Golf Digest’s Best New in Canada was just announced, with Dick Zokol’s dream, Sagebrush near Merritt, BC, winning the top prize. Nice to see Dick Kirkpatrick’s Ottercreek come in second, so they can say they were the best new in Ontario in 2009! Nonethless, quite an accomplishment for Kirkpatrick on a relatively modest project.
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One of the more intriguing courses to open in Ontario in the last few years, and once T&L’s Best New Golf Course in Canada, the Raven at Lora Bay is facing some distress amind concerns about residential real estate that the project is based on. You’ll recall Lora [...]
Last week I wrote a quick note about a press release I had received mentioning that Gary Player was to receive a lifetime achievement honor at the National Golf Course Owners’ Association meeting in BC. Strange, thought I, as Player hasn’t really done anything in Canada to warrant an honor. But I wasn’t attending — [...]
The most recent issue of Golf Magazine published its Top 100 golf courses of the world and Top 100 in the U.S.
Perhaps not surprisingly, there are only two Canadian courses on the list, namely St. George’s in Toronto and Highlands Links in Nova Scotia. The spiral of Highlands Links continues, with the course dropping to [...]
Interesting to see how courses are adapting to the changing economic climate. Richard Zokol’s Sagebrush, once envisioned as a high-end, ultra-exclusive private club in B.C., has reworked its structure, done away with initiations for the time being and has now inked a reciprocol deal with Redtail, the super-exclusive private club near St. Thomas, Ont.
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