Course of the Week: The Briars Golf Club
Co-designed by legendary Canadian architects Stanley Thompson and Robbie Robinson, the course has great character and is fun to play. Equally important, the Club is a great place to hang out.
Peter Mumford
Changing the Rules
The Rules of Golf may be changed by the governing bodies to make them simpler to follow. But most casual players already play by a set of Rules that’s easy to follow. Why not just adopt those?
Course of the Week: Hidden Lake Golf Club
The Old and the New courses at Hidden Lake in Burlington are quite different but both are very playable for every level of golfer and challenging enough for the pros too.
Should golf stay in the Olympics?
Player withdrawals, Zika virus, security issues and all the economic and political issues in Brazil couldn’t dampen the Olympic spirit and the biggest surprise of all was that golfers embraced the Games like no-one thought possible.
Course of the Week: Cherry Downs
The golf course won’t be everybody’s cup of tea. It requires you to think, a rare commodity these days. Cherry Downs may be the toughest short course in Ontario but it’s a must play if you understand the essence of golf.
The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Dinosaurs
Muirfield Golf Club will eventually be dragged into the 21st century. But change is not easy at old traditional private clubs and the dinosaurs won’t disappear quietly.
Masters Recap: Did the wrong guy win?
With the world’s best players arriving in top form, surely this would be a match for the ages. It didn’t turn out that way, which is unusual, because Augusta National usually scripts things to perfection.
Sandals Emerald Bay Club with the Great White Shark
World Golf Hall of Famer Greg Norman was our host for a couple of days of exceptional golf and dining.
PGA Merchandise Show Part 2: The good, the bad & the ugly
Endless aisles of equipment, apparel and gadgets bedazzle everyone who enters. For true gearheads it must be nirvana – insatiable gluttons faced with infinite delights.
