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Palm-Aire<br />
Country Club<br />
WINTER <strong>2011</strong><br />
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Contents<br />
WINTER <strong>2011</strong> Volume Two, Issue Four<br />
13.<br />
9.<br />
7.<br />
7. The Editor’s Page<br />
9. Teed Up and Teed Off:<br />
Observations and opinions from the<br />
world of golf…and ClubLink<br />
13. Cover Story: With 54 holes (36<br />
designed by Tom and George Fazio)<br />
and so much more, Palm-Aire<br />
Country Club is a fantastic<br />
addition to ClubLink’s Florida<br />
Region. By Brent Long.<br />
26.<br />
17. Meet ClubLink Member Albin Choi, Canada’s next<br />
great professional golfer. By Terry Lenyk.<br />
19. Rebecca Lee-Bentham has dedicated her life to golf<br />
and, boy, has it paid off! By Terry Lenyk.<br />
21. Game Improvement: What’s your most important<br />
piece of equipment Wrong. Guess again. Still wrong.<br />
By Tim O’Connor.<br />
26. Equipment: New irons = More fun + fewer strokes.<br />
By Scott Kramer.<br />
29. There’s a new spin on grooves. But should we care<br />
By Scott Kramer.<br />
Cover photo by Brent Long<br />
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Contents<br />
WINTER <strong>2011</strong> Volume Two, Issue Four<br />
34.<br />
30. Blue Springs Golf Club: How a hidden gem turned<br />
into Platinum. By Tim O’Connor.<br />
42.<br />
34. “Easy, quick and exotic” weeknight dinners.<br />
That’s not an oxymoron anymore. By Patricia Uribe.<br />
37. Glen Abbey Golf Club is still waiting for a<br />
thank-you note from the TPC at Sawgrass.<br />
By Lorne Rubenstein.<br />
38. National Pines Golf Club: A lover’s looks<br />
and an assassin’s soul. By Peter Robinson.<br />
38.<br />
42. Greystone Golf Club: Celebrating 20 years<br />
of excellence. By Brent Long.<br />
45. What a year! A look back at an event-filled <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
52.<br />
52. Guest Column: Do we love golf You can bet<br />
on it! By Dave Perkins.<br />
54. Fore Write! How to “get the good of the game.”<br />
By Jim Apfelbaum.<br />
45.<br />
30.<br />
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Editor:<br />
John Gordon<br />
jgordon@clublink.ca<br />
Art Director/Production Manager:<br />
Marcia O’Hearn<br />
Graphic Designer:<br />
Meaghan Cain<br />
Instruction Editor:<br />
Tim O’Connor<br />
Travel Editor:<br />
Ian Cruickshank<br />
Equipment Editor:<br />
Scott Kramer<br />
Writer at Large:<br />
Jim Apfelbaum<br />
Principal Photographer:<br />
Peter A. Sellar<br />
Contributing Writers:<br />
Jim Apfelbaum, Matthew Black, Scott Bogle,<br />
Wendy Burgess, Scott Kramer, Terry Lenyk,<br />
Brent Long, Tim O’Connor, Dave Perkins,<br />
Peter Robinson, Lorne Rubenstein, Patricia Uribe<br />
Contributing Photographers:<br />
Kevan Ashworth, Peter Di Bartolomeo, Wendy Burgess,<br />
Brent Long, Peter A. Sellar<br />
Translation:<br />
Jean-Luc Duguay<br />
Contributing Translators:<br />
Denis Dion, Marie-Ève Noël, Bernard Paré<br />
Printing:<br />
RR Donnelley<br />
ClubLink Life is published four times a year for ClubLink<br />
Members. All rights reserved. Any reproduction in whole or in part<br />
without permission is prohibited. All related inquiries should be<br />
directed to John Gordon, jgordon@clublink.ca or 905-841-5364.<br />
ClubLink<br />
15675 Dufferin Street<br />
King City, Ontario L7B 1K5<br />
1-800-661-1818 Fax 905-841-7033<br />
www.clublink.ca<br />
About ClubLink<br />
ClubLink is engaged in golf club and resort operations under the<br />
trade-mark, “ClubLink One Membership More Golf.” ClubLink<br />
is Canada’s largest owner and operator of golf clubs with 53.5<br />
18-hole equivalent championship and six 18-hole equivalent<br />
academy courses at 44 locations, primarily in Ontario, Quebec<br />
and Florida.<br />
ClubLink is also engaged in rail, tourism and port operations<br />
based in Skagway, Alaska, which operates under the trade-mark<br />
“White Pass & Yukon Route.” The railway stretches approximately<br />
177 kilometres (110 miles) from Skagway, Alaska, through British<br />
Columbia to Whitehorse, Yukon. In addition, ClubLink operates<br />
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T h e E d i t o r ’ s P a g e<br />
Brace yourself for<br />
some Florida golf<br />
and an update on our tangled web<br />
I have to be honest. Writing my column for the <strong>Winter</strong> issue of<br />
ClubLink Life used to be a melancholy task. As I gazed out my office<br />
window for inspiration and creativity (regular readers will know those<br />
elements seldom arrived), I would see falling leaves and maybe the<br />
occasional snowflake, heralding months of hibernation for our courses<br />
and Members.<br />
Not any more! Now it’s golf 365 days a year with ClubLink!<br />
The cover of this magazine explains why this issue of ClubLink Life is a<br />
bit tardy: The renowned Palm-Aire Country Club joined the ClubLink<br />
family in November. Brent Long, our<br />
Now it’s golf<br />
365 days a year<br />
with ClubLink!<br />
contributing writer/photographer, introduces<br />
you to the three courses at Palm-Aire on pages<br />
13-14. Canadian Members will be as eager<br />
as I am to get down to the Fort Lauderdale<br />
area to play Palm-Aire this winter, along with<br />
Woodlands Country Club and Heron Bay Golf Club.<br />
As a matter of fact, as I write this, I am getting excited about playing in<br />
the ClubLink International Pro-Am at Heron Bay and Woodlands at the<br />
end of November. That will be just a warm-up for a January vacation<br />
with some pals, experiencing all the courses at Sun City Center. I might<br />
even sneak down to the Sunshine State once more in late winter with<br />
Mrs. Editor to visit relatives in Boca Raton, conveniently close to Fort<br />
Lauderdale. At least, that’s my plan.<br />
But, as we know, even the best-laid plans can founder. You will recall<br />
that in this space in the Spring issue of ClubLink Life, I announced we<br />
were close to unveiling not only a new ClubLink corporate web site,<br />
but new sites for each of our Clubs. Due to unanticipated challenges<br />
with the complexity of the project and our commitment to ensuring<br />
that the new sites would be first-class in all aspects, we remain …<br />
close, still. We are hoping to beta-test the system at one Club this fall<br />
and are optimistic that the new system will be live ClubLink-wide in<br />
April 2012.<br />
Finally, a personal anecdote about being part of the ClubLink family:<br />
What’s about the worst thing that can happen 10 days before a golfing<br />
vacation How about tearing a ligament and cartilage in your knee<br />
It happened to me in August, just before heading to Nova Scotia’s<br />
Cape Breton Island, for a sneak peek at the much-heralded Cabot<br />
Links. In a panic, I researched the best knee braces, coming up with<br />
DonJoy. I contacted the company and promptly got an<br />
e-mail from Frank Ammirato, who distributes their products<br />
in the Greater Toronto Area. After discussing the injury,<br />
he couriered the appropriate brace to the sports medicine<br />
clinic in my hometown. It fit perfectly and I got to play golf<br />
on my vacation. The kicker: Frank is a ClubLink Member at<br />
DiamondBack Golf Club in Richmond Hill, Ont.. Thanks,<br />
Frank! (And, as a side note, Cabot Links may be the best true<br />
links in North America.)<br />
John Gordon<br />
Editor, ClubLink Life<br />
ClubLink Life editor John Gordon is<br />
Director, Communications, for ClubLink.<br />
That is definitely<br />
the editor’s wife<br />
on his arm and<br />
a Cabot Links pin<br />
flag in his hand,<br />
but what’s that on<br />
his left knee<br />
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T e e d U p … a n d T e e d O f f<br />
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Direct Energy Sports Legends<br />
Golf Classic raises $50,000 for<br />
Reach for the Rainbow<br />
Smooth- (and not-so-smooth-) swinging golfers<br />
raised $50,000 for Reach for the Rainbow in<br />
the inaugural Direct Energy Sports Legends Golf<br />
Classic at Glencairn Golf Club.<br />
After PGA Tour veteran Jim Nelford, ClubLink’s Director of Academy Experiences,<br />
kicked the day off with an entertaining clinic, golfers joined sports legends<br />
Dennis Hull, Wendel Clark, Damon Allen, Mike Gartner and Yvan Cournoyer<br />
on the spectacular links at Glencairn for a fun-filled day with the celebrities.<br />
“Playing with Yvan Cournoyer was the highlight of the day. I grew up watching<br />
him on TV. Montreal was a real powerhouse back then,” said Jost Rittershaus.<br />
“I asked him how many Stanley Cup rings he’d won and he asked me to<br />
guess. I guessed five or six and he said, ‘I do that for breakfast! It’s 10.’ He was<br />
a real gentleman.”<br />
Steve Nushis loved the time he spent with former Chicago Blackhawks great<br />
Dennis Hull. “He’s really funny and made the game that much more enjoyable<br />
for our group,” says Nushis. “He’s a class act and it was great to meet him.”<br />
“Reach for the Rainbow is such a terrific charity. It sends a lot of underprivileged<br />
and challenged children to camp each summer and gives parents a muchneeded<br />
break,” says Roger Violo, who has supported this charity for the last<br />
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has pioneered the integration of children and youth with disabilities into the<br />
mainstream of society through summer camp programs throughout Ontario.<br />
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honour to be part of the event. Clients love it because they have the opportunity<br />
to meet the celebrities, get some autographs and have a fun day on the golf<br />
course while raising money for a deserving charity. “Everyone has a great<br />
time. The scramble format is terrific because it gets everyone involved. The day<br />
