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 [...]
A travel feature I wrote about heading to great golf in England by train appeared in yesterday’s Toronto Star. BTW, I think this is the first thing I’ve written for the Star since 1998.
Here’s a taste:
LONDON–At 6 a.m. London’s ritzy Sloane Square is just starting to bustle with bleary-eyed commuters, as I duck out of my [...]
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