Courtesy: Diamond In The Ruff After playing golf this past weekend, I am convinced that what the world needs more of are nine-hole courses. Not the typical, poorly maintained, scrubby nine-hole...
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Royal Birkdale The Open begins today. That's "Open" as in British Open. But in the U.K., they call it simply The Open, as in "can there really be another?" Royal Birkdale is...
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Our recent golf trip to Prince Edward Island took us to a course we hadn't played in previous visits - Dundarave (see my previous post) - and to a long-standing favorite that we'd played...
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Dundarave Golf Club, P.E.I. During U-S Open week, my wife and I had the pleasure of spending 4 days in one of our favorite golf destinations - Prince Edward Island. I have written before about golf on...
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The Donald arrived in Scotland on Wednesday to attend a public inquiry into his controversial golf resort project slated for Aberdeenshire. After his plans for what has been described by critics as a...
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The Trump Golf International project in the northeast of Scotland - the one causing tremendous dispute and environmental concerns - is on hold at least until June. That's why there hasn't...
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Courtesy: Greg Hand It's now the halfway point in February. Only four weeks until Spring. Another eight weeks until Spring really arrives in the snowy North. Golf is back on network TV with...
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The latest chapter in Donald Trump's enormous Scottish golf resort project has been written and the conclusion doesn't seem in sight. Trump and his minions appeared before an all-party...
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There were some highly misleading headlines just before Christmas regarding Donald Trump's star-crossed mega-golf project for northeast Scotland. I have blogged about the project at some length...
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Donald Trump's Scottish golf project (or is it fiasco?) has taken yet another turn. You'll recall that the Scottish Parliament stepped in after the local infrastructure committee of the...
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The Dunes of Aberdeenshire Martin Ford has been fired, the first and probably not the last casualty in the Trump Scotland golf controversy. Ford was head of the planning committee for Aberdeenshire...
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My, my, what a surprise. The Scottish parliament has wrestled the massive Trump golf project out of the hands of the local Aberdeenshire Council whose planning committee rejected the proposal nearly...
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Courtesy: Western Gailes, Scotland We've been on a wee bit of a Scottish thing lately thanks to The Donald. I came across this story in the Scotsman newspaper written by Sam Torrance....
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Courtesy: PA Here's one more post on Donald Trump's star-crossed project to build what he calls "the greatest links golf courses in Scotland as part of a golf development that will become...
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Courtesy: Wyboo G.C., South Carolina There are a little less than three weeks left of autumn but if you're a Canadian this morning, you'd swear it was mid-January. We got whacked by an early...
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Aberdeenshire, Scotland Donald Trump has been narrowly rejected by a group of seven individuals who comprise the "infrastructure services committee" of the Aberdeenshire Council in...
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Courtesy: Trump Golf Michael Forbes was no one in particular until The Donald blew into his part of the world (see yesterday's post). Trump is planning a massive and massively expensive golf...
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Courtesy: WireImage.com In 1983, Burt Lancaster starred in a film called Local Hero. It was about an oil tycoon who wanted to buy a Scottish fishing village in order to exploit the offshore oil in...
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Thundering Waters, Niagara Falls, ON Very often when we hear about golf courses under threat from development, that development is coming from "outside", in other words, the threat comes...
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The 1st at West Hill In 1907, a Scottish professional named Cuthbert Butchart was commissioned to build a golf course just outside Guildford in Surrey, England. Butchart created West Hill Golf Club,...
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Courtesy: St. Andrew's golf vacations Dean Barnett wrote it but it was on Jeffrey Prest's fine site that I stumbled upon it: an article about the state of golf course architecture today that...
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The 7th at Strawberry Hill Courtesy: Strawberry Hill Golf Club How much do the English love their golf? A great deal, if the number of courses in a small geographical area is any indication. And when...
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