From left to right: Damon Allen, Dennis Hull, Yvan Cournoyer,<br />
Mike Gartner and Wendel Clark<br />
moves along at a nice pace and everyone goes home happy with a few<br />
stories to share with friends and family.”<br />
Presenting sponsors included American Express and Sony, along with<br />
ScotiaMcLeod, John Deere, Diageo, Bell, 407 ETR, WestJet, Lincoln, CGT<br />
Events, Pak-Man Disposal Service, Sport Specialties, and Coca-Cola.<br />
“Our company has a long history of giving back to the communities<br />
and to organizations that help support the less fortunate,” says John<br />
Lambert, Direct Energy, Senior Manager for Canada, for the 360<br />
DIRECT Solutions Group. “It’s one of about 30 that we support across<br />
North America.” Lambert’s group, consisting of Doug McDermot, John<br />
McArton and Nick Henn posted the low score of the day at -17 to win<br />
the event. “It was a fun day. It’s a win for everyone, especially the Reach<br />
for the Rainbow Foundation.”<br />
Story and photo by Brent Long.<br />
Rod McRae wins American Express golf getaway<br />
Glencairn Member Rod McRae was the winner of the draw for a one-week retreat in a luxury two-bedroom unit at Lakeside at Rocky<br />
Crest. Any Member in the Ontario/Quebec Region was eligible when they charged payment of their ClubLink membership fee and/or<br />
annual dues and/or house account on their American Express card by April 30, <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
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T e e d U p … a n d T e e d O f f<br />
Manage your<br />
aggressiveness<br />
Scott Bogle, Head Teaching Professional at King Valley<br />
Golf Club, knows how to teach golf and how to play the<br />
game, too. The 2008 Ontario PGA Player of the Year says<br />
if you want to save strokes, you have to know when to go<br />
for the pin and when to play safe.<br />
“When faced with a shot into a green, you have to<br />
consider the pin position, wind, elevation, hazards,<br />
and what club you are hitting. The biggest fault I see<br />
with amateurs is that most aim for the flag, no matter<br />
what the distance is. You have to know when to be<br />
aggressive and go for the pin and when to manage<br />
your aggressiveness.”<br />
As the illustration shows, when you have less than 125<br />
yards into the green, you can take on the hazard and go<br />
for the pin. Between 125 and 175 yards out, you should<br />
take a more cautious approach and anything more than<br />
175 yards out means you go for the safe shot, taking the<br />
hazard out of play.<br />
Birthday bash at Le Maître<br />
The Members and staff at Le Maitre sure know how to celebrate! Ten years after the<br />
first Fred Couples Signature Design in Canada was born, a celebratory tournament was<br />
followed by an evening that included live music and dancing, champagne, and oyster and<br />
sushi bar, and other culinary delights. A fireworks display capped off a very memorable<br />
evening—and decade!<br />
Learning to manage your aggressiveness takes the<br />
potential “big number” out of the picture and means you<br />
will get a lot more pars than double bogeys!<br />
Photo: Kevan Ashworth<br />
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Illustration: Meaghan Cain<br />
Muskoka tops among<br />
summer destinations worldwide<br />
“National Geographic Traveler magazine has named Muskoka as the top <strong>2011</strong> summer<br />
destination in the world… Muskoka remains a special part of [ClubLink’s] history. This is<br />
where its expansion into resorts began [and] many of ClubLink’s Members discovered<br />
and fell in love with the area through ClubLink’s golf courses.” National Post, June 17, <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
In Muskoka, ClubLink owns The Lake Joseph Club Resort, the Grandview Resort, the Rocky<br />
Crest Resort, and the Sherwood Resort. Our courses in the region are The Lake Joseph<br />
Club, Rocky Crest Golf Club, and the Mark O’Meara Course at Grandview.<br />
Lynn Finnigan wins<br />
PGA Tour trip from Beringer<br />
Cherry Downs Member Lynn Finnigan won an expense-paid trip for two<br />
to the Tour Championship in Atlanta, including accommodations at the W<br />
Hotel, in a lucky-draw contest held at men’s Member-guest championships<br />
at ClubLink Clubs in Ontario.
T e e d U p … a n d T e e d O f f<br />
A (cleaner) river<br />
runs through it<br />
Anyone who played Highland Gate Golf Club in Aurora,<br />
Ont., recently would have noticed significant changes due to<br />
ClubLink’s stewardship project to enhance a section of Tannery<br />
Creek, a tributary of the East Holland River.<br />
With the assistance of the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation<br />
Authority (LSRCA), ClubLink secured funding for the project<br />
through partners including Environment Canada, Lake Simcoe<br />
Conservation Foundation, York Natural Planting Partnership and<br />
the Region of York.<br />
The section of Tannery Creek that traverses Highland Gate had<br />
several barriers including three ponds, two failing culverts and<br />
unstable stream banks. Through this project, three ponds were<br />
removed, the stream channel was lengthened by applying<br />
natural channel design practices, stream banks were stabilized<br />
using bioengineering techniques, in-stream structures were<br />
installed to enhance aquatic habitat, and a section of culverts<br />
was replaced with a bridge.<br />
The environmental benefits include improved water quality and<br />
floodplain function, reduced erosion and sedimentation through<br />
stream-bank stabilization and vegetative buffers, enhanced<br />
aquatic and wildlife habit, and the removal of in-stream barriers<br />
to fish migration.<br />
The LSRCA says the East Holland River is the most populated and<br />
polluted river in the Lake Simcoe watershed. The stewardship<br />
project provided an excellent opportunity for ClubLink and<br />
the Highland Gate Condominium Corp. to work cooperatively<br />
with the LSRCA to restore and protect the East Holland River<br />
watershed, while improving the function and aesthetic quality<br />
of the watercourse.<br />
Story and photo by Wendy Burgess, ClubLink Manager,<br />
Corporate Environmental Policy.<br />
Hautes Plaines<br />
men’s night rocks!<br />
Martin Lavigne, Director, Operations, at Club de golf<br />
Hautes Plaines in Gatineau, Que., is justifiably proud<br />
of his men’s night. “We have 10 teams of 18 players per<br />
team. Every week, teams accumulate points to determine in which division they will be in<br />
the playoffs, which last four weeks. We have our final day with a shotgun start, dinner and<br />
a very generous gift table. This year, the men’s night committee was Sébastien Côté, Don<br />
Duguay, Pierre Duguay and André Bisson. Every week we have a sponsor who purchases<br />
gifts from the golf shop to be given out at night during dinner. We have lots of fun week<br />
after week, the competition is always good, and sportsmanship is the No. 1 rule.”<br />
Rai Sahi recognized by Golf Inc. magazine<br />
ClubLink President and CEO Rai Sahi was ranked the 16th most powerful person in golf worldwide<br />
by Golf Inc. magazine in its Fall <strong>2011</strong> issue, ahead of such other notables as Donald Trump and<br />
Greg Norman.<br />
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Palm-Aire<br />
Country Club<br />
C o v e r S t o r y<br />
joins the<br />
ClubLink family<br />
With its acquisition in<br />
November of the Oaks, the<br />
Cypress and the Palms courses<br />
at Palm-Aire Country Club<br />
in Pompano Beach, ClubLink<br />
has doubled the number of its<br />
championship courses in the<br />
Fort Lauderdale area.<br />
story and photos by Brent Long<br />
“This furthers our promise of offering our more than 20,000 Canadian Members<br />
the opportunity to golf 365 days a year,” said ClubLink President and CEO Rai<br />
Sahi. “Southeast Florida is the most popular destination for ClubLink Members in<br />
our Ontario/Quebec Region and a growing number are purchasing winter homes or<br />
vacationing there.<br />
“Our business model offers our Members a ‘cluster’ of Clubs to play and Palm-Aire is an<br />
outstanding addition to our family of Clubs in Florida. We are confident our reciprocal<br />
play model will be attractive to Florida residents who want to enjoy all the benefits of<br />
ClubLink membership as well as to our Canadian snowbird Members.”<br />
The Oaks and the Cypress courses were designed by the renowned duo of Tom<br />
and George Fazio while the Palms was laid out by William Mitchell. Each provides<br />
a distinctive experience, and complement ClubLink’s earlier acquisitions in the area:<br />
Heron Bay Golf Club, former site of the PGA Tour’s Honda Classic, and the historic<br />
36-hole Woodlands Country Club.<br />
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C o v e r S t o r y<br />
“People like Palm-Aire because there’s a variety of options<br />
for them to enjoy,” said John Finlayson, ClubLink’s Regional<br />
Executive Director, Operations. “These courses are very well<br />
laid out, challenging, and fun. We will be announcing a multimillion<br />
dollar renovation plan for all three courses and the<br />
clubhouses in the near future.”<br />
One aspect that won’t need to be altered at any of the Palm-<br />
Aire courses is length. The Palms tips out at 6,944 yards, par<br />
72, and the Cypress is 6,810 yards, par 72. Both courses have<br />
five sets of tee decks to choose from, while The Oaks plays<br />
6,910 yards, par 71 with four sets of tees.<br />
“All three courses are beautiful and unique in their own way,”<br />
says Finlayson. “I’d say the Palms is the friendliest of the three,<br />
while the Oaks takes it up a notch or two with narrower<br />
fairways and faster greens, while Cypress is for the lower<br />
handicapper who really wants a challenge.”<br />
Palm-Aire was very attractive to ClubLink because of its<br />
