Fractured Friday Thoughts from a Tumultuous Week

Some fractured Friday thoughts on a week that has been dominated by news of the swine flu outbreak that caused both the Canadian Tour and Nationwide Tour to postpone events in Mexico, believed to be the country of origin for the virus. Mexico is urging its citizens to stay home, while shutting down non-essential government [...]

New Henry-Griffitts OS-1s Have Curvilinear Sole

The Curvilinear Sole in the new OS-1 irons from Henry-Griffitts is designed to improve consistency, control and playability. With a lower centre of gravity, the Cuvilinear Sole features strategically placed tungsten/copper sole weights, a wide sole and cutout back design. “The OS-1 is exceptionally forgiving, but gives the player the freedom to play all shots,” [...]

Sun Mountain Makes It Easy To Micro-Manage

The new four-wheel Micro Cart from Sun Mountain is designed to fold 25 per cent smaller and weigh 20 per cent less than standard push carts. The Micro Cart weighs just 13 pounds and folds down to 52 cubic inches, with no assembly required. Despite going lighter, Sun Mountain added a fourth wheel to the [...]

G&G Golf Launches New Website

Vancouver-based G&G Golf has introduced a new website at www.gandg.ca. The new site features four panels devoted to various categories of the company’s vast line of products, including golf bags, soft goods, accessories and essentials. It also offers a handy search engine, according to company vice-president Cori German. “The search button up on the right [...]

Canadian Tour Showed Prudence, Not Panic in Exiting Mexico

The Canadian Tour was going to extraordinary lengths to protect its players and officials from swine flu, while still playing the San Luis Potosi Open in Mexico, the virus’ country of origin, this week. No fans would be able to watch the event and there would be no caddies. Hand sanitizers would be everywhere and [...]

Canadian Tour Gets Out of Mexico

The Canadian Tour has decided to postpone this week’s San Luis Potosi Open in Mexico and yesterday was working to bring players and officials home as quickly as possible. The tour had originally planned to play the San Luis Potosi event after announcing Tuesday evening that the final two events of its Mexican swing – [...]

Have You Eased Up on Dress Code?

My early days in golf were spent on public courses where the dress code was much more relaxed than at private clubs which, from my perspective at the time, were manicured, green paradises behind iron gates that prevented access to the likes of me. To be honest, I didn’t really think all that much about [...]

Green Moves

The following members of the Canadian Golf Superintendents Association have changed facilities recently. They are listed with their new facilities with their previous facility in parentheses: Mitch Davidson, Wascana Country Club, Regina (Fairmont Banff Springs, Banff, Alta.). Clifford Forester, Sundre Golf Club, Sundre, Alta. (Cougar Creek Golf Resort, Edmonton). Shawn Marjoram, RCGA Golf, Calgary (Calgary [...]

Another Golf Town Opening

Golf Town is opening yet another superstore, this time a 17,000-square-foot outlet in Gatineau, Que., on Thursday. The store is located at 91 Boulevard de la Gappe, Unit B4. The store opening takes place at 8 a.m.

Canadian Tour Bans Fans in Mexico

This week’s San Luis Potosi Open in Mexico is one time the Canadian Tour doesn’t mind fans not being at the golf course. As a matter of fact, the tour endorses the idea. “We’re going to operate the tournament without caddies. We’re not going to allow any spectators on to the golf course. It’s a [...]

Golf Goes On High Alert

It seems like only last week that all we could talk about was the impact of a struggling economy that came on the heels of 9-11, SARS, weird weather, a high Canadian dollar and skyrocketing gas prices to name just a few of the treats faced by the Canadian golf industry and other businesses the [...]

Canadians Will Be MIA at Women’s Open

Canadians now occupy two of the top four spots on the Duramed Futures Tour money list after Angela Buzminski of Oshawa, Ont., won the Historic Brownsville Open yesterday in Texas. That marked the second consecutive win by a Canadian on the Futures Tour after Samantha Richdale of Kelowna, B.C., won the Louisiana Pelican Classic a [...]

Buzz Keeps Her Promise

Angela Buzminski of Oshawa, Ont., made a promise six years ago that she wanted to keep and, since 2003, wanting to win again was about more than just hoisting a crystal trophy and depositing a nice cheque into her bank account. It was about keeping a promise to a friend. The Canadian kept her promise [...]

Playoff Decides Winner Down Mexico Way

Mauricio Molina birdied the final hole of regulation and then parred the first playoff hole to defeat Andy Matthews and capture the Corona Mexican PGA Championship. Matthews three-putted the final hole from 30 feet to force the playoff after both finished at 11 under par 277. Australian Stephen Dartnall closed with a 71 to finish [...]

Raise A Glass to the Coming Season, but Be Responsible

The weekend is supposed to be glorious here in Southern Ontario, with the Saturday temperature around 26 or 27 and Sunday not much lower. That’s not to rub it into other parts of the country that may not get this taste of summer. Rest assured, that warm weather coming to a golf course near you [...]

Ecco Unveils Ultra Performance Shoe

Ecco has introduced it men’s Ultra Performance golf shoe that features its patent-pending Direct-Injected stability system, one-piece construction and an outsole design for support, comfort, flexibility and traction throughout the swing. Ultra Performance is designed to work in tandem with natural features of the human foot. Its stability system is centred around an anatomical last [...]

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