Ottawa Golf Courses Bringing Surf Style To Their Fairways
Two Ottawa area golf courses will break new ground in 2014 when it comes to how you get around during a round of golf. Last week at the PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando, Florida, a […]
January 2014
GolfTEC Opening In Ottawa
While their location is yet to be determined it appears that GolfTEC will be opening their 11th location in Canada in the Nation’s Capital. This will be their 3rd location in Ontario, joining Richmond Hill […]
Henderson Wins The Sally; Fritsch Makes The Cut
Brooke Henderson got her 2014 off to a familiar start on Saturday. The 16 year-old from Smiths Falls locked up yet another tournament win. This one was at the prestigious South Atlantic Amateur “The Sally”, […]
The Friday Mix – Here & There In Ottawa & Area Golf News
Fritsch Starts Strong, Henderson Continues To Lead, The Waiting Game at Pine View, GAO Regional Team, & Club Pro News Brad Fritsch is starting his fourth event of the 2013/2014 wrap-around season at the Humana Challenge (La […]
Brooke Henderson Leads "The Sally"
The Smiths Falls sensation is at it again. Sixteen year-old Brooke Henderson, fresh off a recent win at the Jr. Orange Bowl Championship in Florida is making noise in that state once again. The 2013 […]
FootJoy DryJoys Take Their Next Step – The D.N.A.
Over a month, piece by piece, the new FootJoy D.N.A. shoe wandered into my office. A concerted media campaign by the company to highlight individual technologies saw a collar, a tongue, an outsole, and an […]
The GM Shift – Moves Underway In Eastern Ontario
Typical of every golf off-season, there are plenty of job shifts happening in Eastern Ontario these days. A few weeks ago we brought you news of General Manager changes at Carleton Golf & Yacht Club […]
Coming Soon? New Jr. Girls’ World Golf Championship
From information gathered over the last few months it appears that talks of a new World Junior Girl’s Golf Championship (U18) to be hosted in Canada are much closer to becoming a reality. It could […]
Masters of The Blade – The Miura MB-001
The dead of Canadian winter might not be the best time to receive golf clubs for testing I didn’t put up much fuss when a spanking new demo 6-iron of the Miura Golf MB-0o1 showed […]
Weir Splits With Waite, TMAG Does The PGA Show, FJ DNA
Just a couple rambling notes as I sit watching the final round of the Sony Open in Hawaii and continue preparations for attending the 2014 PGA Merchandise Show that starts in just over a week. […]
Fritsch Misses Cut At Sony Open
A sloppy back nine derailed Ottawa’s Brad Fritsch on Friday at the PGA TOUR’s Sony Open in Hawaii. Even par for the tournament and one back of the projected cut line after 27 holes, Fritsch […]
PGA TOUR Canada Finale To Feature Elite 60
The PGA TOUR Canada announced Thursday that their final tournament of the 2014 season, the TOUR Championship of Canada presented by Freedom 55 Financial will only feature the top 60 players from the Order of Merit. Taking place […]
New PGA Tour App, Brad Fritsch From Hawaii, PGA of Ottawa
With the 2014 PGA TOUR season already into it’s second full event of the calendar year the TOUR is now offering an enhanced new official app for iPhone and Android operating systems. The Tour says […]
Nike Golf VR X3X Toe Sweep – Don’t Judge A Wedge By Its “Cover”
If you troll the major golf equipment chat rooms on the Internet, one thing becomes clear, people draw conclusions quickly about a new product simply based on looks alone. While aesthetics can have some psychological […]
On The Tours – Big & Small
The PGA Tour’s Hyundai Tournament of Champions wrapped up Monday night. It proved to be the 11th PGA Tour victory for Zach Johnson, outplaying Jordan Spieth by a single stroke. It was strong showing for […]
TaylorMade Introduces Three New Irons
If you’ve been waiting awhile for new Tour Preferred irons from TaylorMade than you’ll be very happy today. The three new models of Tour Preferred Irons are available at retail immediately. Targeted at “players” the […]
ClubLink Still Shopping?
The final days of 2013 brought news that Canada’s largest golf course operator, ClubLink, had acquired the TPC Eagle Trace golf property in south Florida. It seems their shopping spree might not yet be over. […]
Canadian Golf Journalists Recognize Top Players
The votes are in and the members of the Golf Journalists Association of Canada have made their choices known in their annual Players of the Year Awards. On the amateur side of the board Eastern […]
Claude and Daniel Leclair
Brother Act Families and business are often a unpredictable mix. The emotions cased by the fusion of the two can frequently result in all sorts of catastrophic situations. That is hardly the case for the […]
Change Is In The Air – DeLaet to Puma, Els to Adams
With the turning of the calendar to a new year contractual changes are in full flight among pro golfers. Months of speculation about what companies players will endorse this year is ending as new contracts […]