Twelve years ago, Graham Cooke completed a $4-million renovation of the venerable Highlands Links Golf Club in remote Ingonish, NS. The course, which was always splendid, was held up as the...
Tag - Stanley Thompson
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...
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Thompson and Highlands Links
I’m off for a few days to Nova Scotia to give a speech at a symposium on Stanley Thompson at Highlands Links in Ingonish, on the north-east side of Cape Breton Island. That means...
Stanley Thompson Symposium At Highlands Links Next Week
I’m heading to Ingonish, NS, next week to participate in a symposium on the life and work of Stanley Thompson alongside some of the game’s most distinguished Canadian...
Review: Mississaugua G & CC — New Greens a...
I spent most of Monday at a media day for Mississaugua G&CC. It is a venerable old club, but its course felt a bit like a Frankenstein. More than a half dozen architects had taken a go...
Course Review: Subtle Mount Bruno
Mount Bruno Country Club Saint Bruno, Que. Designer: Willie Park Jr., with renovations by Stanley Thompson/Thomas McBroom There are few courses that are quieter, fewer less well known in...
New Book on Stanley Thompson
[photopress:Thompsonbook.jpg,full,alignright]Tonight at St. George’s Golf and Country Club in Etobicoke, a new book on the courses of Stanley Thompson, called aptly “The Golf...
Canada's 25 Best
I’ve been working on a list of the Top 25 courses in Canada alongside my Golf Club Atlas compatriots, Ben Cowan-Dewar, Ian Andrew and Jeff Mingay. We’ll eventually post a full...