National Team Coach Resigns

After 10 years as head coach of the women’s national amateur golf team for both the Royal Canadian Golf Association and Canadian Ladies’ Golf Association, Dean Spriddle is stepping down,
Spriddle said in a release that he planned to focus on family commitments in Lethbridge, Alta., and pursue personal business and coaching ventures.
“While it’s time for [...]

Steve Carroll Steps Away Quietly

I was starting to feel a little slighted as Steve Carroll seemed to be ducking me the past week or so as time wound down on his tenure as executive director of the Canadian PGA.
I briefly spoke with him on Wednesday at the Ontario PGA show, but he said he had a meeting to get [...]

Kyle’s Blog: Notes From the Show

GNN blogger Kyle German got a chance to check out new products at the recent PGA of British Columbia show in Penticton and says he likes some of the trends he’s seeing in both apparel and golf clubs.
It seems like every year or two, apparel seems to switch it up and go from really brights [...]

Janes Named Ontario Club Pro Of The Year

Ron Janes, head professional at Toronto Hunt, has been named the 2009 Ontario PGA Club Professional of the Year after a career that began under the renowned Pat Fletcher at Royal Montreal.
Janes has been head professional at Toronto Hunt since 1996.
“At my age to win this award means a lot, I mean, there are so [...]

Islington To Serve As Open’s Practice Facility

The nearby Islington Golf Club will serve as the practice facility for the 2010 RBC Canadian Open at St. George’s Golf and Country Club.
The private club with a Stanley Thompson design is located about two kilometers away from St. George’s. The practice facility will be constructed on Islington’s first and second holes.
Nearby practice facilities were [...]

Putting In Paradise In Maui

Claude Brousseau smiles with confidence as an earlier prediction he made comes true with the first hint of a trade wind around 9:30 a.m. Brosseau may be a native of Montreal, but he knows his stuff about Maui.
Now a teaching professional at the Kapalua Golf Academy, Brosseau, who was named Golf Professional of the Year [...]

Srixon Introduces Its Z-TX Family

Srixon Sports is introducing its new Z-TX driver, fairway woods and irons, as well as its latest hybrid.
Srixon Z-TX Driver
Starburst variable face technology in the new Z-TX driver is designed to enlarge the driver’s COR by five per cent to add distance, consistency and forgiveness on the tee, as well as decreased power loss on [...]

Tehama Enhances Girl Power

Tehama is introducing the new Golfer Girl Grouping, featuring lady golfers embellished with rhinestones, chain detail, bugle and seed beads on the front of a t-shirt.
The t-shirts are created with a blend of pima cotton, modal and spandex designed to offer a comfortable, lightweight shirt for the golf course and other casual, social functions. The [...]

This Jaws Is Designed To Strike On Land

The new X-Series Jaws wedges feature Callaway’s most aggressive “Mack Daddy” grooves for short game spin control.
These performance wedges have been crafted by Callaway’s renowned designer Roger Cleveland with an advanced triple-net forging to provide precision quality and soft feel.
Cleveland designed the Jaws wedges to be slightly smaller with more curvature in the sole, allowing [...]

Odyssey Offers An Icy Putting Solution

The new White Ice putters come with Multi-Layer Insert Technology that features an inner layer that is 19 per cent firmer than previous Odyssey designs to enhance feel and 92 per cent stiffer for better resiliency for consistent distance control.
The lightweight, multi-layer insert allows weight to be moved back and lower in the putter for [...]

Reed Scales Back Canadian Operation

Reed Exhibitions will operate the Ontario PGA Show, which gets underway Wednesday at the International Centre in Mississauga, Ont., out of its headquarters in Norwalk, Ct., after five employees were let go at its Canadian office in Toronto.
“We’re managing the events from our core teams in the U.S., so the PGA Merchandise Show out of [...]

CGIA, Zones Are Settling Their Issues In Tough Times

Keith Keindel admits he was a little surprised when he heard Reed Exhibitions, which operates the Ontario PGA Show, was for all intents and purposes shutting down its Canadian operation and running the Ontario show out of its headquarters in Norwalk, Ct.
However, the executive director of the Canadian Golf Industry Association understands that there are [...]

Canadian Honoured By Henry-Griffitts

Steve Koncz of Golf Unlimited in Simcoe, Ont., has won the Randy Henry Award at Henry-Griffitts’ annual Super School in Coeur da Alene, Id.
The award is named after one of the company founders and given to a company certified teacher who carries out practices such as evaluating student’s equipment in lessons, always having the teacher’s [...]

Travel Tip: Go For It This Fall

The fall buying show season is winding down in Canada and the time is right for a quick getaway to actually play some golf. Actually, the time is also right due to the number of deals that out there these days.
Check out the GNN travel section here and take a look at the price being [...]

Bridgestone Expands Its Ball-Fitting

Tournament Sports, based in Waterloo, Ont., will have three teams of fitters traveling throughout Ontario, Western Canada and Quebec in 2010 to conduct clinics as part of the Bridgestone Golf Ball Fitting Challenge.
“At facilities where we held ball fitting clinics, sales of Bridgestone balls increased from 30 to 50 per cent,” said Tournament Sports’ director [...]

Nancy’s Showing The TAE Series

The new TAE Series from Nancy Lopez Golf features a 440 c.c. driver that is available in 14 and 16 degree lofts. The four-piece, forged 6A4V driver also has an offset design, as do the TAE Series fairway woods.
The TAE fairways are constructed from hyper steel, which allows for a thinner face with greater strength [...]

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