What Happens In Vegas Won’t Stay In Vegas

Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada. Hopefully, I’ll see that landmark sign across from the Bali Hai Golf Club which, according to my preliminary itinerary, I may be playing after a group of us touch down in Vegas on Sunday. What’s intriguing about that sign, first erected in 1959 and located at the south end [...]

Winter Storm Shows How Things Change Quickly

If you’ve been paying attention to the news and weather, you’ll be aware that we’ve been hit by a major winter storm, which illustrates that anything can happen in the golf industry. A lot of the golf courses in Alberta opened in good shape and wintered really well, so this will provide some great moisture. [...]

TOUR360 Goes Sporty

With many of the same technologies as the Tour360 4.0 shoe from adidas, the new Sport version adds climate-control technologies. A first-time feature of the Tour360 4.0 Sport is the implementation of the ion-mask nano coating to protect the mesh upper of the shoe by providing water repellency and stain reduction without sacrificing breathability and [...]

Backstryke Goes For Forward Press

A forward press putting style is the objective of the new Backstryke line of putters from Odyssey. “Backstryke offers a compelling combination of benefits designed to improve the way players align, stroke and roll the ball,” said Austie Rollinson, principal designer for Odyssey. “The shaft lean found in Backstryke encourages a forward press putting style [...]

Brozer Goes Dutch With A Helpful Site

As I mentioned in yesterday’s blog, Kim Brozer of Red Deer, Alta., has a passion for many of the points brought up in the Canadian Tour’s recent white paper, entitled Bridging the Gap, which studies the financial struggles faced by players in the early days of their pro careers. Kim and I chatted via e-mail [...]

CPGA Championship Is Part Of Our Heritage

The return of the Canadian PGA Championship would be great for the association, especially with our 100th anniversary coming up in 2011. I think for a faction of Canadian PGA members who come from a playing background or know the tradition of the event, it’s huge. There are a lot of newer members of the [...]

Women Need Input Into “Bridging The Gap”

Dawn Anderson, the director of brand management for what is now Golf Canada, raised an eyebrow in my direction at last week’s press conference at Glen Abbey and took me to task for something I’d written in a blog last week. If you recall, I mentioned that the silhouette on the Golf Canada logo was [...]

Rubenstein To Write CPGA Articles

Lorne Rubenstein, a member of the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame, will write a monthly article on the Canadian PGA’s website, www.cpga.com. The article, entitled The Final Putt, will be delivered to the inboxes of 3,600 Canadian PGA professionals and members of the association’s public subscriber list. The first installment of The Final Putt will [...]

Hearn, Mills, Tour Stuff And More…

In one sense, the past couple of weeks have been disappointing for David Hearn of Brantford, Ont., who would love nothing more than to get his second Nationwide Tour win and he came so tantalizingly close on two occasions without getting it done. As Hearn pointed out when we spoke last week, the main objective [...]

Tour Talk On CPGA Radio

Season 2 | Show 4 | April 24, 2010

• David Hearn: The Nationwide Tour player from Brantford, Ont., joins the show to talk about his second-place finish last week at the Fresh Express Classic, what it does for his chances of a 2011 PGA Tour card and growing up at Brantford Golf and Country Club.
• David Skitt: The vice president of events for Synchro Sports, the company behind the new Champions Tour event in Montreal talks about what it took to make it happen and will give us some insight into which players he expects to attend.

Ping Shoe Bag Prevents Scuffing

A new shoe sack from PING is lined with velour to protect shoes from scuffing inside the bag. It’s made with durable nylon with inferno red accents, has a draw string closure with cord locks and is 8.5 inches long by 15 inches high. Customization is available.

Alternative To Golf Canada Rebranding Is Program Cuts

You don’t go very long in this business without getting your knuckles rapped for being honest about a topic, so after 32 years, some of the responses to Friday’s blog about the Golf Canada rebranding didn’t come as a big surprise. You can read that blog and the comments below it here, but it went [...]

Hearn, Mills Look Good For PGA Tour Cards

He obviously would have preferred his second Nationwide Tour win yesterday at the South Georgia Classic, but solid play by David Hearn of Brantford, Ont., the past two weeks has put him in good shape to regain his PGA Tour card. Hearn, who last won on the Nationwide Tour at the 2004 Alberta Classic, went [...]

Brazilian Continues Runner-Up Act

The law of averages suggests one day, probably soon, Brazilian Lucas Lee is going to win a Canadian Tour event. Rob Grube just made sure it wasn’t Sunday during the final round of the Riviera Nayarit Classic in Nayarit, Mexico. Grube capped off a week in which he held at least a share of the [...]

Golf Canada More About Funding Than Branding

Repackaging and rebranding are quite often tactics used by corporations and other groups to sell the sizzle without throwing a new steak on the barbie. Newspapers, for example, will go through redesigns to offer a fresh, new look their readers or a company that sells sport drinks will funnel its product into new bottles with [...]

Golf Canada Unveils…Golf Canada

Golf Canada has officially become the new public identity of the Royal Canadian Golf Association, a name that has been around since 1895. “Our operating structure and the day to day operation of our business will remain the same, but going forward, we will be working under the new Golf Canada brand,” said Golf Canada [...]

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