is once again trying to...
Eyes on Nova Scotia
There seems to be a lot of golf media focused on happenings in Nova Scotia. No wonder with events like the opening of Cabot Links in late June and the Telus Skins Game in late July, just to...