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, Senior Writer, Inside Golf INDIAN WELLS, California — After surveying the terrain at this municipally-owned divot-digging property, it’s no wonder that other munis around the world wish they could grow up to be compared to the...
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf PALM DESERT, California — As any younger sibling knows, it’s sometimes tough living up to your older sister’s/brother’s reputation and that’s exactly the case for the Mountain View layout at the Desert...
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...
beauty is a whopping 5,559 yards. Yes, that is the correct yardage and not a typo. But where this 18-hole layout makes up for its shortness is in its challenges. Some of the fairways are wide and beckoning, but at the same time, there are those where...
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf Every golfer’s dream is of course to can a tee shot. That’s exactly what 15-year-old Tyler Kidd did recently, but then he went one step beyond. Kidd, who was playing in the Priddis Greens G&CC club...
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, Inside Golf PARKLAND COUNTY, Alberta — With over 85 wildfires raging across north-central Alberta, many golf courses have found themselves close to the infernos, but as of yet, none that Inside Golf was able to contact have suffered...
During January’s 65th edition of The American Express, a key fixture of the PGA TOUR’s California circuit nestled in the expansive desert of the Coachella Valley, an unexpected challenger stole the spotlight. Since its inception in 1960, The American...
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf SURREY, British Columbia — With the influx of advertising highlighting British Columbia hitting Alberta’s visual markets over the past while, including the much-ballyhooed Surrey Spice Trail, it seemed only fitting that...
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, Inside Golf EDMONTON, Alberta — When Dunc Mills’ mother, Marion Kolthammer, introduced him to the game of golf oh so many decades ago, she likely had no idea where that would lead her son. As it turned out, it was most likely a lot...
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf CALGARY, Alberta — With a scorecard that read more like one from a Texas Scramble than a tournament round — birdie, birdie, birdie to finish regulation play and then birdie, birdie, par, birdie to end a playoff —...
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 Dr. Barry Lotz, Inside Golf Each year, we are exposed to so many great new golf products and this year is no exception. Whatever you choose, any one of these products will make Dad extremely happy and grateful. These products are some of the very...
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 LA QUINTA, California — It’s one thing to be a spectator at a PGA TOUR event, trying to keep up with players as they make their appointed rounds. For one Stony Plain, AB, couple, keeping pace with...
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf LA QUINTA, California — Set hard against the Santa Rosa Mountains, it’s hard to say what’s better at Silver Rock Resort golf course: the scenery or the golf course itself. As the former home of the Bob...
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf It’s hard to say which of two major announcements (well, one for sure and the other a pretty solid rumour) that hit the air on February 28 is the biggest. But, we’ll start with the one that is known for sure. The LPGA is...
By Dr. Barry Lotz, Inside Golf These are two of the best training aids currently available and carry the endorsement of the PGTAA (www.PGTAA.com). In my opinion, Tour Aim Golf is one the best golf training aids ever to come to market. It is simple and...