This week’s Sympatico column looks at the start of the golf season without Tiger:
There is life after Tiger Woods. The show must go on. No one is bigger than the game.
Choose your cliché wisely. Regardless, professional golf moves into another year whether the game’s best player turns up or not.
Not that Woods’ absence is a [...]
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 [...]
I spoke with Vernon, B.C.’s Chris Baryla a week ago about his comeback from injury and playing his way onto the PGA Tour. The interview followed a terribly uninformative conference call where only three of my peers actually asked questions. Doesn’t leave me with a lot of faith in Canada’s sports media. For what it [...]