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...
at 2-under given their handicap. At the Cliffs, a couple of hours later, they started “a bit sluggish but picked it up coming into the house, making eagle on the last hole,” Schubert recalled moving the team into the middle of the pack score-wise. On...
the 14-year-old, carded rounds of 74, 71, 69, and 67 for a total score of 3-under 281, en route to the national title. Coming into the final round Park carded three birdies overall during round three, two birdies back-to-back on the front, one on the...
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf STONY PLAIN, Alberta — While Wes Heffernan showed brilliance with his long game in the 36-hole Cobra Puma Golf Alberta PGA Assistants Championship at the Stony Plain GC, it was a 14-foot eagle putt...
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 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 SPRUCE GROVE, Alberta — Say what you want about some of the shortcomings of simulator golf, but it does serve a purpose in improving our outdoor game. That’s the word coming from a man who should know, Ryan Latta, a...
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf PALM DESERT, California — As a travelling golfer, the one thing you want when taking on a new course is to be wowed by everything put in front of you, running from the parking lot through the 19th hole. At...
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf Two Albertans, long known for their work in the golf industry at the amateur and professional levels, have been honoured by Golf Canada with Distinguished Service Awards, for their efforts to foster the...
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, 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, Senior Writer, Inside Golf NORTH POLE, Alberta — Okay, I’ll admit it: it’s time to drag my wallet out of my pocket and fork over some hard-earned cash for Christmas golf gifts for those special people on my list. But most golfers I...
By Dr. Barry Lotz, Inside Golf Every so often there are major breakthroughs in the golf industry in every category. This Korean company, SJ Golf Engineering Lab, headed by Dr. Seung-jin Choi, the inventor of FreeFlex Technology, is the creator of this...
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, Inside Golf EDMONTON, Alberta — A program designed to not only teach children about golf but also about life skills is close to teeing off in Alberta. First Tee is Golf Canada’s youth development program that provides children with...
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 Dr. Barry Lotz, Inside Golf Say what you may, but the majority of Coachella Valley’s golf enthusiasts belong in the senior category, that is 65 plus. With the Dinah Shore/Nabisco/ANA Ladies’ major leaving the valley, many of the local golf lovers...
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 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 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...