Ian Hutchinson

October is upon us, the leaves are reaching their peak of fall colours and beginning to fall, it’s getting dark earlier and the nights are chilly, but this golf season like no other due to the coronavirus pandemic continues with a surprising number of rounds being put through by most accounts.

Expect the typical stereotypes about golf to be pulled from the bag of tricks possessed by the environmental and food advocacy groups described by a food reporter in this story that was posted Monday by the Toronto Star. On Wednesday, city council in Toronto will decide whether to extend the operating licences for five of […]

After his third place finish at the Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship in the Dominican Republic on Sunday, Mackenzie Hughes is now in the top 50 in the official world golf rankings, moving from 54th to 48th. Hughes is followed by Adam Hadwin (62nd) and Corey Conners (72nd), but Hughes didn’t make the greatest […]

  With October upon us, the golf industry would normally be looking forward to the various buying shows across Canada, but this is 2020. If you’re expecting normal, you’re just not paying attention. The buying shows are either cancelled or virtual presentations and while we haven’t heard officially about the PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando, […]

So many of us us are focused on our hour by hour, day by day duties that we may tune out everyone and everything going on outside the department in which we operate and wind up feeling alone on an island or possibly with castaways who work closely with us. It’s a thought I shared […]

“How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?” Legendary goalie Jacques Plante was talking, of course, about his career between the pipes in the NHL, most notably for the Montreal Canadiens, and while it may be overly dramatic to say it […]

Taylor Pendrith came away with $101,797 for his T23 finish at the U.S. Open at Winged Foot on Sunday and one bit of confidence has can take away is that his final round even par 70 matched the world No. 1 (Dustin Johnson) and one of the guys he tied with on the final leaderboard […]

Temperatures, especially at night into early morning, have at times been a little nippy across the country as we progress through September and, although there are still plenty of warm days ahead, the chilly ones remind us that the season is starting to wind down. There are traditionally two types of golf operations when it […]