Interesting to see the latest issue of Golf World, which includes Geoff Shackelford’s survey of PGA Tour pros commenting on what their favourite courses are. Two of the three regular...
Tag - The Open Championship
RBC Canadian Open announces initial players
It seems a little later than normal, but Golf Canada has announced its initial batch of players and frankly, there are no...
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Canadian Open Week Round Up — Day two
The Canadian Open round up starts with changes to the field — U.S. Open winner Webb Simpson, whose wife is due with their...
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RBC Canadian Open field announced: Simpson in, Day out
Next week I’ll be spending a lot of time shuttling between Toronto and Ancaster for the RBC Canadian Open. The tournament...
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Canadian Open Wednesday: Foley on Tiger, Weir stacks...
Yesterday was spent at Marine Drive Golf Club where the Golf Journalists Assocation of Canada had its annual awards lunch and golf tournament. I won two second place showings — one...
Major to Major
Maybe there’s something fundamentally wrong with me? (Of course, if you’ve ever read this column before, you already knew that). Maybe I should have a much more cold-blooded...
Sympatico: Five Greatest Masters
My take on the five greatest Masters is now up on Sympatico. Anyone have any other suggestions? Though the British Open may be more historic, and the U.S. Open has a better field, to many...
Sympatico Column: Johnson's bunker meltdown bad...
My latest Sympatico column is now online. Interestingly, when I went to Carnoustie in 2003, people were still having their pictures taken standing in the creek Jean Van De Velde waded into...
RBC Canadian Open Wrap: Final Round
At the end of long week, I finally had the opportunity to watch golf. Sure I went out on Thursday and watched a round (Retief Goosen, Camilo Villegas, and Carl Pettersson, though I had no...
RBC Canadian Open Wrap: Moving Day for Wilson...
At the start of the week the talk was about a single-digit final score. Now the question is whether leader Dean Wilson can make it to 20-under par. Yep, like Saint George, these players...
Open Championship Week: Calgary's Kinnear Buys...
Former Pengrowth CEO Jim Kinnear, who had his own chapter in my last book, Going for the Green, has apparently bought a home across from the 18th green at St. Andrews. CanWest’s Cam...
Open Championship Week: The Scottish Golf Tour
In 2003 I went to Scotland for the first time — the tour consisted of rounds at Stonehaven (while my wife was traveling with me), Belleisle, Turnberry’s two courses...