Golf

Richard “Disco Dick” Zokol is a legendary Canadian golfer with just as legendary a success story off the course. This is a Cinderella tale of perseverance and quiet panache, sprinkled throughout with Zokol’s humour and […]

T.S. Eliot wrote in his masterpiece The Waste Land that April is the “cruellest” month. In the century since the modern epic poem’s publication, literary critics have devoted hundreds of hours to dissecting its meaning. […]

After playing my final golf game of the season, putting my clubs away in the basement and ruminating for far too long, I decided to write my latest column on the “short of it.” The […]

As I sat down to write this latest column, Netflix had just released Happy Gilmore 2. The sequel to the 1996 movie starring Adam Sandler was an ace in terms of viewership. According to Variety, […]

I write this column sitting in the media centre during the 2025 RBC Canadian Open at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley. With one week until Father’s Day, I figured what better topic to ruminate on […]

By the time you read this, the Masters will be over and Canada’s lone stop on the PGA Tour – the RBC Canadian Open (June 4-8 at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley) – will be […]

As the days grow shorter and I turn the clocks back — ending Daylight Savings Time for another year, my mind ruminates on time and how it relates to the game I love, but never […]

Procrastination is not my friend. That is why I need deadlines. Yet, despite these due dates, I sometimes extend them – asking my editors for forgiveness and a few days’ grace. Like now! After weeks […]

Golf in our home and native land is booming. According to a recently released Canadian Golf Economic Impact Study, in 2023, Canadians played an estimated 74 million rounds of golf (compared to 57 million rounds […]

It’s the second day of spring as I write this column from North Redington Beach, Florida, where I’m lucky to get a respite from Ontario’s wintery weather. Mother Nature remains moody. For snowbirds returning home […]