(Last updated August 2018.) Previously unfamiliar to the majority of Canadian golfers, Saskatchewan’s golf courses are suddenly as hot as a prairie heat wave. In August 2018, Wascana Country Club, a private facility in Regina, was the site of Canadian Brooke Henderson’s victory in the LPGA Tour’s Canadian Pacific Women’s Open, the first time Canada’s […]
Relive Beatlemania on England’s Golf Coast
July 18, 2012 by
In an earlier stage of my writing life, I authored Our Hearts Went Boom: The Beatles’ Invasion of Canada (Viking Canada). It’s a fun look back at those heady days in the early ‘60s when the popularity of the Fab Four swept the world and, in particular, Canada. So I was interested to learn that […]
Muskoka’s New Signature Hole, Remembering Moe Norman, and Vietnam’s Golf Boom
June 27, 2012 by
Muskoka, a rocky, lake-filled tourist district a two-hour drive north of Toronto, has long been one of Canada’s top golf destinations. Muskoka Bay Club, Bigwin Island, Taboo and Deerhurst Highlands are all highly rated tracks. Recently, I had the opportunity to play the newest addition to the roster, Oak Bay Golf and Country Club, a 6,503-yard Shawn […]
Canada’s First True Links Opens in Cape Breton
June 21, 2012 by
Has a Canadian golf course ever been more eagerly anticipated than Cabot Links? Touted as the country’s first true links, the dramatic seaside layout on Cape Breton’s west coast became an international flagship for the Canadian golf industry with its launch in 2012 and, not incidentally, the savior of Inverness, a former mining town that […]
Zokol at Predator, a New Links at Bushmills, and the Countdown for Cabot Links
May 15, 2012 by
It will be fascinating to see the impact of two new high-profile arrivals at the Okanagan Valley’s Predator Ridge Resort, already one of Canada’s top golf properties. Two-time PGA Tour winner Richard Zokol (formerly of Sagebrush Golf and Sporting Club in B.C.’s Nicola Valley) was hired as executive director of golf development, and former LPGA touring […]
