By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf EDMONTON, Alberta — Look good. Play good. That’s a philosophy held by many and while Jared Van Dyke can’t help you play better golf, he can certainly help you look better while playing golf. Van Dyke, the owner of...
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf PARKLAND COUNTY, Alberta — It’s 4:30 on a summer Monday afternoon and the parking lot at Glacier Greens Golf Course is filled with excited voices as kids clamber out of their parents’ vehicle. It’s not because they’re...
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf EDMONTON, Alberta — Golf is full of unexpected but happy surprises. Your off-line drive hits a tree and bounds back into the middle of the fairway; your approach shot is hit fat but lands on a sprinkler...
your breath a little bit!” as you finish your round on this course that has, in the past, made it onto Score Golf’s Top 15 Alberta Public Courses as both a place to play and for course conditions. In order to get ready to undertake this continually...
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf CALGARY, Alberta — Sometimes, the most noise you hear on a golf course is what’s going on inside your own head. At the Valley Ridge Golf Club in Calgary, that’s more than likely the case. Although it’s...
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf SPRUCE GROVE, Alberta — If the Ranch Golf & Country Club was good enough for the Canadian Tour back in the day, then it’s certainly good enough for Canada’s top assistant club professionals. That will be...
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf STRATHMORE, Alberta — If you’re teeing it up at the Strathmore Golf Club, you best have your game face on right away. According to the professional staff there, the toughest tests come early on. Executive...
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf ROCK VIEW COUNTY, Alberta — If the rest of your family isn’t into golf like you are and you hate to leave them behind when you go out for a round, we have a solution to that problem: The Apple Creek Golf...
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf CALGARY, Alberta — If you’re a fan of old-style golf courses where precision matters more than power and a short game trumps long bombs, then the Inglewood Golf & Curling Club in Calgary fits the bill...
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf EDMONTON, Alberta — While excuses for not extracting oneself from a bunker are plentiful — “not enough sand;” “too much sand;” “thinned it;” “this wasn’t raked properly” — one thing that won’t be plentiful...
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf SHERWOOD PARK, Alberta — Despite a fire that caused literally millions of dollars in damage this past January, the Northern Bear Golf Course, which is located east of Edmonton, is ready to roar in 2024. In...