Is A Security Upgrade Due Where You Work?

As much as we don’t like to report such incidents, recent headlines on GNN have been about suspected arson, golf cart theft and joyrides that have damaged golf courses across Canada recently.

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Governing Associations Have Painted Themselves Into A Corner On Anchoring

The most interesting part of an 8 a.m. Tuesday press conference that is expected to announce the final decision on the proposed anchored putting ban is not the final decision itself, but how the USGA and...  Read More »

With All Of These Controversies, How Does Golf Look From The Outside In?

One of the common themes voiced in the recent debate about anchored putting is that recreational golfers who use that method will continue to do so, no matter what the USGA/R&A say, so whatever happens...  Read More »

McKay OK, But Faces Long Rehab After Accident

I spoke with veteran golf writer Garry McKay on Tuesday evening, a week after he was struck by a car while crossing Upper Gage Street in Hamilton. Now retired from the Hamilton Spectator, McKay was thrown...  Read More »

Do You Feel The Same On May 2-4 As You Did Jan. 1?

From Mother’s Day to the May 2-4 weekend, the special days and holidays are starting to fly as we chug towards summer. Actually, May 2-4 is a bit of a misnomer, more about a case of a popular beverage...  Read More »

Tiger’s Locked And Loaded At Sawgrass

The Players Championship changed dramatically between the first and second rounds as previously unknown first round leader Roberto Castro suffered a 15-shot swing, his opening 63 followed by a bloated...  Read More »

Golf Isn’t Supposed To Be A Dictatorship

There’s no doubt that administering and amending the Rules of Golf is one of the toughest jobs in the game because you know that for every action, there’s a reaction in protest and you’re not always...  Read More »

Should Governments Be In The Golf Business?

As I mentioned in this blog last week, I got started in the game at affordable public courses north of Toronto, so to hear so much recently about municipal courses coming under fire in cities across the...  Read More »

Never Let The Human Side Of The Golf Industry Go

A few blogs on GNN particularly struck me this week, not because of their news value but more because they illustrated the human side of the golf industry, an aspect that can get particularly overlooked...  Read More »

Munis Are Under Pressure, But They’re A Foundation For The Game

If we think of one common theme to the winter that just passed, certainly its refusal to release its grip on the golf industry is one of them in contrast to last year when many parts of the country saw...  Read More »

USGA/R&A: Good Cop-Bad Cop On Anchored Putting Debate?

It’s almost as if USGA executive director Mike Davis and R&A chief Peter Dawson were playing good cop – bad cop on the 90-day comment period that was allowed on the controversial anchored putting...  Read More »