central location 30 minutes from Fort Lauderdale International<br />
Airport and surrounding communities of Boca Raton, Miami,<br />
and Fort Lauderdale itself. In 20 minutes or so, you could be at<br />
Heron Bay or Woodlands.<br />
Palm-Aire Country Club has a rich history dating back to 1959<br />
when The Palms Golf Course was founded by George Palmer<br />
and Harold Broiler and a 50-room lodge opened in 1962. Sam<br />
Snead set a course record 65 in that year and, since then, Palm-<br />
Aire has hosted the prestigious Dixie Amateur (now conducted<br />
by ClubLink at Heron Bay and Woodlands), the Florida Open,<br />
and the Nike South Florida Classic, a former Nationwide Tour<br />
event, on multiple occasions.<br />
All three courses are<br />
beautiful and unique in<br />
their own way<br />
“Our TravelLink program makes it very attractive for our Canadian<br />
Members to experience our Florida courses,” Finlayson said. “And now,<br />
with Palm-Aire, Heron Bay and Woodlands in the Fort Lauderdale<br />
area complementing the Sun City Center courses, we are looking<br />
forward to welcoming many more this winter.”<br />
For more information on ClubLink’s Florida<br />
Clubs and TravelLink, visit www.clublink.ca or<br />
call a membership consultant at 1-800-661-1818.<br />
In 1965, Alfred Orleans and his son Marvin purchased the<br />
course and lodge, which hosted the Florida Open for the<br />
first time that year. Palm-Aire’s owners added a grand hotel<br />
and spa in 1971 followed by the construction of The Oaks<br />
in 1971 and The Cypress in 1972. Movie stars such as Frank<br />
Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, and Jerry Lewis would come to stay<br />
and play at the renowned hotel and golf courses. The New<br />
York Yankees of old would stay there during spring training.<br />
Billy Jean King was the tennis pro.<br />
ClubLink, one of the world’s largest multi-course owners/<br />
operators, now has a total of 53.5 18-hole equivalent<br />
championship courses and six 18-hole equivalent academy<br />
courses located at 44 locations, primarily in Florida, Ontario<br />
and Quebec. ClubLink made its first foray into Florida in<br />
September 2010, when it acquired five championship and two<br />
academy courses in Sun City Center south of Tampa.<br />
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A l b i n C h o i<br />
Taking<br />
dead aim<br />
at the<br />
PGA Tour<br />
by Terry Lenyk<br />
The struggles of many of Canada’s top professional golfers have<br />
left golf fans waiting anxiously for the nation’s next great golfer.<br />
Meet Albin Choi.<br />
Photo: Golf Canada<br />
Originally from Surrey, B.C., this 19-year-old Torontonian has been<br />
a ClubLink Member for the past three years. During that time, he<br />
has solidified himself as Canada’s top amateur golfer and is the only<br />
Canadian male currently listed in the top 100 players in the world on<br />
both the Royal & Ancient and United States Golf Association’s World<br />
Amateur Golf Ranking.<br />
“I check the rankings at least every two weeks,” said Choi, who was<br />
ranked 43rd in mid-November. “But I’m not too hung up on them. It’s<br />
a good feeling. It makes me proud. I’d like to move up and see more<br />
Canadians in the top 100. I know we can produce players as good as<br />
those from the U.S. or from any other country, for that matter.”<br />
Choi is a member of Canada’s national amateur golf team, Team Canada.<br />
“Canada is doing its best to get a lot of great players on Tour. Golf<br />
Canada’s High Performance Program and Development Teams train our<br />
top players year-round. Golf is such an unpredictable sport. You may see<br />
a Canadian break through next month or maybe next season.<br />
“I want my PGA Tour card when I’m finished college,” said the North<br />
Carolina State sophomore who is majoring in parks, recreation and<br />
tourism management. “I’ve got three more years of school. I’m not<br />
sure how things will work out, but I’d like to graduate. “<br />
Choi won two collegiate events in his freshman year. He got a chance<br />
to test his game against the Tour’s best this past July at the RBC<br />
Canadian Open in Vancouver.<br />
“It was the most nervous I’ve ever been at a golf tournament. I was<br />
new to the whole PGA Tour atmosphere. It was fun, though. Playing<br />
against new people on a whole new level of golf was a good test to see<br />
where I’m at and where I need to be.”<br />
Unfortunately, he missed the cut by two strokes. But he’ll be using<br />
his first taste of the Tour as a learning experience. “Guys on Tour<br />
overall don’t have much curvature on the ball. Most of them are dead<br />
straight off the tee. I’ll be working on that. I’ll be back. I’d like to<br />
play events like that every week.”<br />
Choi earned his exemption into the Canadian Open by winning the<br />
2010 Canadian Men’s Amateur Championship—a moment he calls<br />
the proudest of his golf career. “I was ecstatic … all the hard work<br />
paying off. The win gave me the momentum I needed to go to college.<br />
I wouldn’t have had the success I had last year without that win.”<br />
Like most high-performance athletes, he worked tirelessly to get<br />
where he is today. “I didn’t have much of a social life growing up. I<br />
spent a lot of time on the golf course. Some say it’s a sacrifice, but for<br />
me it wasn’t. I made a lot of friends through golf.”<br />
Choi began his tenure with ClubLink as a Member of Highland<br />
Gate, but now plays out of Caledon Woods. He’s played most of<br />
ClubLink’s Canadian courses, but he has a favourite. “Wyndance,” he<br />
says without hesitation. “It’s a great design. It has the length and when<br />
the conditions are tough, you need to be on your game to score.”<br />
When not competing, Choi tries to spend as much time with his<br />
father Dean, mother Erica, and 10-year-old sister Sarah. Interestingly,<br />
Albin is the only one who took to the game.<br />
Choi’s focus remains fixed on one thing and one thing only. “I haven’t<br />
thought about life after golf. The only thing I think about right now<br />
is playing on Tour.”<br />
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R e b e c c a L e e - B e n t h a m<br />
The journey<br />
continues<br />
for Canadian<br />
Amateur champion<br />
by Terry Lenyk<br />
ClubLink<br />
Member<br />
Rebecca<br />
Lee-Bentham<br />
is Canada’s<br />
best<br />
female<br />
amateur<br />
golfer,<br />
but that<br />
title hasn’t<br />
come easy.<br />
Photos: Golf Canada<br />
She earned those bragging rights by winning the Royale<br />
Cup Canadian Women’s Amateur Championship<br />
in British Columbia this past July. She edged top<br />
Canadian, U.S. and international golfers with a comefrom-behind<br />
victory, making up three shots during the<br />
final round to force a playoff. The win earned her an<br />
exemption into her third career LPGA event, the CN<br />
Canadian Women’s Open in Montreal.<br />
“Winning the Canadian Amateur was pretty big for<br />
me,” said the 19-year-old Toronto native. “This was my<br />
second Canadian Open and I also played in the U.S.<br />
Open last year which was one of the most rewarding<br />
experiences of my life.<br />
“Finishing as a semi-finalist at last year’s British<br />
Women’s Amateur was another special day for me,<br />
but I know I have many more great memories ahead<br />
as I continue with my golf career.”<br />
To say Lee-Bentham is dedicated to improving her<br />
game would be an understatement. She has eaten,<br />
breathed and dreamed about the game since she first<br />
picked it up at 11. Her dad, a former scratch golfer<br />
and now retired, had initially introduced her to the<br />
violin and piano, but they just weren’t for her.<br />
“I hated it. My dad thought I seemed more like the<br />
outdoor, sporty type. So we started to hit the practice<br />
range together about three to five times per week.<br />
After about a year, my dad finally took me to play<br />
18 holes and I was able to break 100. At 13, I joined<br />
Highland Gate. It was then that my dad told me I<br />
could be really good one day.”<br />
She’s more than proven him right. In 2007, at the<br />
tender age of 15, she became the youngest winner<br />
of the Ontario Women’s Amateur Championship.<br />
The King Valley Golf Club Member has made<br />
sacrifices along the way. “I never really got to hang<br />
out with friends when I was in high school or even<br />
younger. I was always at the golf course. I played a<br />
tournament on the day of my high-school graduation.<br />
I walked up on stage with my golf clothes on, which<br />
was sort of funny. I’ve never had a boyfriend either. I<br />
could never find the time to start a relationship.”<br />
But she doesn’t mind sacrifice or the countless hours<br />
of training. “Winning is my favourite part of the game.<br />
I can’t stand losing. Winning makes all the sacrifices<br />
worthwhile.”<br />
If you want to find Rebecca, all you need to do is<br />
visit the practice facilities at Wyndance Golf Club in<br />
Uxbridge, Ont. From dawn to dusk, seven days a week,<br />
she works on refining her game there. When she’s not<br />
practising, she’s on the road competing across the<br />
globe, either individually or as part of Golf Canada’s<br />
Team Canada squad.<br />
Lee-Bentham’s success and determination also earned<br />
her a full scholarship to the University of Texas in<br />
2010. She decided not to go back this year because<br />
she plans on turning professional in time for the<br />
LPGA qualifying school this winter.<br />
“I don’t regret going to school one bit, although I kind<br />
of miss it at times. I met some good people there. The<br />
homework and studying on top of all the golf… that<br />
part I don’t miss.”<br />
Terry Lenyk is the web manager for Golf Canada.<br />
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G a m e I m p r o v e m e n t<br />
