Within a few hours of the conclusion of the Travelers Championship last weekend I received an e-mail from one of our long-time golf pool members. Over the years, this has become a pretty...
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Scotland: How to crack the Old Course
Eleven years. That’s the last time I had the good fortune to play the Old Course in St. Andrews. Yes, it is where golf started...
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Open Championship Week: Calgary's Kinnear Buys Home on the Scores
Former Pengrowth CEO Jim Kinnear, who had his own chapter in my last book, Going for the Green, has apparently bought a home...
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Yankee? No Thankee!
The theme for my picks at St. Andrew can be summed up in one pithy little rhyme: “Yanks, no thanks.†It might not bump...
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Teeing off on the 18th at Old Course
Here’s video of my playing partner Sal’s tee shot on St. Andrews Old Course, 18th hole, from our trip in July 2008. There’s nothing better than the Old Course.
Bandon Dunes Resort’s Latest: Old Macdonald Golf...
Here’s a story on Bandon Dunes’ latest — Old Macdonald — that appeared earlier this year: Dream Golf Adds a Historic Element Famed Bandon Dunes Resort opens a fourth...
Public Links Increase Lure of British Open
Here’s a timely story from my first trip to Scotland, published in the National Post in 2003: ST. ANDREWS, Scotland – Standing on the first tee at the Old Course at St. Andrews...
Course Review: Royal St. George's (Sandwich, U.K.)
Course Review: Royal St. George’s Location: Sandwich, UK I’ve played all over Scotland, tried some of the best in Ireland, but until last week I had never played in England...
Course Preview: Old Macdonald at Bandon Dunes Resort
Course Preview: Old MacDonald (Bandon Dunes Resort, Oregon) Designers: Tom Doak and Jim Urbina Here’s the premise so far for those that think Old MacDonald is a child’s sing...
Kyle Phillips’ Kingsbarns: Modern and Magnificent
Writer’s Note: I spoke with Kyle Phillips about two years after the opening of Kingsbarns, near St. Andrews, Scotland, a point at which it was being considered among the best new...
Securing the Old Course: Try the ballot
Writer’s Note: I wrote this story after my first experience in Scotland, and specifically at The Old Course. The notion is that the course is impossible to play without shelling out...
Book Review: The Seventh At St. Andrews
Book Review: The Seventh at St. Andrews[photopress:7th.jpg,full,alignright] Author: Scott Gummer It is odd to have a book appear on a course before the public actually has a chance to see...