Mike Weir’s website was updated yesterday with comments from the golfer (who will talk to the media today at a little past noon).
Anyway, perhaps not surprisingly he weighs in on l’affaire Tiger, and doesn’t add much. Then again, I wouldn’t expect Weir to delve too deep into the situation — it isn’t his style:
Like many [...]
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 who was involved in the project, as well as by construction company TDI and by Hawtree himself on his website. The problem is when you [...]
I picked up the Globe this morning to find an obituary of former Barrick Gold CEO Greg Wilkins, who died after a lengthy battle with cancer. I only met Wilkins once — playing golf with him for my Going for the Green column in the National Post in 2003. Here is that column:
MARKHAM, Ont. – [...]
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 the ball around Devil’s Pulpit and Paintbrush, and more often than not, at the 54-holes that is Osprey Valley. He’s always talking [...]
It is the second time Ames has won the event at Disney in FLA, taking the Disney event in a playoff after shooting a final round 64.
It should move Ames into the Top 50 in the world — he had fallen to 71. In typical Ames fashion, he appeared really loose in the round and [...]