(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 […]
Controversial Trump Course Launches in Scotland
July 17, 2012 by
Joined by Scottish golf stars Colin Montgomerie and Martin Laird, American billionaire Donald Trump officially launched his controversial new Scottish course, Trump International Golf Links, in early July. The $1.16-billion project, set on a prime stretch of linksland near Aberdeen on Scotland’s northeast coast, has been plagued by controversy. Construction was stalled for more than two years […]
Birdies and Birdwatching at Cordova Bay
July 7, 2012 by
Once ranked alongside the razing of rain forests as an ecologically hostile activity, golf has embraced the green movement with the zeal of the converted. In the first in a series profiling Canada’s greenest courses, we look at Victoria’s Cordova Bay Golf Course’s winning combination of birdies and birdwatching.
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 […]
Play in a Mixed Tourney in Northern Ireland
June 21, 2012 by
Canadian Golf Traveller editor Brian Kendall and publisher Sharon McAuley journey to Northern Ireland for a nervous first step into the world of husband-and-wife tournament golf.