FOURTH<br />
in a<br />
series<br />
by Tim O’Connor<br />
ClubLink Life<br />
Instruction Editor<br />
illustration by<br />
Greg Douglas<br />
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G a m e I m p r o v e m e n t<br />
For golfers yearning to improve their game,<br />
it’s never a question of whether the spirit is<br />
willing. But, with apologies to Matthew in the<br />
Good Book, the problem is usually that the<br />
body is weak. Or at least key parts of it.<br />
Yet, the body is often the last place that golfers consider when<br />
they are stuck in a rut of bad golf. More likely, they’ll blame poor<br />
equipment, bad karma or even a golf professional.<br />
If they don’t improve, instructor Tom Jackson says many golfers<br />
conclude they are getting bad advice. In fact, Jackson says many<br />
golfers are physically incapable of swinging correctly.<br />
“The coach may understand what’s going on with the student’s<br />
game in terms of mechanics such as hitting a certain swing position<br />
or movement and recommend the proper move to the golfer, but<br />
the golfer just cannot physically perform the motion,” says Jackson,<br />
former director of instruction at The Academies of ClubLink at<br />
Glen Abbey.<br />
“Regardless of how good the information is, the student just cannot<br />
do it,” says Jackson, now president of Core Golf Academy in Florida.<br />
An uncooperative body has no regard for age. In 2009, 15-year-old<br />
Wilson Bateman—one of Canada’s top juniors—was suffering from<br />
back pain and a steep swing that led to inconsistencies. Bateman<br />
would tilt backwards to compensate for his steep swing, which<br />
caused his back pain. It was a vicious circle of compensation, pain<br />
and erratic play.<br />
Bateman worked with a physiotherapist who performed treatments<br />
on his back, and provided a program of stretching and strengthening.<br />
Over six months of treatment and coaching from Jackson and Sean<br />
Foley, another Academies of ClubLink alumnus—Bateman’s pain<br />
went away and he started to swing on a proper plane.<br />
“The training helped tremendously and got me on track faster,” said<br />
Bateman, who now attends San Diego State on a golf scholarship.<br />
This summer, Bateman won the Prairie and Ontario CN Future<br />
Links championships, made it to the third round of match play in<br />
the U.S. Junior, and tied for third in the Canadian Amateur.<br />
Unquestionably, golfers of any age with physical issues should work<br />
with medical professionals and trainers who are knowledgeable<br />
about golf, such as the duo of Claudine Foong and Dr. Carmine<br />
Filice, who work out of The Performance Lab in Toronto<br />
(www.myperformancelab.com).<br />
Filice, a sport performance therapist who has worked with NHL<br />
and Olympic athletes, conducts the diagnosis and helps clients<br />
“clean up” problem areas through soft-tissue manipulation, therapy<br />
and other techniques. In collaboration with Foong, a former<br />
professional golfer and Jackson student, they design programs that<br />
enable golfers to overcome their weaknesses, and increase their<br />
strength, endurance, flexibility and stability.<br />
“If you correct your physical inefficiencies, you can reach a new<br />
level in your game,” Filice says. “If don’t, you are just re-engraining<br />
poor motor patterns, you will not improve, and your problems will<br />
get worse.”<br />
Amateur golfers tend to suffer similar problems because the<br />
majority of us sit most of the day—at a desk, at home, in the car.<br />
Typically, we have weak cores, tight hips and hip flexors, as well as<br />
tightness in the chest. And we have notoriously weak backs and<br />
glutes (buttocks).<br />
“Nearly every person I see has some of these issues,” says Foong.<br />
“To play good golf, our bodies have to fire in certain patterns. The<br />
glutes, in particular, are the king of the golf swing. If you can’t fire<br />
them because you are mainly sedentary, you can’t draw on them<br />
on the course.”<br />
Filice says that muscle weakness and tightness are key reasons that<br />
golfers fail to get the power and consistency they desire. “When<br />
you rotate, your muscles stretch. When muscles get stretched<br />
close to their maximum, they instinctively want to relieve that<br />
tension and shorten very quickly. It’s like a muscle explosion.<br />
That’s where we get power in golf. The golf swing is an incredible<br />
athletic movement.”<br />
She applauds golfers for trying to get fit, yet she has concerns: “A<br />
lot of people read things or hear about exercises from friends, but<br />
if they don’t get assessed, they don’t know if it’s right for them.<br />
People can get worse, or their form is incorrect. That’s my greatest<br />
fear and that leads to injuries down the line.”<br />
If you are serious about improving your game,<br />
your body is your No. 1 piece of equipment.<br />
Sure, you can buy a new driver or putter,<br />
but investing in your body will pay greater<br />
dividends now and in the future.<br />
Freelance writer and communications<br />
guru Tim O’Connor, ClubLink Life’s<br />
instruction editor, rarely exercises more<br />
than his typing muscles these days.<br />
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G O L F C A N A D A<br />
Golf Canada salutes our <strong>2011</strong><br />
national champions<br />
1) Canadian Men’s Amateur Championship<br />
Niakwa Country Club/Elmhurst Golf and<br />
Country Club, Winnipeg, Man.<br />
Mackenzie Hughes, Dundas, Ont.<br />
2) RBC Canadian Open<br />
Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club,<br />
Vancouver, B.C.<br />
Sean O’Hair, Lubbock, Texas<br />
3) Canadian Men’s Senior Championship<br />
Twin Rivers Golf Course, Port Blandford, Nfld.<br />
Chip Lutz, Reading, Pennsylvania<br />
1 2 3<br />
4) Royale Cup Canadian Women’s<br />
Amateur Championship<br />
Duncan Meadows Golf and Country Club,<br />
Duncan, B.C.<br />
Rebecca Lee-Bentham, Toronto, Ont.<br />
5) Canadian Men’s Mid-Amateur Championship<br />
Coppinwood Golf Club, Goodwood, Ont.<br />
Rob Couture, Dallas, Texas<br />
6) Royale Cup Canadian Junior Girls Championship<br />
QGolf Club, Richmond, B.C.<br />
Jennifer Yang, Coquitlam, B.C.<br />
7) Canadian Junior Boys Championship<br />
Morgan Creek Golf Course,<br />
South Surrey, B.C.<br />
Kevin Kwon, Pitt Meadows, B.C.<br />
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4<br />
8) Royale Cup Canadian Women’s<br />
Senior Championship<br />
Whitevale Golf Club, Whitevale, Ont.<br />
Mary Ann Hayward, Aurora, Ont.<br />
9) Canadian University/College Championship<br />
Royal Ashburn Golf Club, Ashburn, Ont.<br />
a) Men’s: Humber College<br />
b) Women’s: University of British Columbia.<br />
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7<br />
Golf Canada would like to thank all the<br />
partners, volunteers, host clubs and<br />
competitors that shared in the success of<br />
its <strong>2011</strong> National Championships.<br />
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9a<br />
9b<br />
Photos: Golf Canada<br />
C l u b L i n k L i f e | 2 5
E q u i p m e n t<br />
Iron models don’t generally change much from one year to the next. In fact, it used to<br />
be that your set could hold you just fine for about a decade. Many golfers never really<br />
switched until they were just plain tired of using the same old clubs. There was never<br />
a need to, because many newer models weren’t much better. They were just different.<br />
There are many new irons from major brands on the market for late <strong>2011</strong> and early<br />
2012, all sharing one trait: They’re easier to hit than their predecessors. And if you try<br />
them, you’ll quickly see that they outperform many recent models, too. You’ll find<br />
yourself hitting longer, higher shots with tighter dispersion and better feel.<br />
That’s all accomplished through the details. Whether it be the slight contouring of<br />
the top line, the addition of precise weighting in specific areas, the tuning of sound,<br />
new cavity material, a thicker sole, a new face thickness, or whatever proprietary<br />
accomplishment, companies have simply made their latest models more playable than<br />
in the past. Some sets clearly feature long irons that are built differently than their<br />
short-iron siblings—all to optimize ball flight for you from any given iron. Other sets<br />
incorporate hybrids at the long end. Whatever it takes to help you enjoy the game more.<br />
What’s interesting is that the three general levels of irons—players’, game-improvement<br />
and super game-improvement models—have all been made a bit easier to handle.<br />
By Scott Kramer<br />
Nick Faldo helped design<br />
TaylorMade’s R11 irons for<br />
golfers who like a Tour-iron look<br />
but need game-improvement<br />
features. A precision-weighting<br />
port places the CG centre-face<br />
in each iron, for consistent feel<br />
and performance. An ultra-thin<br />
face means faster ball speed<br />
and distance in long and midirons.<br />
Long irons are shaped to<br />
be forgiving; short irons are more<br />
compact and workable.<br />
Better players have always considered it a badge of courage to play blades. If this is you,<br />
fear not. Companies haven’t really confronted your ego by making their players’ irons<br />
simple to hit. You’ll essentially find that the newest members of this group are just<br />
slightly more forgiving and even more pure feeling when the ball is perfectly struck—<br />
without completely giving up the blade-like appearance or the harshness on those rare<br />
extreme mis-hits. And you’ll still have to work the ball toward your target, so the<br />
challenge level you’re accustomed to remains.<br />
Meanwhile, those of you who find the game more challenging will love the relatively<br />
effortless playability of the game-improvement and super game-improvement models.<br />
