Earlier this year I reported on the “restoration” that Martin Hawtree was undertaking at Toronto Golf Club. It had been billed as a restoration by a prominent member at Toronto...
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Toronto municipal golf courses latest to struggle financially
Toronto’s munis are apparently the latest to face mounting financial difficulty. The city’s issue follows similar...
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Course Review: Ladies Golf Club of Toronto
Ladies Golf Club (Thornhill, Ont.) Designer: Stanley Thompson The Scorecard: Toronto Ladies has gained more...
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ClubLink's Lake Joe Club Loses Liquor License Over Crash
There’s been lots written about the accident two summers ago in Muskoka which resulted in three fatalities after the driver...
Read MoreTerrebonne project sold, RCGA investigate other...
When it was announced in 2002, the Terrebonne project (sometimes called CCQ), owned by Angus Glen proprietor Gordon Stollery and his business associate, Mike Columbos, was expected to hold...
Accenture Dumps Woods — "Be A Tiger"...
While some readers were discussing morality clauses in the contracts of Tiger Woods, Accenture apparently used its clause to get out of their high-profile deal with Woods. This...
Final Rounds — Finding joy at Osprey Valley
My good friend John loves to play golf more than anyone I know. Rain. Snow. Doesn’t matter. Fifty-four holes in a day. No sweat. He hangs his hat in Caledon and is constantly batting...
Golf Does Good: Industry Steps Up
This will be short, as I’m heading off in less than an hour for a fundraiser at Hidden Lake, a golf course near Burlington. The fundraiser is for John Parker, the superintendent at...
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...
Sympatico Column: Els' Career Distractions
Ernie Els has a reputation as being easy to deal with, if not exactly entirely forthcoming in interviews. I spoke with him last week when he was in Toronto courtesy of Callaway for a...
Course Review: Smuggler's Glen Golf Course...
Course Review: Smuggler’s Glen Golf Course Designer: Boyd Barr I’m on a bit of a family vacation — in other words, the two rug rats are asleep in the hotel room while my...
Hollidge To Take Over Operations at Angus Glen
Last night at the SCOREAwards I bumped into Nigel Hollidge, the former GM at Taboo and The Club at Bond Head. Nigel is always an interesting chap with strong opinions who really turned Bond...