This week’s Sympatico column is now online. Here’s a taste: Golf is now an Olympic sport for the first time since 1904. Sure there’s no course appropriate in Rio de...
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Kisses, Curses, Crow and Kiawah
This week’s funniest Olympics-related gag: There’s a poster circulating on the Internet, showing a flummoxed Jean-Luc Picard...
Read More Weir's Words: "Selfishly" wants Woods back, expects...
I haven’t posted anything on a conference call with Mike Weir last week, largely because I’ve been busy banging out a...
Read More 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...
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Olympic Golf Goes Forward
Golf received it Olympic approval this morning: After an absence of more than a century, golf will return as an Olympic sport in 2016 and 2020 along with rugby sevens following their...
What Yang's Win Means for Golf and the Olympics
Talk about compelling viewing — Y.E. Yang’s win against Tiger Woods going down the stretch yesterday was one of the most fascinating bits of golf I’ve seen since Woods...
NatPost Column: A Certain Type of Golf Should Be In...
I missed it, but last Friday my column on golf and the Olympics appeared in the National Post. You can find it here. However, given space considerations, the column was cut significantly...