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Cabot Links gets $8.25-million loan from NS government
Cabot Links managing director Ben Cowan-Dewar points to the cliffs where designer Bill Coore has proposed a remarkable par three. Interesting to see the news that Cabot Links received a $8.25-million...
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A case for re-imagining long drive
RT’s Note: I’ve had several good chats with Colin McDougall while sitting at London’s Hunt Club or in a nearby Starbucks in recent months. Like most conversations I have people in the golf business,...
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Getting your kids involved with golf—part 1 of a series
My kids warming up on their first day of golf camp run by TGA. I’ve long wanted to get my kids involved with golf. My daughter first hit balls when she was three, and she and her brother went to an...
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Getting your kids involved with golf: Part 2—TGA
My son works on his swing while an instructor watches. I’ll admit that neither of my kids were very keen on going to a golf camp—at least not initially. Syd wanted to hang out with her friends and Liam...
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Glen Abbey: Don’t expect houses anytime soon
Clublink owner Rai Sahi: Preparing to unlock the hidden value of his golf assets? So the news hit last Friday that Clublink Corp. and owner Rai Sahi were seeking to rezone Glen Abbey, the home of far...
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The continued evolution of Golf Town
I recall quite vividly getting an invitation for the opening of the flagship Golf Town store in Scarborough. I had just started at the National Post and had written a story for Marketing Magazine about...
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Summit Golf’s bold no initiation play
Some see Ian Leggatt as admitting defeat. Leggatt sees it as recognizing the future. Leggatt, the former PGA Tour winner who has run Summit, a pretty terrific private golf club north of Toronto for...
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PGA Merchandise show: Shorts, the Olympics and the 75th for Highlands Links
For years I was told by a colleague that I needed to come to the Orlando PGA Merchandise show. I largely ignored him, simply because I didn’t write much about equipment, something that changed over the...
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Chronicled: How my take on Cape Breton golf ended up in a paper on strike
The 16th at Cabot Cliffs is one of the country’s most visually stunning holes. I’ll say that as far as I know I haven’t worked at a paper with a union. Scratch that–I was part of the Niagara...
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Kids and golf: How TGA is trying to grow the game in Ontario
My son swings at a TGA camp last year in London. This is my final take on TGA Golf, the organization that started in the US under the watchful eye of Josh Jacobs, and has come to Canada in recent...
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Canadian Open for King’s Forest is an infeasible concept
So a city politician in Hamilton not only wants the Canadian Open, they want Golf Canada to move to one of their courses as well: A city councillor wants to make Hamilton the home of Canadian golf. Sam...
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