Weir on Player Advisory Board
There’s no doubt Mike Weir is respected by his peers — but nonetheless it was interesting to see the Canadian placed on the PGA Tour’s player advisory board. Not that the board has a ton of power…. The...
View ArticleRoyal Bank Inks Deal with PGA of America for Ryder Cup, PGA Championship,...
As expected, RBC has just announced a deal that will see it not only sponsor the PGA of American for three years, with options for additional years, but will see its brand aligned with the PGA...
View Article“We call him the Dalai Lama”
Interesting Steve Elling piece on Sean Foley — though the only real surprise is that it has taken so long for Foley to get some strong American coverage. Thanks to reader “Geoff” (yep, tongue in cheek...
View ArticleCanTour Commish Rick Janes Responds
Canandian Tour Commissioner Rick Janes responded to my commentary on the “pro gap” white paper his organization published, taking particular affront to the notion that the Canadian Tour is in trouble....
View ArticleSympatico Column: Is the Haney Project Over?
I failed to post the link to last week’s column on Sean Foley and the rumors of a link to Tiger Woods. Hard to say what was the truth in all of this — but now that Tiger is hurt, does it make Foley...
View ArticleCanOpen Day Two Roundup
Let’s start with me, since it is really all about me anyway. My column for Sympatico on great golf coursesmaking for great golf, is now online, along with some videos shot at St. George’s last month....
View ArticleSean Foley on Ambitions, New DVD and Fixing Tiger’s Driver
Three years ago, Sean Foley had a dream. Now it wasn’t some Martin Luther King dream. Nope. He told the Globe’s Lorne Rubenstein that he aspired to coaching Tiger Woods. I thought it a ridiculous thing...
View ArticleSympatico Column: Assessing the Six Canucks on Tour
My latest Sympatico column is generating some discussion, apparently because I’ve been deemed too negative by readers. Oh well. Realistically if half of our six on tour are back with full playing...
View ArticleSympatico: Tiger-less U.S. Open Picks
My take on the top picks in the U.S. Open went live on Sympatico this afternoon: The U.S. Open is always a war of attrition. Golf’s toughest major tests the patience of the best in the world, putting...
View ArticleAmes on Players: “Just another tournament”
I caught up with Stephen Ames for the first time since last year’s Canadian Open for a feature I was working on and also got him to talk about missing the Players Championship for the first time since...
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