Robert Thompson's Going For The Green

The archives (2004-2006) continue to be here, but course reviews and up-to-date commentary is at: http://canadiangolfer.com/g4g .

As I've been warning, G4G is moving away from the blogger platform, though the G4G archieves will continue to reside here for the time b...

For those interested, here is a story I did with Tim Hortons' co-founder Ron Joyce in 2003 as a cover story for Ontario Golf. As many kn...

Apparently getting hit by one of Phil Mickelson's errant bombs off the tee can be a good thing -- especially if he smashes your watch! G...

In case any of my readers care, I was on national television this morning talking about a business story that is on the front of Financial P...

GolfNorth, a Waterloo-based golf company partially owned by Research in Motion CEO Jim Balsillie, has acquired Paris Grand out of bankruptcy...

Lorne Rubenstein writes today on Ian Andrew and his new golf design firm. To be open, Ian and I are good friends and speak regularly. But I...

According to a story on the Golf Channel last night, both Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus are critical of the changes to Augusta National t...

There was a tournament in Tuscon over the weekend that no one pays any attention to because it goes head-to-head with the Matchplay champion...

He's likely the best known and most expensive designer in the world, but Tom Fazio hasn't worked in Canada since developing the Nati...

So Greg Norman thinks all of the changes at Augusta are good -- even better, in fact, than the way the course played when he threw up on him...

So renegade upstart Canadian golf architect (and my good friend) Ian Andrew has started a golf blog called "The Caddy Shack." So f...

Only four days until G4G makes its big move to another site. I'll post something about it next week. More on the AP versus Carloyn Biven...

Calgary's Stephen Ames was probably joking when, prior to the Accenture Matchplay start yesterday, he told reporters in California that ...

Another golf course is turning to Rees Jones to make it worthy of the USGA. The latest is Chicago's Cog Hill, which hosts the Western Op...