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Robert Thompson

Going for the Green

Robert Thompson's comments, criticism and opinion on the world of golf.

Posts about: golf season

Sympatico Column: Golf Without Tiger

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 [...]


Final Rounds — Finding joy at Osprey Valley

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 [...]


Sympatico Column: Chris Baryla’s Comeback Complete

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 [...]