Adams Goes Big on Hybrids

Adams is offering a couple of new drivers for ’09, but continues its focus on hybrids, blending their easy-to-hit nature to irons and fairway woods, as well as introducing a new generation of hybrid clubs. The following is what you will see from Adams for next year. Adams products are distributed in Canada by the [...]

DeCorso Battles Injury Down the Stretch

Canada’s best hope to become a newcomer on the PGA Tour in 2009 now has a large obstacle in the way with the final few weeks of the Nationwide Tour season on the horizon. Bryan DeCorso of Guelph, Ont., won the first Nationwide Tour event of his career in early May after taking the South [...]

DryJoys Tour Collection Offers Many Features, Pieces

The new DryJoys Tour Collection from FootJoy offers a wide range of outerwear featuring lightweight construction, waterproof stretch panels, sealed seams, waterproof zippers and technology to allow water to bead off the shell. Included in the Tour Collection is a rain jacket designed to be waterproof, breathable, windproof, lightweight, comfortable and quiet. Features of the [...]

Kierland Concentrates On All Aspects of Golf

In a game in which bigger is better and difficult divine, the Kierland Golf Club in Scottsdale, Az., has admirably resisted the temptation to muscle up its 27 holes for the sake of reputation and instead concentrates on its target customers. Located at the Westin Kierland Resort and Spa, the Acacia, Ironwood and Mesquite nines [...]

The Challenge is Understanding How Tough the Economy Will Get

If you went into this past weekend hoping that $700-billion bailout of financial institutions in the United States would become reality, it appears you may get your wish as Congress considers today what may be an economic necessity in order to avoid total collapse. If you’re expecting that aid to be the end of the [...]

Mackenzie Joins Isle Golf Cars

Jamie Mackenzie, a Canadian golf industry veteran with companies such as Srixon and Callaway Golf, has joined Isle Golf Cars, the authorized distributor for Club Car on Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast. Isle Golf Cars has been run for the past 17 years by Tim Sheedy, who recently sold the business to Ron Chiovetti. [...]

Nike Canada Adds New Website Features

Nike Golf Canada is taking steps to make its website, www.nikegolf.ca, more interactive, offering the opportunity to ask Nike Golf players questions during featured tournaments, watch video interviews from selected events or browse through still images of the players. Nike launched the new feature with “Go Inside the Ropes at The Tour Championship,” to complement [...]

Ping Rolls Out AFS, nFlight Clubfitting Technology

Ping is approaching its 50th anniversary next year, but that milestone doesn’t mean it is set in its ways or unwilling to embrace new technology, especially when it comes to the importance that the company places on clubfitting. Over the next few months, Ping will be rolling out its Advanced Fitting System (AFS) Fitting Cart [...]

Bouchard Wins CPGA Assistants Title in Playoff

Remi Bouchard of Le Mirage in Terrebonne, Que., outlasted John McCann of Ontario’s Fairtree Golf Centre in a one-hole playoff to win the 2008 Titleist & FootJoy Canadian PGA Assistants’ Championship at Club de Golf Beleoil in Beleoil, Que., on Thursday. Bouchard carded 67-68-66 for a 12-under 201 total before going to the extra hole [...]

Mizuno Covers All the Bases in Irons

Mizuno is considering all skill levels, with the introduction of four new sets of irons – the MX-200s, MP-52s, MP-62s and MX-100s. The following is a look at what’s available at Mizuno for 2009. MX-200 A game-improvement iron with the goal of forgiveness and feel, the MX-200 irons use Y-Tune Technology to enhance Grain Flow [...]

Is a Perfect Economic Storm Brewing?

Canadians are naive, if not glib and obnoxious, if they still think that the current economic climate in the United States could not blow north of the border with brute force. Canada is already feeling the effects of the American economic woes with the loss of manufacturing jobs, mostly in Ontario, which makes sense considering [...]

Levesque Up By One with One to Go

Dave Levesque felt his game wasn’t on par with the first round, but he still holds a one-shot lead going into the final round at the 2008 Titleist & FootJoy Canadian PGA Assistants’ Championship at Club de golf Beloeil in Beloeil, Que. “I felt that my game was much better yesterday than today because I [...]

Sunice Aims for Fashion / Function with Hurricane Outerwear

Sunice has introduced new additions to its Hurricane outerwear collection, with several new items within the men’s and women’s offerings.  “Our 2009 Sunice Hurricane Collection is our finest, and most technologically advanced product line ever,” said Mark Fletcher, president of Sunice. “Our Hurricane Collection is a mainstay.” The following are the highlights of the 2009 [...]

Tehama Adds to Hang ‘em Dry Offerings

Tehama has announced two signature groupings to its Hang ‘em Dry category, one each for men and women for spring, 2009. Hang ‘em Dry offers polyester and cotton/polyester blend fabrications that are lightweight, moisture-wicking, antibacterial and offer UPF 30-plus protection. Within the new collections, golfers will see body-mapping, colour blocking, mechanical stretch and other details. [...]

Play Heats Up After Frost Delay at CPGA Assistants

The first round of the Titleist & FootJoy Canadian PGA Assistants’ Championship will be completed today after play was suspended due to darkness with five groups left to finish at Club de Golf Beloeil in Beloeil, Quebec yesterday. The beginning of the tournament was delayed in the morning due to frost, but things heated up [...]

Scotty Cameron Extends Studio Select Line

Titleist has extended it Scotty Cameron Studio Select putter line, with the introduction of four new models, including the Fastback 1, Squareback 1, Newport 2.6 and Newport 2.7. All four of the new models are precision milled with circular weights in the heel and toe that allows each model to be offered in five different [...]

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