Fourteen years ago I had just finished journalism school and was writing a weekly hockey column for the Hamilton Spectator. My girlfriend, now wife, had just started working with a...
Tag - PGA Tour
Adam Hadwin shoots 59
Canadian golfer Adam Hadwin shot 59 in the third round of the Careerbuilder Challenge in La Quinta, California. With his...
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Book review: Steve Williams’ Out of the Rough
Book Review: Out of the Rough by Steve Williams I expected very little from Out of the Rough by former Tiger Woods caddy Steve...
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Course review: Glen Abbey Golf Club
Course review: Glen Abbey GC (Oakville, Ont. — 1976) Architect: Jack Nicklaus Overview: It has held a boatload of Opens...
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Q School kicks off this week — seven Canadians...
My interview with Adam Hadwin a week or so ago was quite intriguing. Hadwin says he’s not trying to put too much pressure on himself as he knows he has a place to play — the Web...
Sympatico: Despite his stumbles along the way, Fritsch...
My latest Sympatico column went live this morning. It features an interview with Brad Fritsch, the latest Canadian member of the PGA Tour, having cracked the Top 25 on the Web.com...
Does adding the PGA Tour logo to the Canadian Tour...
I think the answer to the question is no. On its premise, the announcement that the PGA Tour was enveloping the Canadian Tour was not a surprise. The PGA Tour spent too long doing due...
Roy Macgregor, love you but not sure you’re 100%...
Roy’s piece in today’s Globe “Fedex Cup Fails to deliver” is another good essay from Granny Stewart’s pride of Huntsville. However, Roy, I think it’s...
Sympatico: Love risks Ryder Cup on picks of Furyk...
My latest Sympatico column looks at the decision by Davis Love to pick Jim Furyk, Brandt Snedeker, Steve Stricker and Dustin Johnson, and pass Hunter Mahan by: Hunter Mahan’s timing is...
Sympatico: Augusta steps boldly into 21st century with...
Yesterday I wrote a column about Augusta National’s decision to admit two female members. Given the discussion the notion generated on this blog in the past, hopefully it’ll...
Canadian Open Wrap — Piercy outlasts the field
I can’t say I was hugely inspired by Scott Piercy or his win at the RBC Canadian Open. He seems like a nice guy, but he’s so low key and appears so lacking in enthusiasm that...
Canadian Open round up — Wednesday —...
I was busy yesterday, talking to Sean Foley for a GlobalGolfPost column, talking to Stephen Ames for the same story, and sitting in on a bunch of press conferences, including Ernie Els and...