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Posts about: St. George’s Golf and Country Club

Review: St. George’s Preps for Canadian Open

 
Course Review: St. George’s Golf and Country Club (Etobicoke, Ont.)
Designer: Stanley Thompson
On Friday, with the weather a little frosty for mid-October, I drove down to Etobicoke for a round at St. George’s Golf and Country Club, which will host next year’s RBC Canadian Open. Though I’ve written about it extensively (including a chapter in my book, [...]


Shaughnessy to Host Canadian Open: Source

Tomorrow the RCGA will announce Shaughnessy as the host site of the Canadian Open in 2011, according to a source in a Canadian Press story. This is a pretty badly kept secret — but a nice choice. I reported this on my blog last year — not sure why it took so long to [...]


Column: Stanley Thompson’s Vibrant Legacy

This one got lost in the Ryder Cup hysteria, and I forgot to post it. Interesting to write a column generated by some of the comments on this blog.
Here goes:
On Golf in INGONISH, NS – Highlands Links will never hold a Canadian Open. Heck, it hasn’t actually had PGA Tour players walk to its tees [...]


Score’s Top 100 — Winners and Losers

Score’s Top 100 Courses in Canada was announced at 11 am with a show featuring Bob Weeks, Lorne Rubenstein and myself. The list will surely hit their site soon, but here are the highlights, with my notes about winners, losers, movers and shakers. The entire list is here.
The Top 5 is intriguing for a couple [...]