With golf showing for the holidays (and me tiring of writing about Tiger), I thought I’d take the time to reflect on some of my experiences in 2009.
As anyone who reads this blog knows, I have a passion for golf design and great golf courses. This year was a spectacular one for me in that [...]
Course Preview: Turnberry GC (Brampton, Ont.)
Opens: May, 2010
Designer: Cam Tyers/Doug Carrick
Let’s call Turnberry Golf Club, the new course designed by Carrick Design just off Highway 410, exactly what it is — a grand experiment.
Sure this is the same team behind Eagles Nest, one of the best public courses to open in Canada in recent years. [...]
This afternoon I’m going to play Turnberry GC, the new sister course to Eagles Nest in Brampton.
It is an 18-hole course with only two par-4s. But before you call this an executive course, note that it was designed by Cam Tyer and Doug Carrick, the two men behind Eagles Nest. Specifically Tyers used hole concepts [...]
I had a nice conversation with designer Rod Whitman before heading to see his Sagebrush design in BC this week. Whitman has been working in Nova Scotia on Cabot Links, a course that has been delayed but is going forward. Anyway, here’s a shot from this week of the roughed-in 11th hole, a par-3.
I’m actually not quite back from B.C. In truth I’m sitting in the Vancouver airport using their terrific free wi-fi and getting ready for the red-eye back to the centre of the universe. The trip was a bit of a whirlwind — into Vancouver, do an interview, fly to Kamloops and drive to Merritt the [...]
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