I’m not sure it gets much notice here, but Golfweek, which ranks pretty much everything (Players! College players! Courses! Campus Courses! Caddies!) has come out with its second...
Tag - Rod Whitman
Conversations with the best: Coore, Whitman and the CGSA conference
The day after coming back from Calgary, I mentioned my dinner with golf designers Bill Coore and Rod Whitman to my friend Ian...
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Cabot Links debuts in world Top 100
Golf Magazine unveiled it list of newcomers to its world Top 100 golf course list yesterday. Along with Donald Trump’s...
Read More Returning to Sagebrush
In some ways driving up the laneway to Sagebrush is very familiar. After all, I’ve been to the course numerous times, first when...
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Mike Keiser: Interested in Highlands Links, but not...
A few weeks back it was announced that the federal government, which operates Highlands Links in Cape Breton, NS, was seeking an interested party to lease the Top 100 in the world course...
Interview: Pete Dye on Kiawah, long par fours and how...
In March, when I was on holiday at Teeth of the Dog, I had the good fortune to run into Pete Dye, without question the most famous golf architect currently in the business (at least who...
Golf Journalists Association of Canada Awards 2012
Here’s the complete list from the GJAC’s awards at Dundas Valley on Monday. Congrats to all the entrants: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 23, 2012 TORONTO—Golf Journalists...
G4G Wins two awards at Golf Journalists Association of...
I was the lucky recipient of two second-place prizes at the Golf Journalists Association of Canada writing awards yesterday at Dundas Valley Golf and Curling Club. I won the awards for a...
Course Review: Blackhawk Golf Club
Blackhawk Golf Club (Spruce Grove, AB) Designer: Rod Whitman The Scorecard: While Rod Whitman’s Wolf Creek was always regarded as a fine golf course, it was the course builder’s Blackhawk...
Course Review: Wolf Creek (Links Course)
The Course: Wolf Creek Resort – The Links (Panoka, Alberta) Designer: Rod Whitman (original nine 1996, new nine 2010) The Scorecard: “I think if you played the new nine, I’m not sure why...
Richard Zokol splits with Sagebrush
I remember the first time I asked Richard Zokol about the golf course he was planning on building. It was 2003, his last year in which he played with any regularity on the PGA Tour. He was...
Bandon Dunes' Mike Keiser Talks Cabot Links
I’m just working through a feature on Cape Breton Island’s Cabot Links, the best new course I’ve seen in some time, and transcribed a recent interview I did with Mike...