It is always a real pleasure to get a chance to meet and speak with the best in the business — regardless of whether we’re talking high-finance, technology, entrepreneurism or, in this case, golf. With that in mind, I was very pleased to meet Bill Coore, half of the Coore/Ben Crenshaw design team, while on [...]
OntGolf.ca managed to scoop up two prizes at the inaugural Golf Journalists of Canada awards luncheon today at the fantastic St. George’s G&CC. I took home two awards — one for an obituary of Brampton caddie Steve Duplantis that appeared in the Globe and Mail last spring in the newspaper feature category, and another for [...]
Course Review: Woking Golf Club (Surrey, England)
Designer: Tom Dunn
It has been said that Scotland gets all the love when it comes to golf, but depth in terms of courses belongs to England. It is hard to argue with, even if you just look around the London area. My recent trip had multiple options — ranging [...]
Another good golf blog, Punch Bowl Golf, has hit the web, this one by Will Smith and Colin Sheehan, both actively interested and involved in golf design. They are spending a fair bit of time investigating some of the world’s best courses, both in text and pictures and in video. Well worth checking out.
In the meantime, we caught up [...]
I’m still touring around for one more day at Bandon Dunes, and hope to blog about Old Macdonald, the resort’s fourth course, tomorrow. In the meantime, there’s a new website for Weir Golf Design. And shock of shocks, Ian Andrew has returned to blogging on the site. It can be found here. The site isn’t [...]
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