Royal Niagara GC Review

Believe it or not, I played my first round of golf in 2002 on Thursday the 3rd of April.  Somehow I snuck in 18 holes across the big ditch in Niagara-On-The-Lake, at the humbling Royal Niagara Golf Club.  I had hoped for 27, but frost precluded all but a cart tour of...

Elkdale CC Review

The Elkdale Country Club is a living catch-22; it deserves a wider reputation than it has, yet it might suffer for it.  A tremendous course on Route 353 in Salamanca, less than twenty minutes from Ellicottville, Elkdale is a public club with the fastest, most...

The Amateur Factor At The Masters

Bobby Jones, co-founder with Clifford Roberts of the Augusta National Golf Club, lives to this day as the consummate amateur golf figure. Blessed with inordinate grace, skill, concentration and enthusiasm, Jones assembled the finest life amateur record of any male...

Five Men Who Could Win The Masters

There are not many people walking the planet who are physically capable of winning The Masters. This year only 99 of the world’s best players are even invited to the tournament. The odds of a person winning are less than one in a 10 million. And, still, every golfer...

Groove Misconceptions

Well – it happened again last weekend during the Accenture Match Play Championship. Ian Baker Finch, former pro golfer and current color analyst for CBS, was talking about how the ball rolls up the face of an iron, hits the grooves, and thus get spin on a shot....

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