With golf showing for the holidays (and me tiring of writing about Tiger), I thought I’d take the time to reflect on some of my experiences in 2009. As anyone who reads this blog...
Tag - St. George’s
Imagery: Mike Weir’s week at St. George’s
A tough week for Mike Weir at the 2010 RBC Canadian Open is now over, and not a moment too soon for the Bright’s Grove...
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Canadian Open Preview St. George’s Golf & CC Consider this not so much a review or preview, as a photo essay shot...
Read More Fairway Stevie’s World of Golf – St. George’s to...
This coming July, Toronto’s storied St. George’s Golf Club will host the Canadian Open for the 5th time –...
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All Roads Lead to Brights Grove: Mike Weir and the...
This weekend in Brights Grove , Ont., a little suburb of Sarna, Mike Weir will enter the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame at the age of 39. I’m heading down with Ian Andrew, Weir’s...
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 with Jack Poole, the force behind BC’s 2010 Winter Games...
St. George's — Then and Now
For reader “CW” who found St. George’s bunkers “garish,” here is a shot from 1932, just a couple of years after opening, and a current photo:
Review: St. George's Preps for Canadian Open
Course Review: St. George’s Golf and Country Club (Etobicoke, Ont.) Designer: Stanley Thompson On Friday, with the weather a little frosty for mid-October, I drove down to Etobicoke...
A Return to Oviinbyrd
Every year since 2005 at about this time I’ve returned for a game at Oviinbyrd, the private club that was established by Peter Schwartz, the former CEO of tech company Descartes...
OG Reveals Top 10 Courses
I’ve written for Ontario Golf — or OG as it is known — since 2001 when Ted McIntyre took the position of editor and launched the publication. Today OG announced its fifth...
St. George's Third Green: A Disaster in the...
The third hole at St. George’s Golf and Country Club, which will host next year’s Canadian Open, might be a disaster. That seems to be the point raised by Lorne Rubenstein in...
Only Two Remain: Golf Mag List Dips to Highlands, St...
The most recent issue of Golf Magazine published its Top 100 golf courses of the world and Top 100 in the U.S. Perhaps not surprisingly, there are only two Canadian courses on the list...