Chrome Tour Ball Just as it is essential to be fitted for your golf clubs, so is the necessity to find the ball and putter that best suits your game. The newest addition to Callaway’s tour-level golf ball lineup is the Chrome Tour Ball, priced at...
No matter how you slice it, the bulk of golf enthusiasts in the Coachella Valley are seniors aged 65 and up. The departure of the Dinah Shore/Nabisco/ANA ladies’ major from the valley left many local golf aficionados and visitors longing for the...
The FJ Flex #56287 Golf Shoe $99.99 www.footjoy.com One of the most important pieces of golf equipment is shoes. Over the years, I have reviewed many brands, material compositions, spiked and spikeless, laced, and BOA Fit System shoes. One of the very...
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf If there was ever a golf course where yardage means next to nothing, it’s most definitely the Devon Golf & Conference Centre. The top distance on this river valley beauty is a whopping 5,559 yards. Yes,...
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf After a three-year timeout, the PGA of Alberta Golf Shows are set to return with organizers hoping everyone, vendors and the public, get a bigger bang for their buck. Trevor Rioux, the event manager, said there is lots...
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf Spark Golf is a friendly way to meet other golfers and the idea seems to be catching fire. At present, there are 21 courses involved in the Calgary (11) and Edmonton (10) areas, plus one in Red Deer, along with leagues...
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf SHERWOOD PARK, Alberta — In for a dime, in for a dollar. That was the philosophy behind the idea the Jack Nicklaus-designed Northern Bear GC’s management took to the PGA TOUR Canada and the tour bought in. And that...
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf CALGARY, Alberta — While this isn’t exactly the storyline of that great Christmas movie The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, it appears that some sort of evil being has stuck a lump of coal in the stockings of...
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf EDMONTON, Alberta — The one thing golfers like more than playing the game is talking about the game. That’s being proven week after week during the season on Edmonton radio. The TSN 1260 VIP Golf Show is now headed into...
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf PARKLAND COUNTY, Alberta — It will be a bit longer before the delivery of the new nine holes at the Trestle Creek Golf Resort. Head professional Art New explained what’s taking place with the expansion of the 18-hole...
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf SURREY, British Columbia — Part of this assignment was to eat. After climbing out of bed on our second day, it was off to breakfast and Western-style foods this time. We set up camp at the retro Roadhouse Grille where...
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, Inside Golf CALGARY, Alberta — Let’s face it: Chances of recording a hole-in-one are pretty remote, especially for weekend warriors. Odds are set at 12,500 to 1. And your reward for that all-time great shot? Likely buying rounds of...
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...
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf When you come right down to it, the PGA of Alberta Golf Show, which runs in Calgary on March 17 and 18 in Hall D at the BMO Centre, is a win-win deal for both golf vendors and consumers. After all, for those with...
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf EDMONTON, Alberta — In an effort to continue growing its Youth on Course program, Alberta Golf has gained financial support through the PGA TOUR Canada stop in Edmonton, by teaming up with the Northern Bear GC at the ATB...
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf Some of the most enjoyable golf one can experience is often in unexpected places. Many of those places across Alberta lie in rural areas, where small towns don’t mean small layouts. These courses provide some of the most...
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf WHITECOURT, Alberta — A word of advice from a golf guy — if you haven’t been to the Whitecourt Golf & Country Club for a while, get there as quickly as you can. If you have teed it up at this wonderful layout recently,...
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf At the Sirocco Golf Club in Calgary, what you see isn’t always what you’re going to get. A phenomenon known locally as the Sirocco Swirl means you could well be playing a different course today than when...
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf SPRUCE GROVE, Alberta — When Jeff Cuthbertson, the executive pro at the Stony Plain GC that played host to the Alberta Assistants Championship, told the winner, Calgary’s Wes Heffernan, that Team Alberta...