Golf Canada is, kind of surprisingly, struggling to find enough competitors to make its regional RBC Canadian Open qualifying work. In past years all qualifying was done in Ontario —...
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RBC Canadian Open announces initial players
It seems a little later than normal, but Golf Canada has announced its initial batch of players and frankly, there are no...
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PGA Tour Canada: the courses and the veterans
The Canadian Tour PGA Tour Canada had a limited conference call last week — just four writers were invited to participate...
Read More PGA Tour Canada announces sched — prez's salary equal to...
The Canadian Tour PGA Tour Canada announced its tournament schedule yesterday. Not shockingly it is relatively anemic, with two...
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Sympatico: Tiger-less U.S. Open Picks
My take on the top picks in the U.S. Open went live on Sympatico this afternoon: The U.S. Open is always a war of attrition. Golf’s toughest major tests the patience of the best in the...
RBC's Golf Strategy
For those interested in RBC’s marketing strategy for golf (especially in light of the story about the potential of the bank sponsoring the Heritage), here’s a reprint of the...
RBC Stepping in to Save Heritage?
That’s the rumor that’s been circulating since key advisors to Royal Bank, sponsor of the Canadian Open seemingly half the leaderboard of any given field, were in the Carolinas...
Sympatico Column: Assessing the Six Canucks on Tour
My latest Sympatico column is generating some discussion, apparently because I’ve been deemed too negative by readers. Oh well. Realistically if half of our six on tour are back with...
Nationwide Tour Schedule Out — Gretzky Event is...
The Nationwide Tour schedule is out today and perhaps not too surprisingly, Wayne Gretzky’s troubled celebrity eventin Collingwood is not listed. It looks like the end for the...
Kingston's McQuillan Makes Improbable Rise To PGA...
Just got off the phone with Kington, Ont.’s Matt McQuillan, who remarkably played his way onto the PGA Tour only a couple of years after giving up professional golf altogether...
DeLaet Ready To Shut Down, Hearn Gears Up and Weir...
I’ve had two interesting conversations — and one text — in the last couple of days. The first two phone calls came from Saskatchewan’s Graham DeLaet, who tied for...
Random Notes for a Monday Morning
Jim Furyk wins the FedEx Cup. Now I find East Lake a dull place to watch golf, but Furyk managed to hang on — barely — to win. Did he deserve the title, with its system so...