So Ontario Golf Magazine is no more, but the publication brought out its final list of the top courses in Ontario as selected by its panel of 60 members. I’ve been a member of the panel...
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Girls in bikinis, guys in flip flops — the future of private...
Last Thursday I sat on the patio at Squaw Creek Golf Club, one-third of the Avalon Lakes course group in Ohio near the...
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Canadian Golfing Heroes
Last Sunday, while conducting a junior golf session, using the wonderful CN FUTURE LINKS format, I asked the kids to name a...
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St. Thomas G&CC — the benefits of a chain saw
St. Thomas G&CC has long been one of the great hidden gems in Ontario. Partly a creation of Stanley Thompson with some work...
Read MoreSympatico: The restoration of Highlands Links
My weekly Sympatico column is now up, and this week includes a video interview with golf archtect Ian Andrew. What more can you hope for from free media? Contrary to at least one media...
Course Review: St. Thomas Golf and Country Club
Course Review: St. Thomas Golf and Country Club (Union, Ont.) 1923 Architect(s): Stanley Thompson (alterations by Robbie Robinson, Ian Andrew) The Scorecard: Long regarded as one of the...
Course Review: Summit Golf and Country Club
Course Review: The Summit Golf and Country Club (1912) Architects: George Cumming, Stanley Thompson, Doug Carrick The Scorecard: Summit is one of Canada’s true Golden Age of Architecture...
Another Golf Course Closes
This time it is Owen Sound Golf and Country Club, three hours north-west of Toronto. Apparently there was a big debt problem: OSGCC president Bob Nicol said on Tuesday that the 90- year-old...
Golfweek Wades into the Canadian Course Ratings Game
Score and Ontario Golf already do it — and even the Globe and Mail tried it at one point — and now U.S. mag Golfweek is presenting a Top 30 Modern (post-1960) and Top 30...
York Downs Club Not For Sale, Says GM
Every year there’s a rumor that York Downs, the private club in Markham, is planning to sell its land and move to a new location. I’ve heard that was in the plans again and...
Sympatico Column: Cabot Links — Canada's...
This week’s Sympatico column, on golf course visionary Mike Keiser and his involvement with Cabot Links in Cape Breton, is now online. Here’s the first few paragraphs to...
G4G's Western Canadian Odyssey Day Five: Greywolf...
Course Reviews: Greywolf (Panorama, B.C.) — Doug Carrick Banff Springs (Banff, Alberta) — Stanley Thompson Greywolf is a course of extremes. Maybe that’s why people...