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 [...]
Someone asked me if I’d traveled much this year and I immediately replied no. Then I thought about it. Yep, a fair bit, actually. Pebble Beach, Los Angeles, Bandon Dunes and England/Wales in the spring, followed by Highlands Links and Kamloops in the summer, and finished by Long Island, NY a couple of weeks back. [...]
I’ve written extensively about what is going on at Highlands Links (including a recent ScoreGolf feature that I can’t find online or I’d link to it. This post from last year has 45 comments on it, so it must have resonated with some…) Anyway, thanks to reader Greg for a photo of the trees taken [...]
The second year I wrote my Going for the Green column for the National Post I had the good fortune of playing a round of golf with Jack Poole, the force behind BC’s 2010 Winter Games bid. Poole was a lot of fun — interesting, humble — and we had a good time touring Capilano in [...]
Every year since 2005 at about this time I’ve returned for a game at Oviinbyrd, the private club that was established by Peter Schwartz, the former CEO of tech company Descartes Systems. I covered Descartes when I wrote tech for the National Post, and got to know Peter well — as well as his love [...]
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