Like the waves crashing against the shoreline at Cape Breton’s recently launched Cabot Links, golf’s hot spots come one upon the next. In their turn, the courses of Whistler, Prince Edward Island, Muskoka, Niagara, the Laurentians, the Alberta Rockies and more recently the Okanagan Valley have all been the toast of Canadian golf. Now, for […]
New Golf Hot Spots: Tunisia, Estonia, Turkey
July 26, 2012 by
Tired of teeing it up at the same old destinations? Tunisia, Turkey and Estonia offer championship courses and exotic locales for intrepid golfers craving new experiences.
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 […]
Bali’s Nirwana Resort is a Golf Paradise
June 26, 2012 by
Not far from the rampant tourism development in Kuta, southern Bali’s most popular beach destination, the Pan Pacific Nirwana Bali Resort is a tropical paradise of 300-year-old temples, stepped rice paddies and world-class golf.
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 […]
