My latest Sympatico column is generating some discussion, apparently because I’ve been deemed too negative by readers. Oh well. Realistically if half of our six on tour are back with...
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Should Canadian Open become a WGC event?
Should we sacrifice the RBC Canadian Open? That seems to be what Golf Canada executive director Scott Simmons was raising while...
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Course review: Glen Abbey Golf Club
Course review: Glen Abbey GC (Oakville, Ont. — 1976) Architect: Jack Nicklaus Overview: It has held a boatload of Opens...
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Guest blog: Colin McDougall on the possibilities of long drive
RT’s note: Regular guest blogger Colin McDougall is an educator in the golf industry who formerly ran equipment maker...
Read MoreWeir/Andrew to Redesign Laval for CanOpen
Been sitting on this one for a while, but kudos to Lorne Rubenstein for breaking the news (that the club should have put out months ago, I’ll add) that Laval, the private club outside...
GJAC Player of the Year awards
The Golf Journalists Association of Canada (of which I’m a member) has released its “player of the year” awards. No real surprises here…. The Golf Journalists...
Sean Foley on Ambitions, New DVD and Fixing...
Three years ago, Sean Foley had a dream. Now it wasn’t some Martin Luther King dream. Nope. He told the Globe’s Lorne Rubenstein that he aspired to coaching Tiger Woods. I...
Sympatico Column: Weir's Comeback
My latest Sympatico column is up: Not since he was 18 has Mike Weir had this much time away from golf. Since he was diagnosed with a partially-torn ligament in his elbow at the end of...
Croeso i Gymru!
Other than the prestige and the history and the money, the one great thing about the Majors and the other big tournaments like the Tour Championship is that the pure, evil pressure of the...
Sympatico Column: FedEx Follies Without Woods
This week’s Sympatico column, about the challenges of not having Tiger Woods in the Tour Championship, is online and you can read it here. If you want more to entice you to read...
Sympatico Column: Monty's Pick Could be...
My latest Sympatico column went live over the weekend. In it I discuss the Ryder Cup selection — though I’ll admit I never thought of Charley Hoffman as a pick, though some...
For Whom The Bell Tolls…
We all should have expected the first week of the FedEx Playoffs was going to be a wild and wacky weekend, based on the way it started. But I can pretty much guarantee you that NO ONE with...