They’ll enhance your launch parameters, too, to help you get the ball soaring quicker<br />
with better spin. Your mis-hits will feel more as if you still hit the sweet spot.<br />
After all, isn’t golf about having fun<br />
ClubLink Life Equipment Editor Scott Kramer is based in Carlsbad, Calif., the capital of<br />
the golf equipment world. www.mediabistro.com/scottkramer<br />
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E q u i p m e n t<br />
Adams Golf’s Idea a12 OS<br />
set is a three-heads-in-one<br />
set. It contains three hybrids<br />
(4, 5, 6) featuring the company’s<br />
Velocity Slot Technology for a<br />
spring-like effect across the face,<br />
two transitional, low-CG hybrids<br />
(7, 8), and three deep undercut<br />
cavity-back irons (9, PW, GW)<br />
with ultra-thin faces.<br />
Callaway’s RAZR XF set<br />
consists of six game-improvement<br />
irons and two hybrids. The<br />
forged 1025 carbon steel iron<br />
has a thin face that boosts ball<br />
speed and perimeter weighting<br />
for accuracy. The large-headed<br />
hybrids are offset and sport<br />
a Zero Roll Design on the<br />
clubface—generating higher<br />
shots struck low on the face—<br />
and variable face thickness for a<br />
large sweet spot.<br />
PING’s G20 irons strive to<br />
get you distance with control.<br />
The 17-4 stainless steel clubheads<br />
are thin-faced, perimeter<br />
weighted with a deep cavity,<br />
and have an elastomer cavity<br />
badge that enhances feel and<br />
sound. Weight in the back flange<br />
increases the MOI (moment of<br />
inertia) to help your accuracy.<br />
Compared to their predecessors,<br />
Titleist’s new 712 Series of its<br />
AP1 and AP2 irons look sleeker.<br />
The AP1 features a redesigned<br />
steel soleplate and tungsten<br />
nickel sole weight for more<br />
stability and forgiveness. The<br />
AP2—for better players—also has<br />
a new steel cradle with tungsten<br />
heel and toe weights, for mis-hit<br />
forgiveness and more consistent<br />
distance control.<br />
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C L U B L I N K P A R T N E R<br />
Merit<br />
Travel<br />
Group<br />
The Official Travel<br />
Partner of ClubLink<br />
Merit Travel Group is a privately held, owner-managed<br />
company established in 1991. Merit has grown to<br />
become the largest independent specialty travel<br />
company in Canada. More than 500 Merit travel<br />
professionals located at more than 50 offices across<br />
the country provide advice and services to more than<br />
350,000 travellers every year.<br />
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M e r i t B i z ®<br />
With a national team of some of the most experienced corporate<br />
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and St. Catharines in Ontario, Victoria, B.C., and Montreal, MeritBiz<br />
simplifies the daunting world of business travel for some of Canada’s<br />
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M e r i t L o y a l t y G r o u p ®<br />
From call-centre offices in Mississauga, Ont., Victoria and Montreal,<br />
Merit Loyalty Group operates loyalty management and travel<br />
programs for major clients including CIBC Visa.<br />
M e r i t L e i s u r e G r o u p<br />
With a team of more than 250 dedicated and experienced<br />
leisure/vacation travel consultants located at more than 50<br />
local market retail offices, Merit Leisure Group provides travel<br />
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This business unit also creates and delivers unique affinity<br />
travel programs to a growing network of national and provincial<br />
associations across Canada.<br />
Merit Leisure Group (MLG) is comprised of a number of leading<br />
retail brands including Merit Vacations, Travel CUTS, Voyages<br />
Campus and The Adventure Travel Company. MLG has developed<br />
a comprehensive portfolio of uniquely branded specialty travel<br />
products including Explore Your Way, Merit Ski Vacations, Merit<br />
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(Innovative Group Travel division) and customized niche travel<br />
programs, as well as representing some of the best hotels, resorts,<br />
cruise lines, tour operators, car rental and related travel and<br />
experience companies worldwide, MLG serves a broad cross-section<br />
of customer groups across Canada.<br />
M e r i t G o l f V a c a t i o n s<br />
With more than 100 years of combined experience, a dedicated<br />
team of golf travel experts and established relationships with literally<br />
hundreds of the best golf resorts and courses around the world,<br />
Merit Golf Vacations has established itself as the leading outbound<br />
and domestic golf tour operator in Canada. Together with its sister<br />
company based in Scotland, High Road Golf Expeditions (UK), Merit<br />
golf travel professionals assist hundreds of golfers with corporate<br />
incentives, group programs, pro-am events, couples’ programs and<br />
vacations for individuals to golf destinations worldwide.<br />
E x c l u s i v e To u r s<br />
Long recognized as the leading river cruise, expedition and small ship<br />
travel wholesaler in Canada, the Exclusive Tours team of experts<br />
now also offer golf, ski, tours, resort/hotel product and advice to<br />
several hundred travel agencies across Canada.<br />
C l u b L i n k M e m b e r s<br />
Please visit the Merit Travel<br />
portal located on Members<br />
Only at www.clublink.ca. This<br />
travel portal has many tools for<br />
ClubLink Members to take advantage of, such as savings<br />
on your next golf trip, pro-am trip information, leisure<br />
travel and more.<br />
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Golf’s on the<br />
spin cycle…<br />
Amateurs not impacted until 2024<br />
by Scott Kramer<br />
As if golf wasn’t tough enough. This year, the Royal<br />
Canadian Golf Association and the United States Golf<br />
Association enforced tightened rules on grooves, essentially<br />
requiring softer clubface groove edges on all clubs with 25<br />
or more degrees of loft—that’s all wedges and irons pretty<br />
much down to the 6-iron. The rule restricts the edge radius<br />
sharpness on groove corners, limits the amount of clubface<br />
area devoted to grooves, and clamps spin performance to that<br />
of V-grooves from the past. These rules—primarily geared<br />
toward Tour pros but still affecting you—aim to decrease<br />
spin from the rough, making it more difficult for golfers to<br />
gauge where their shots from the rough will end up.<br />
All else being equal, balls struck by clubs with the latest<br />
grooves will launch higher, spin less and run more once they<br />
hit the green. Actual performance varies by the player’s<br />
swing style, the type of shot, ball model, if the shot’s struck<br />
from short or long grass, and if playing conditions are wet<br />
or dry.<br />
You can still find some clubs with “aggressive grooves”—<br />
the ones that club manufacturers are now prohibited from<br />
selling but are still legal for amateurs until 2024. However,<br />
new clubs for <strong>2011</strong> have “C-C” grooves, which means they<br />
meet the USGA’s new conditions for competition.<br />
E Q U I P M E N T<br />
How<br />
groovy!<br />
Nike this year is touting VR Pro Blades with X3X<br />
high-frequency grooves, made by milling the face<br />
perfectly flat, and then die-stamping the grooves to<br />
exact specs. There are more grooves, closer together<br />
and deeper on the face to maximize flight control and<br />
shot-to-shot consistency.<br />
The clubface on Titleist’s Vokey Design Spin Milled C-C<br />
wedges contains grooves that are “spin milled” to<br />
produce a higher trajectory and medium spin. A special<br />
circular saw-style tool is used to create the grooves with<br />
precision, while the face is machined to have micro<br />
edges between the grooves, for more texture.<br />
On Callaway’s X Series Jaws CC wedges, 21 tightly<br />
spaced “Tour CC” grooves have sharper edges that<br />
still comply with the new rules. They’re accomplished<br />
through the company’s Triple Net Forging process that<br />
provides the maximum conforming area capacity, for<br />
spin and control out of the rough.<br />
That said, club manufacturers didn’t want to leave your shortgame<br />
accuracy to chance. So several took novel approaches<br />
to update their clubs’ grooves within the new limits in an<br />
effort to keep the ball spinning as much as possible around<br />
the green. For instance, some brands are placing more and<br />
narrower grooves on the clubface this year. Others added<br />
surface roughness or patterns to the clubface, between the<br />
grooves. Still others are toying with groove geometry. All<br />
strategies aim to help the clubface grab the ball for that extra<br />
instant at impact, allowing the ball to start rolling up the face<br />
and generating more spin on the ball. That gets you more<br />
bite on the green.<br />
Thus, putting their own marketing spin on the club’s ability<br />
to impart ball spin, here’s what some of the major brands are<br />
offering this year.<br />
[For a complete explanation of the new grooves Rule,<br />
please visit www.rcga.org (Ontario/Quebec Region) or<br />
www.usga.org (Florida Region).]<br />
TaylorMade offers replaceable clubfaces for its TP<br />
wedges with xFT—helping you keep fresh grooves<br />
for maximum backspin and performance. The face<br />
insert is forged and the “Z” grooves are CNC-milled.<br />
Behind the face sits a thin urethane layer that softens<br />
feel and sound.<br />
PING’s Tour-S wedges boast a machined face and<br />
grooves designed to optimize spin. That in turn helps<br />
improve your greenside control and shots.<br />
ClubLink Life Equipment Editor Scott Kramer is based in Carlsbad,<br />
Calif., the capital of the golf equipment world.<br />
www.mediabistro.com/scottkramer<br />
