I know people often complain that the Toronto Golf Show is nothing more than a travel show. I’ve never really had an issue with that — and I can rarely walk more than 10 feet without running into someone I know, so it makes the show a great networking event for catching up after the [...]
Well, it won’t be just me, but I’ll be heading down to the Toronto Golf Show in a couple of hours to interview David Leadbetter, and then head to events that will become increasingly rare — new course unveilings (one for the horribly named “The Lakes” on Cape Breton Island and one for Oak Bay [...]
A few weeks ago a G4G reader sent me a note about a fine of $25,000 to Mitchell G&CC near Stratford for “excessive water use.” Here’s the short blurb that appeared in the London Free Press:
STRATFORD — Mitchell Golf Club Inc. was fined $25,000 in provincial offences court Tuesday for using excessive amounts of water [...]
I’ve been crazy busy since returning from Mexico late last week, but yesterday I managed to find the time to head down to the Canadian International Turfgrass conference, generally regarded as the annual meeting of Canadian golf superintendents. I was there to see the design panel, involving Ian Andrew of Weir Golf Design, Doug Carrick [...]
Last year I had one of those “once-in-a-lifetime” experiences when I managed to put together a day that included a round at Cypress Point, a course many feel is the best in the world, with an afternoon round at Pebble Beach, generally regarded among the Top 5 courses in the U.S. It is hard to [...]
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