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by Chris Henry on January 20, 2009
Courtesy: Viet Nam Tourism
Golf is a healing game, it turns out.
That truth surprises me a bit because I know golf to be a game that also tears wounds deep into the psyche.
But it heals, as well. ...
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by Chris Henry on January 4, 2009
Once upon a time in Zimbabwe...
There is a fine piece in golf Digest about the state of golf in Zimbabwe.
As we know, Robert Mugabe, once a responsible leader, has taken an economy that was thriving...
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by Chris Henry on August 25, 2008
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 lay...
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by Chris Henry on July 17, 2008
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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by Chris Henry on June 22, 2008
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 twi...
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by Chris Henry on June 21, 2008
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 ...
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by Chris Henry on June 12, 2008
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...
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by Chris Henry on March 22, 2008
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 b...
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by Chris Henry on February 19, 2008
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 sign...
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by Chris Henry on February 10, 2008
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 commi...
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by Chris Henry on January 2, 2008
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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by Chris Henry on December 19, 2007
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 Aber...
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by Chris Henry on December 12, 2007
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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by Chris Henry on December 7, 2007
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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by Chris Henry on December 6, 2007
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.
Scotland&#...
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by Chris Henry on December 4, 2007
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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by Chris Henry on December 3, 2007
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 earl...
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by Chris Henry on December 1, 2007
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 northea...
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by Chris Henry on November 26, 2007
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 res...
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by Chris Henry on November 25, 2007
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 t...
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by Chris Henry on October 25, 2007
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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by Chris Henry on October 20, 2007
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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by Chris Henry on October 17, 2007
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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by Chris Henry on October 16, 2007
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 wh...
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by Chris Henry on October 9, 2007
Courtesy: Mount Oswald Golf Club, Durham, England
It didn't take long for an eagleparbirdie.com reader to respond to my post about the impending demise of Golden West Golf Club in Edmonton, Albe...
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by Chris Henry on September 26, 2007
Courtesy: AP Photo/CP
When we think of royalty, we often think of history and tradition.
History and tradition are two of the hallmarks in the world of golf. And those two chief characteristics of...
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by Chris Henry on August 26, 2007
Courtesy: Niagara Parks Commission
There are many examples of government involvement in the private sector. There are also many examples where that involvement has not been productive.
In Canada, ...
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by Chris Henry on August 14, 2007
Courtesy: North Granite Ridge, Port Sydney, Ontario
There are many truths in the game of golf. But one stands out for me today.
It's the maxim that you can leave the Big Stick in the bag and sti...
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by Chris Henry on July 20, 2007
Courtesy: Whirlpool Golf Club, Niagara Falls, Ontario
I wrote a few months back about a golf course I had played in Germany many years ago that was alongside a runway used by F-104s for touch-and-go ...
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by Chris Henry on July 8, 2007
Courtesy: SportingWales.com
Here's a tip for Canadian billionaire, Jim Balsillie, of Research in Motion fame (the Blackberry people).
Balsillie has tried twice now to throw his enormous financia...
