Reflections from 2020
What a year. For people playing golf that game has safely provided a respite from the global pandemic. Golf in Canada enjoyed a record year for participation and based on…
2020 In Pictures – Day 5
The image was taken hastily and without much consideration, really the total opposite of the work Steve and his team have done at Hidden Lake in 2020. There is nothing…
2020 In Pictures – Day 4
My itinerary was an aggressive one; 54 holes over two days. But when it’s Jasper Park and Wolf Creek, simply make the time and make it happen. The back nine…
2020 In Pictures – Day 3
This image has invoked more sentiments than I had originally expected. Seems people could really resonate with the experience of having a playing partner in your weekly foursome needing to…
2020 in Pictures – Day 2
Cobble Beach is about 2.5 hours from my home in Burlington, ON and I’d go back in a heartbeat, in fact, I am hopeful to make it an annual excursion…
2020 In Pictures – Day 1
On the heels of a day of golf at Jasper Park, I was up early and headed south from Edmonton to meet my buddy @golfismental for 36 holes at one…
An Incomplete Look at Golf Collectables
I really took notice of collectibles when visiting my cousin in Chicago several years ago. A bachelor (at the time) and an avid golfer, he was seeking to get his…
Embracing golf’s off-season
This is about our off season here in Canada. Not the PGA Tour, where the off-season is 3 days long before wraparound events start up. In Ontario, October 31 was…
Golf, Friendship and Free Beer
This is not a new story. There are thousands of stories like this across Canada; weekly golf groups who tee it up at their local club. But for many reasons…
Cobble Beach – A links-inspired pleasure to play
https://www.cobblebeach.com/Home.aspx https://www.eatsleepgolf.net/cobble-beach Minutes north of Owen Sound, Ontario is a Doug Carrick-design which will leave players wanting to tee it up again and experience this links-inspired course again. The course…