The Faux Pas At Fox Harb’r

A few wise apples have made comments about that photo of me holding a sport shooting gun at Fox Harb’r in Wallace, N.S., most saying they were glad they were in other provinces when I had a firearm in my hands. A couple of days after that blog appeared on Tuesday, I’m a bit tardy [...]

Gar Hamilton To Retire In 2011

Gar Hamilton, one of Canada’s best-known club professionals and a highly-respected competitive player, will retire from the Mississaugua Golf and Country Club at the end of next year, his 23rd with that club. “It just feels like the time is right to make the move,” said Hamilton, 61. “It feels like I have been living [...]

Ontario Names Titleist Cup Team

The Ontario PGA has announced its team which will compete in the 2010 Titleist Cup against the Quebec PGA at Royal Quebec Golf Club Oct. 7-8. “I am very happy with the composition of our team heading to Quebec,” said a Ontario captain  Gar Hamilton. “We have a great mix of character, leadership and veteran [...]

Public Courses Belong In Open Rotation

The decision to hold the 2012 RBC Canadian Open at Hamilton Golf and Country Club was greeted with positive ink in the media, not surprising considering the conventional thinking when it comes to locations for our national championship. Hamilton got a mass thumbs-up from players in the Open’s previous two stops in Ancaster, Ont., and [...]

Staffing Issues Affect Customer Service

We’re still busy here at Point Roberts, but there’s not much staff left because a lot of them have gone back to school. Staffing issues are common for golf courses at this time of year, but the problem is magnified with Point Roberts located in the State of Washington. Our biggest concern is that we [...]

Abacus Introduces New Chinos

Abacus has introduced Hillside Chinos in cotton stretch twill with a straight cut, two front pockets and one back pocket. The lining is trimmed with prints, pocket details and decorated tapes and the Hillsides feature a Nano-Tex treatment to provide stain protection and repel liquids. Abacus has also introduced the Banchory Knitted Wind Stop, a [...]

Sport Shooting Offers Unique Touch At Fox Harb’r

It was more a matter of inconvenience than imminent danger when Stan, our Jetport pilot, informed us somewhere over Lake Ontario that he had to turn the plane around and return to Hamilton when a crack formed on the windshield. Nobody complained and with good reason, but it did delay our flight east to Fox [...]

So Much For That Late Fall We Wanted In Alberta

As I’ve mentioned in previous blogs, I was really optimistic about extending the season into the fall after we were hit with nasty weather at the beginning. Last year, we had a good three-week run in September when we were getting warmer temperatures than in the summer. This year, we haven’t had a day over [...]

MP-53s and MP-63s Have Diamond Muscle Design

MP-53 The new MP-53 irons from Mizuno feature a Diamond Muscle design and V slot milled pocket cavity, while maintaining the head size, playing profile and top line of the MP family of clubs. The CNC milled Pocket Cavity removes 14 grams of weight, which is redistributed around the cavity to achieve a large sweet [...]

Networking At Shows Identifies Trends/Hot Products

I’ve always said I enjoy the social aspect of attending the buying shows, but that means more than just catching up with people you haven’t seen because of a busy schedule over the golf season. There’s a business side to networking at the shows and part of that is spotting new, hot products and identifying [...]

Is Golf All Talk/Little Action On Issues?

When the Play Golf Summit was held in Toronto five years ago, it almost seemed as if the challenges facing golf had been eliminated and we were heading into a golden era for the game. Yes, that is an exaggeration, but the vibes coming out of that meeting of the minds were extremely positive after [...]

Hypnosis Is Next Step As I Try To Read Greens

I recently got back from the British Columbia PGA Championship in Whistler, where I had a bad back nine. If not for that, I might have moved up to second or third, but it wasn’t to be. I called a sports psychologist, who specializes in hypnosis. I’ve never tried it before and I’m just getting [...]

Miura Adds Y And C Wedges To Series 1957

Miura Golf has added the Yoshitaka Grind wedges and C-Grind wedges to its Series 1957 special edition product line. The new wedges join four iron models in the Series 1957. Both new mild-steel wedge models undergo the same precision forging finish as the irons. The Yoshitaka, or Y-Grind wedges, are available in 49, 51 and [...]

Problems/Solutions Are At Golf’s Grassroots

What better way to spend the Labour Day weekend than with an old buddy playing at a golf course that hasn’t made anybody’s rankings to my knowledge, but who cares? For all we knew, it could be the last long weekend that we could play and way too much time was spent behind the computer [...]

Demand Needs To Catch Up To Supply

I talk with a lot of other golf facilities in our area and I find that participation in golf is great. The problem is that five or 10 years ago, we just overbuilt and now demand isn’t keeping up with supply. I think that people are still loving golf, spending some money and playing, but [...]

Cable Knit Sweaters Highlight Abacus Women’s Wear

The autumn/winter collection from Abacus is designed to be a fusion between town and country, with women’s garments drawing inspiration from the ‘50s and ‘60s, including cable-knitted sweaters. The first group includes traditional colours such as dark sea blue, navy blue, dark red and vanilla, while the other group is collection-specific with sulphur yellow, orchid, [...]

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