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B l u e S p r i n g s G o l f C l u b<br />
“<br />
gem”<br />
Hidden<br />
now a Platinum Club<br />
by Tim O’Connor<br />
In the ClubLink family of Clubs around Toronto, Blue Springs<br />
used to be like that beloved relative who lived just a little farther<br />
away than you might like to drive, who was lots of fun, but was just<br />
a touch unpolished.<br />
In its early days, somewhat like Rodney Dangerfield, the course in<br />
Acton, about 45 minutes west of Pearson International Airport, was<br />
always looking for respect; the name rarely came up in grill-room<br />
chats about great golf courses in Southern Ontario.<br />
But with care and time, Blue Springs has evolved into a top-drawer<br />
layout that is spoken about enthusiastically for its charm, challenge,<br />
and especially for its great course conditions year after year.<br />
“Blue Springs was always perceived as a hidden gem just a little bit<br />
out of the way relative to ClubLink’s other west-end locations,”<br />
said Brent Miller, Director of Golf at Blue Springs in 1999.<br />
“Now it’s very popular for associate Club play, and many Members<br />
say it’s one of their favourite ClubLink courses,” said Miller, now<br />
ClubLink’s Executive Director, Golf Operations and Member<br />
Services.<br />
Blue Springs has received a lot more attention recently for a<br />
number of reasons: <strong>2011</strong> marked its 20th anniversary, the course<br />
has undergone extensive renovations over the years that have<br />
dramatically increased its playability and aesthetics, and, as a result,<br />
it has been elevated to a Platinum-level Club for 2012.<br />
About a 15-minute drive from Highway 401 up scenic Highway<br />
25—taking you past Greystone and Glencairn—the course is set in<br />
the ruggedly beautiful Halton Hills. The holes unfold harmoniously<br />
between thick stands of hardwoods, and weave through leafy valleys<br />
much like Rocky Crest in Muskoka. With no road noise or urban<br />
encroachment, Blue Springs is a peaceful escape into the country.<br />
But it’s no sleepwalk. Sprawling across 444 rambunctious acres and<br />
interspersed with ponds on about half the holes, Blue Springs is a<br />
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B l u e S p r i n g s G o l f C l u b<br />
The holes unfold harmoniously<br />
between thick stands of hardwoods,<br />
and weave through leafy valleys<br />
much like Rocky Crest in Muskoka.<br />
Hole #8<br />
heck of a challenge—and a great workout for walkers.<br />
It’s 6,921 yards from the tips, rated a beefy 144 Slope<br />
from the gold tees and 139 from the blue markers.<br />
There are number of forced carries and tough driving<br />
holes, notably the notorious No. 8 and downhill<br />
10th. As such, Blue Springs is a great test of course<br />
management in choosing the right club and shot,<br />
particularly with the mature trees and doglegs.<br />
Played from the correct tees, most any player will<br />
have a blast at Blue Springs, or least feel like they<br />
are blasting off because more than half of the tees<br />
are elevated—the most famous is the beautiful par-3<br />
17th which features about a 60-foot drop from tee to<br />
green—providing lovely views of the countryside.<br />
Full of contour with various levels, the greens at Blue<br />
Springs can confound a newcomer. “As you get to know the greens, you<br />
love the challenge and you learn that you have to hit to a spot,” says Paul<br />
Morrow, 2012 Club champion and senior Club champion at Blue Springs.<br />
(Incredibly, Morrow has won four Club championships at Blue Springs,<br />
and 19 in total including victories at North Halton and Devil’s Pulpit.)<br />
The beauty and drama of the land also made it a challenging track to<br />
build. The course was largely routed by architect Ted Baker and built by<br />
Don Dawkins, whose family owned The Old Hide House (known for<br />
the tag line “It’s worth the drive to Acton”). The late Ben Kern, former<br />
director of golf at The National Golf Club of Canada and subsequently<br />
Devil’s Pulpit, advised Dawkins on the initial routing.<br />
Opened in 1991, Blue Springs quickly became popular, putting through<br />
about 40,000 rounds a year. It was also known for its high-quality ninehole<br />
academy course, large range, and short-game practice area.<br />
ClubLink acquired Blue Springs in 1998 and undertook a series of<br />
upgrades over the years that have played a significant role in Blue<br />
Springs transcending its “hidden gem” reputation, including a $3-million<br />
renovation of the clubhouse and rebuilding the 12th green.<br />
“The biggest thing missing here was quality bunkers,” said Greg Pacenti,<br />
Director of Operations since 2003. The flash-faced bunkers washed out<br />
regularly and rocks came up continuously.<br />
In 2008, architect Paul Takahashi reshaped every bunker. The major<br />
objective was to improve drainage and playability, which included<br />
installing new Pro/Angle angular bunker sand. Takahashi removed a<br />
number of out-of-play and troublesome bunkers, and created new ones<br />
to provide targets off tees and to enhance strategy. “I’d argue that our<br />
bunkers are now among the best in ClubLink,” Pacenti says.<br />
Hole #10<br />
With renovations performed through the years and the<br />
maturing of its natural features, Blue Springs is polished and<br />
impressive. And just like that favourite out-of-town relative,<br />
Blue Springs is a lot of fun and well worth the drive.<br />
A communications professional and freelance writer, ClubLink<br />
Member Tim O’Connor has been slashing around Blue Springs<br />
since 2000.<br />
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C L U B L I N K P A R T N E R<br />
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“At AMJ Campbell Van Lines, we take tremendous pride in the fact<br />
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C l u b L i n k C u i s i n e<br />
Pan-Asian easy<br />
weeknight dinners<br />
by Patricia Uribe<br />
photos by Peter A. Sellar<br />
“Easy, quick and exotic weeknight dinners.” Sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it The last thing we<br />
need when we get home from work is to fuss with a complicated dinner, so we rely on the tried-andtrue<br />
recipes we can prepare with our eyes closed. Boring.<br />
In the mood for something out of the ordinary Something you never dreamed you could make, much<br />
less in 30 minutes These recipes are one-pot or one-pan wonders inspired by travels across Asia.<br />
Though the ingredient list may seem daunting, the following dinner menu comes together in 30 minutes<br />
from start to finish including appetizer, main and dessert. Not only are these dishes delicious<br />
enough to serve your family any night of the week, they are also special enough to entertain even the<br />
most demanding guests.<br />
Once you’ve mastered these simple recipes, they may become your newest go-tos on busy evenings.<br />
Pan Asian Dinner (serves four)<br />
Recipes courtesy of Geoff Carter, Executive Chef at The Club at Bond Head<br />
Tandoori Tilapia served with Cucumber<br />
Raita and Basmati Rice<br />
Mango and<br />
Ginger Salad<br />
Appetizer: Beef Bulgogi Lettuce Wrap<br />
Bulgogi means “fire meat” in Korean, which refers to the<br />
cooking technique—over an open flame—not the dish’s<br />
spiciness. Though most commonly made with beef, it<br />
can also be prepared with chicken or pork.<br />
3 Tbsp soy sauce<br />
1 Tbsp sesame oil<br />
1 Tbsp sesame seeds<br />
1 clove garlic, minced<br />
1 tsp white sugar<br />
1/2 tsp salt<br />
1/2 tsp ground black pepper<br />
1 lb flank steak<br />
1 carrot, julienned<br />
1 green onion, chopped<br />
1/2 cucumber<br />
1 Tbsp coriander<br />
Boston lettuce leaves<br />
Kimchee (optional) *<br />
Preheat your barbecue or a cast-iron pan. Combine the<br />
first seven ingredients in a bowl. Add the flank steak<br />
and cover with the marinade. Sear or grill the steak until<br />
medium rare. Allow the meat to rest for five minutes.<br />
Arrange the large outer leaves of the Boston lettuce on<br />
a platter (this will yield approximately eight pieces). Slice<br />
the steak against the grain very thinly, and divide into<br />
lettuce cups. Top with carrots, cucumber, green onion,<br />
coriander, and kimchee, if desired. Serve immediately.<br />
Beef Bulgogi<br />
Lettuce Wrap<br />
*Kimchee is the most common side dish or condiment in<br />
Korea. Made from fermented vegetables, it adds a salty,<br />
spicy punch to any Korean dish. Kimchee is available at<br />
Asian grocery stores and some supermarkets.<br />
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Another easy Asian dinner comes courtesy of Greystone Golf<br />
Club Executive Chef Michael Elliott. This one-pot soup is a<br />
healthy and hearty meal that can be prepared year-round.<br />
Pho Soup with Bean Sprouts, Flank Steak and Thai Basil<br />
Pho is a Vietnamese noodle soup. The flavourful broth is poured over rice<br />
noodles. This soup can be prepared with beef, chicken, shrimp or tofu.<br />
1 L homemade chicken stock or store bought broth<br />
Soy sauce, to taste<br />
2 slices fresh ginger root, peeled<br />
1 star anise<br />
1 2-inch piece cinnamon stick<br />
2 scallions, cut into two-inch lengths<br />
Black pepper, to taste<br />
6 oz rice vermicelli<br />
6 oz flank steak<br />
1/2 tsp fish sauce<br />
Several sprigs of coriander<br />
Several sprigs of Thai basil<br />
2 cups fresh mung bean sprouts<br />
Lime wedges<br />
Sambal Oelek*<br />
Combine the chicken stock, soy sauce, ginger root, star anise, cinnamon<br />
stick, and scallions in a sauce pan, and simmer for 30 minutes. While<br />
the broth is cooking, soak the noodles in warm water for 15-20 minutes.<br />
Put the flank steak in the freezer for 15 minutes, then remove and slice as<br />
