Clik here to view.
Richard Zokol splits with Sagebrush
Sagebrush: Founder Richard Zokol has split with the club he created in the interior of British Columbia. I remember the first time I asked Richard Zokol about the golf course he was planning on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Course Review: Wolf Creek (Links Course)
The scale of the Links Course at Wolf Creek can be seen in the 11th green. The Course: Wolf Creek Resort – The Links (Panoka, Alberta) Designer: Rod Whitman (original nine 1996, new nine 2010) The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Course Review: Blackhawk Golf Club
The 18th at Blackhawk -- one of the best closers in Canada. Blackhawk Golf Club (Spruce Grove, AB) Designer: Rod Whitman The Scorecard: While Rod Whitman’s Wolf Creek was always regarded as a fine golf...
View ArticleClik here to view.
G4G Wins two awards at Golf Journalists Association of Canada event
The executive of the GJAC and guests, from left Robert Thompson, Grant Fraser, Rick Young, Sandra Post, Dick Grimm, Garry McKay, David Cowx and Scott Pritchard I was the lucky recipient of two...
View ArticleGolf Journalists Association of Canada Awards 2012
Here’s the complete list from the GJAC’s awards at Dundas Valley on Monday. Congrats to all the entrants: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 23, 2012 TORONTO—Golf Journalists Association of Canada announce...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Interview: Pete Dye on Kiawah, long par fours and how the USGA let the game...
In March, when I was on holiday at Teeth of the Dog, I had the good fortune to run into Pete Dye, without question the most famous golf architect currently in the business (at least who never played on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mike Keiser: Interested in Highlands Links, but not Keltic Lodge, while...
A few weeks back it was announced that the federal government, which operates Highlands Links in Cape Breton, NS, was seeking an interested party to lease the Top 100 in the world course and the Keltic...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Golfweek — Paintbrush, St. George's tops in Canada
The third hole at Devil’s Paintbrush. Best in Canada? I’m not sure it gets much notice here, but Golfweek, which ranks pretty much everything (Players! College players! Courses! Campus Courses!...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Returning to Sagebrush
Sagebrush’s new badlands putting course. In some ways driving up the laneway to Sagebrush is very familiar. After all, I’ve been to the course numerous times, first when it was in construction, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cabot Links debuts in world Top 100
Golf Magazine unveiled it list of newcomers to its world Top 100 golf course list yesterday. Along with Donald Trump’s course in Scotland and a Coore/Crenshaw design in China, Cabot Links, located in...
View ArticleConversations with the best: Coore, Whitman and the CGSA conference
The day after coming back from Calgary, I mentioned my dinner with golf designers Bill Coore and Rod Whitman to my friend Ian Andrew. I’d hung out with the pair, along with other shapers and the...
View Article
