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 [...]
I’ve always been fascinated by golf course developers who know exactly what they want. Far too often those that build golf courses haven’t a clue beyond the concept that a course will help sell real estate. That’s often been the case in Canada — and led directly to the failure of several high-profile projects where the [...]
A travel feature I wrote about heading to great golf in England by train appeared in yesterday’s Toronto Star.  BTW, I think this is the first thing I’ve written for the Star since 1998.
Here’s a taste:
LONDON–At 6 a.m. London’s ritzy Sloane Square is just starting to bustle with bleary-eyed commuters, as I duck out of my [...]
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Review: Carnoustie Golf LinksÂ
Location: Carnoustie, Scotland
Designer: Alan Robertson (later alterations James Braid)
The Scotsman had an interesting story this past week on Carnoustie, site of this year’s British Open.
In Scotland, it is all about Carnoustie this year, specifically whether the course, which hosts the British Open in July, will be set up as difficult [...]
Almost three years ago I made my second trip to Scotland, and among the places I wanted to be sure to see was Crail Golf Club, home of the Crail Golfing Society. Some may recognize it as the model for Michael Murphy’s fabled course in Golf in the Kingdom. To me, it didn’t need any [...]
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