thinly as possible. Strain the soup, to remove the ginger, spices and scallions,<br />
and return the broth to the pot. Bring to a boil, and add the noodles.<br />
Cook for two minutes. Add the fish sauce and flank steak, stir, and turn<br />
off the heat.<br />
Distribute herbs, bean sprouts, lime wedges and sambal oelek into serving<br />
bowls and add the broth. Serve immediately.<br />
*Sambal Oelek is a fresh-ground paste made of chili peppers, salt, and<br />
sometimes vinegar, lime juice, lemongrass, or brown sugar. The heat of<br />
the sambal depends entirely on the variety of peppers. It is available in<br />
Asian grocery stores and some supermarkets. It can be substituted with<br />
a sriracha sauce.<br />
Main: Tandoori Tilapia served with Cucumber Raita and Basmati Rice<br />
A tandoor is a cylindrical clay oven used for cooking and baking in India, as well as throughout the<br />
Middle East and Central Asia. Food is cooked over an open flame at temperatures hovering around<br />
900°F. Tandoori refers to that which comes from the tandoor. In this recipe, the high heat of the broiler is<br />
an excellent way to impart tandoori flavour to the fish. Raita is a sauce made with yogurt and used as<br />
a sauce or a dip in India and Pakistan.<br />
Tilapia<br />
3 Tbsp plain yogurt<br />
4 Tbsp Pataks Tandoori paste<br />
1 tsp coriander, chopped<br />
juice of 1 lime<br />
4 pc tilapia filets<br />
Mix together first four ingredients in a bowl. Add<br />
fish and coat with marinade. Pre heat broiler<br />
to high. Allow the fish to marinate while you<br />
prepare the raita and the rice.<br />
Basmati Rice<br />
2 cups unrinsed basmati rice<br />
3 cups cold water<br />
Salt to taste<br />
Place all ingredients in a microwave safe bowl or<br />
serving dish. Cover with plastic wrap or a lid and<br />
cook on high for 15 minutes in the microwave.<br />
Dessert: Mango and Ginger Salad<br />
4 ripe mangos<br />
1/2 tsp grated ginger<br />
2 tsp sugar<br />
1 tsp chopped mint<br />
Cucumber Raita<br />
1 cup chopped or coarsely grated cucumber<br />
1 cup chopped tomato<br />
3 Tbsp plain yogurt<br />
juice of 1 lime<br />
Salt to taste<br />
Mix all ingredients in a bowl. Reserve.<br />
To finish the main, place the tilapia filets on<br />
a baking sheet. Put fish under broiler and<br />
cook approximately eight minutes or until fully<br />
cooked. Serve with rice and top with raita<br />
Peel and cut mangos into half-inch pieces. Mix all<br />
ingredients together. You may add other fruit and<br />
berries as desired.<br />
ClubLink chefs<br />
make dinner easy<br />
ClubLink chefs are a fountain of<br />
knowledge when it comes to easy<br />
weeknight dinners. They are also<br />
a wonderful resource for Members<br />
who would like to have functions<br />
and events catered at their home.<br />
Anything from assorted deli sandwich<br />
platters to delicious and nutritious<br />
entreés are available for pick up or<br />
can be fully catered.<br />
“We will cater anything! I will consult<br />
with the guest to develop a suitable<br />
menu,” says Geoff Carter, Executive<br />
Chef at The Club at Bond Head.<br />
In addition, ClubLink offers a wide<br />
assortment of take-out items for even<br />
easier weeknight dinners. Options<br />
include soups, salads, wings, ribs,<br />
pizza, pasta, stir-frys and more.<br />
For more information on ClubLink<br />
catering, call 1-877-622-4196 or<br />
visit www.clublinkcatering.ca.<br />
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How much does the<br />
Stadium course at<br />
TPC Sawgrass owe to<br />
Glen Abbey A lot.<br />
G l e n A b b e y<br />
by Lorne Rubenstein<br />
(Lorne Rubenstein is the golf columnist for the Toronto Globe and Mail. This article<br />
first appeared there on May 10, <strong>2011</strong>, and is reprinted with permission.)<br />
The Players Championship begins Thursday at the Stadium course<br />
in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. The course is one of the most famous<br />
in the game, but what’s not as well known is that Glen Abbey Golf<br />
Club in Oakville, Ont., had a lot to do with why that is. Maybe that<br />
will change now that Adam Schupak’s new book, Deane Beman:<br />
Golf’s Driving Force, is out.<br />
Beman, 73, is the progressive, forceful man who was the PGA Tour’s<br />
commissioner from 1974 through 1994. He’d won two U.S. Amateurs<br />
and a British Amateur before turning pro in 1967. (Canada’s great<br />
Gary Cowan beat Beman to win the 1966 U.S. Amateur). Beman<br />
won four PGA Tour events before becoming commissioner, and soon<br />
he was pushing hard for the PGA Tour to have its own course and its<br />
own flagship tournament.<br />
Schupak tells this story and many others in his deeply researched<br />
and timely book. A senior writer for Golfweek magazine, Schupak<br />
has written a strong book about a strong-minded man. Schupak<br />
interviewed more than 200 people, had access to Beman’s complete<br />
files, and examined minutes of the PGA Tour’s policy board meetings.<br />
The PGA Tour wouldn’t be what it is today if not for Beman. He was<br />
a visionary who didn’t mind making waves and alienating people if<br />
need be.<br />
The story of the Stadium course at TPC Sawgrass is central to the<br />
book. The reader learns that it’s possible the course wouldn’t have<br />
been built had Jack Nicklaus not designed Glen Abbey for the Royal<br />
Canadian Golf Association (now known as Golf Canada). One can<br />
debate day and night as to whether the Canadian Open should move<br />
around the country, which it’s doing now.<br />
There’s no better<br />
place to watch<br />
tournament golf<br />
in Canada.<br />
But one thing is certain: There’s no better<br />
place for spectators to watch tournament<br />
golf in Canada. Glen Abbey was the<br />
Canadian Open’s all-but-permanent home<br />
from 1977 through 2000 and a few times<br />
thereafter.<br />
Beman is 5 foot 7, and he rarely attended tournaments as a spectator.<br />
But he did attend the 1974 Phoenix Open after taking over as<br />
commissioner. He didn’t like what he saw, or didn’t see.<br />
“I’m looking through the back of some head trying to figure out who<br />
is doing what,” Beman told Schupak. “I said to myself, ‘Wow, can you<br />
2009 RBC Canadian Open at Glen Abbey<br />
Photo: Golf Canada Archives<br />
imagine people coming out here and walking five miles to watch<br />
this’ It’s dead flat, you can’t see anything, you don’t know what’s<br />
going on, and there are hardly any scoreboards.”<br />
By early 1979, Beman concluded the deal that gave the PGA Tour the<br />
415-acre property in Ponte Vedra Beach for its own course—for all of<br />
one dollar, a story well told in the book. He told Pete Dye he wanted<br />
him to design the course. Beman suggested that Dye and his wife,<br />
Alice, also a course architect, visit Glen Abbey. Nicklaus designed the<br />
Abbey for the Canadian Open, and meant it to be spectator-friendly.<br />
He created mounds and hillsides so that spectators could look down<br />
on the players.<br />
Schupak points out that Beman also liked the Abbey’s central core<br />
near the clubhouse, from where spectators could see play on a variety<br />
of holes. Beman and the Dyes flew up on a bitterly cold winter day.<br />
Sleet sliced across the course. Dye went out on the property for all of<br />
15 minutes while his wife stayed in the clubhouse. “I’ve looked at it<br />
and I can do better,” he told his wife.<br />
Dye was being his usual feisty self. He relished a challenge, and if he<br />
could one-up Nicklaus, all the better. Meanwhile, Glen Abbey worked<br />
its way into what he would create at the Stadium course. Beman had<br />
noticed that Nicklaus placed most of the viewing areas on the right<br />
side of the holes so that spectators could look directly at the majority<br />
of the golfers. The idea became a feature of the Stadium course.<br />
“Beman loved it,” Schupak writes. “The higher [the mounds], the<br />
better, he said, so more fans can see all the action.”<br />
There will be plenty of action at the Players, where the course is<br />
always as big a story as the tournament itself. Tens of thousands of<br />
spectators will surround the holes, especially at the famous islandgreen,<br />
par-three 17th hole.<br />
Would the course have happened without Glen Abbey and Beman’s<br />
foresight Probably not. The Stadium course was a major achievement.<br />
So is Schupak’s book.<br />
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C l u b P r o f i l e<br />
National<br />
Pines<br />
A lover’s looks and<br />
an assassin’s soul<br />
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Hole #3, Par 4<br />
Photos: Kevan Ashworth
C l u b P r o f i l e<br />
by Peter Robinson<br />
It was built 20 years ago, at a time when<br />
golf was on a precipice of a boom and<br />
some guy named Tiger was still a relative<br />
unknown. Much has changed in the<br />
game and in the area around National<br />
Pines Golf Club since it opened, but the<br />
nationally ranked course has remained<br />
an icon for golfers.<br />
When National Pines opened, it brought<br />
with it an air of exclusivity and excellence<br />
to the central Ontario region around Barrie.<br />
“I try not to look back in this business; you<br />
always have to look forward,” said architect<br />
Thomas McBroom. “But, as I remember<br />
it, we really stretched the budget on this<br />
project and I think we gave the whole region a championship-calibre<br />
course with a full array of shot values.”<br />
To get to that point, McBroom brought legendary ball-striker Moe<br />
Norman to the property to hit balls off the dirt before there was even<br />
seed in the ground. “Moe just nailed the ball every time…exactly<br />
where we asked him to hit it,” said McBroom, adding that Norman<br />
was a particular help on holes 3 and 4 and the split-fairway 15th. “The<br />
way he hit the ball assisted us on how we laid out the course.”<br />
