By Robert Thompson | June 8, 2010
It wasn’t that long ago that everyone was talking about the challenging of Canada’s young golfers. Now Canadian amateurs have won both of the top US college awards this year, and took one of the top two prizes last year as well.
Yesterday Eugene Wong was named as the Nicklaus Award winner, as voted on by NCAA golf ...read more »
Posted in Breaking News, Canadian Amateur Golfers, Canadian professional golfers, Going for the Green, RCGA | Tagged Canada, Canadian Golfers, charles howell III, Eugene Wong, Hunter Mahan, Jack Nicklaus, Jack Nicklaus Award, Luke Donald, Matt Hill, Nick Taylor, PGA Tour, Phil Mickelson
By Robert Thompson | June 4, 2010
My latest Sympatico column is up — just as Matt Hill exceeds all other Canadians at the Memorial today. That column can be found on Sympatico’s sports site. Interesting to note that Hill always played Titleist clubs — but will be sponsored entirely by Nike now. Tough to make the move to the pros using the ...read more »
Posted in Breaking News, Canadian Amateur Golfers, Canadian professional golfers, Going for the Green, Matt Hill, PGA Tour, Sympatico Columns | Tagged justin leonard, Matt Hill, PGA Tour, Phil Mickelson, rickie fowler, tiger woods
By Robert Thompson | June 2, 2010
Lots of coverage of yesterday’s unveiling of the field yesterday at St. George’s Golf and Country Club.
Toronto Sun writer Dave Fuller played with Nathan Green and found him amiable and great company.
Toronto Star’s Doug Smith, in typical Toronto Star fashion, finds the most interesting point about the tournament is it’s in Toronto:
You try to drop ...read more »
Posted in Breaking News, Business, Canadian golf media, Canadian Open, Canadian professional golfers, Going for the Green, mike weir, tiger woods | Tagged Bill Paul, Canadian Open, Dave Fuller, Doug Smith, Garry McKay, Jeremy Sandler, Lorne Rubenstein, mike weir, Nathan Green, National Post, PGA Tour, Phil Mickelson, rbc canadian open, St. George's Golf and Country Club, tiger woods, toronto sun