Certainly the layout has given many players something to look<br />
at over the years. Perched primarily along Lover’s Creek—the<br />
sinuous waterway that winds across the course 14 times during a<br />
round—“The Pines” may be easy on the eyes, but it can be tough<br />
on your scorecard.<br />
Played from the tips, it measures 7,013 yards, with a course rating<br />
of 74.8 and a Slope of 146. It goes without saying that you need to<br />
be a single-digit handicapper or better to play from back there. In<br />
fact, when the undulating, sloped greens are taken into account, it<br />
can be argued that National Pines is one of the toughest, but fairest,<br />
tests in Canada.<br />
“The greens can be scary if you have long, downhill putts, but I like<br />
them because they’re true and you can make putts there if you’re on,”<br />
said Member Jeff Clarridge, the former Toronto Star Amateur winner<br />
who grew up in Barrie and sharpened his game at National Pines.<br />
“It’s a tough golf course,” said McBroom. “It’s had that reputation<br />
right out of the gate and still does.”<br />
Clarridge, who owns the course record of 64 from the gold tees, says<br />
that if you’re not a low-handicapper, it’s important not to ask too<br />
much of yourself. “It’s tough because it’s tight, but it’s not overly<br />
long, especially if you play the right tee decks for your ability. If you<br />
do that, you’ll enjoy yourself because it’s such a good golf course.”<br />
Hole #17, Par 4<br />
Clarridge, who is taking some time away from competitive golf to<br />
concentrate on finding a job in the finance industry, is effusive in his<br />
praise of his home course. “There really is not a bad hole on the golf<br />
course. I tell people that 3 and 4 are two of the toughest, best par-<br />
4s [I’ve seen] and they come back to back. And 17, anytime I talk<br />
to someone, a lot of people think it is one of the best holes they’ve<br />
ever played.”<br />
National Pines has hosted a number of elite events. The Canadian<br />
Tour Championship was held in 2007 and 2008 with future PGA<br />
Tour players Matt Bettencourt, Graham DeLaet and Spencer Levin<br />
in the field. American Byron Smith shot an astonishing 10-under<br />
62, the course record that still stands, during the final round of the<br />
2007 event.<br />
“The best round of tournament golf I’ve ever been involved with,”<br />
said winner Bret Guetz, who had an 11-shot lead on Smith when<br />
the day started and hung on to take the crown by just a single stroke.<br />
Bill Hutcheson, a Member at the time, won the 1995 Ontario<br />
Amateur at National Pines. Hutcheson’s third-round 67 is generally<br />
considered to be the best tournament round by an amateur at<br />
National Pines.<br />
National Pines Director of Operations Kevin Baillie loves his baby and<br />
drives the hour every day from his home in Orangeville to work at<br />
what he calls the “best setting for a golf course you could ever want.<br />
“Every time I drive up here, I just love the cottage-y feel to the place;<br />
it’s so far removed from the hustle and bustle of city life. I love it<br />
here. And it’s also one of my favourite places to play golf. I think<br />
we’ve done a good job keeping everything so laid-back and relaxed.”<br />
Peter Robinson is the golf columnist for CBC.ca and a contributing<br />
editor to SCOREGolf.<br />
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C L U B L I N K P A R T N E R<br />
It’s time to turn off the<br />
cruise control and put<br />
on the driving gloves<br />
by Himalaya Jain<br />
Director of Canadian Equities, Portfolio Advisory Group, ScotiaMcLeod<br />
Conventional finance education and popular investing philosophy<br />
have suggested that equity markets generally rise over time. On a<br />
rear view mirror basis, equity market returns have been attractive.<br />
Over the past 30 years, the S&P TSX Composite total return<br />
(with dividends reinvested) has been approximately 9% on a<br />
compound annual basis. During this period, the price-only index<br />
has appreciated at an annual rate of 6%, while dividends have<br />
contributed the remaining 3%. Will the next 5, 10, or 30 year<br />
period yield similar returns for Canada’s premier stock index We<br />
think it is unlikely. Indeed, we expect that equity markets in most<br />
Western countries may be range bound for the next 1-3 years. In<br />
this environment, we think the majority of returns will come from<br />
dividends, with potential supplementation from active trading.<br />
Should this scenario unfold, we think access to sound investment<br />
advice has never been more important.<br />
Over the past 30 years, nominal GDP growth has been approximately<br />
5.5% on a compound annual basis in both Canada and the U.S.<br />
While it is difficult to dispute factual historical data, we think it is<br />
important to understand the context under which this economic<br />
growth and equity returns were achieved. In addition to population<br />
growth, productivity improvement and development of natural<br />
resources, we contend that favourable monetary and fiscal policies<br />
have provided a steady tailwind to most Western economies over<br />
the past three decades. As discussed below, this tailwind has not<br />
just stopped blowing, it could become a headwind.<br />
After peaking in the early 1980s, interest rates have declined<br />
dramatically over the past 30 years. In Canada, the bank rate has<br />
fallen from 21% in August 1981 to 1% currently, while the U.S.<br />
Fed Funds rate has fallen from 15% to 0.25% over a similar period.<br />
This multi-decade decline in interest rates has played a key role<br />
in boosting values of a wide range of assets, including real estate,<br />
bonds and equities. With stimulative effects of monetary policy<br />
virtually exhausted, future appreciation of asset values must rely<br />
on conventional drivers such as income/profit growth.<br />
Loose fiscal policies of many Western governments have also been a<br />
material contributor to economic growth over the past 30 years. So<br />
much so that several countries are now facing unprecedented levels<br />
of government indebtedness and are under pressure to reduce<br />
deficits. The deleveraging process is in the early innings, and will<br />
act as a drag on future economic activity. Consumer deleveraging<br />
in the U.S. has been underway for the last two years and could<br />
continue for at least another two.<br />
Another factor weighing on economic growth in Western<br />
countries has been the emergence of China, India and other<br />
developing economies. While global trade has been enhanced by<br />
the reduction or elimination of barriers, there has been a significant<br />
dislocation of industrial production from developed countries to<br />
emerging ones, contributing to elevated levels of unemployment<br />
in Western economies.<br />
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It is primarily for these reasons that economic growth in most<br />
Western economies, including Canada, is likely to remain<br />
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At ScotiaMcLeod, we have been encouraging our clients to adopt a<br />
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The “new normal” of lower investment returns means that investors<br />
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O n e o f C l u b L i n k ’ s<br />
“ m o s t s i g n i f i c a n t ” a d d i t i o n s<br />
by Brent Long<br />
In the mid-1980s, 10 partners, many of them with connections<br />
to Hidden Lakes Golf Club in Burlington, Ont., decided to turn<br />
a horse farm abutting the spectacular Niagara Escarpment near<br />
Milton, Ont., into a golf course. This summer, Greystone, now a<br />
ClubLink Prestige Club, celebrated its 20th anniversary, despite a<br />
rocky start.<br />
Robbie Robinson, who remains a part-owner and superintendent at<br />
nearby Hidden Lake Golf Club, recommended Doug Carrick as the<br />
architect for the job. Carrick had spent several years apprenticing<br />
for Robbie’s uncle—noted Canadian golf course architect C.E.<br />
(Robbie) Robinson, a colleague of the iconic Stanley Thompson—<br />
and Carrick had just finished his first big project, King Valley Golf<br />
Club near Aurora, Ont. They didn’t consider anyone else, despite<br />
Carrick’s wrong turn on his way to the site to meet several of the<br />
partners for the first time.<br />
“I turned off Highway 401, went in the<br />
wrong direction, and was about an hour<br />
late for our first meeting,” says Carrick, who<br />
didn’t have the advantage of GPS or a cell<br />
phone back in those days. “I thought it was<br />
a beautiful property with great potential.”<br />
There were horses on the farm and even<br />
an indoor training center that remains as<br />
the Club’s maintenance facility today. “I<br />
remember one day we were staking the fairways. The horses were<br />
following us and knocking over the stakes as we went along,” he<br />
says with a grin.<br />
Construction started in the fall of 1989, continuing throughout<br />
1990, and Greystone opened for play in the summer of 1991.<br />
Despite edging up as far as they could into the escarpment on<br />
the back nine to create dramatic views and elevation changes,<br />
Carrick’s goal was to make the routing walkable with a classic<br />
Stanley Thompson feel to the bunkers. It has changed very little<br />
over the years.<br />
Initially, the concept called for equity memberships selling<br />
for $40,000 to $45,000, but that proved to be a tough sell in<br />
a depressed economy. “They sold about 40 memberships, but<br />
with the recession, it hit a brick wall,” says George Tidd, a<br />
founding partner who remains a part-owner and CPGA executive<br />
professional at Hidden Lake. “It really is a special golf course.<br />
Originally only 380 people were going to be able to play it, but<br />
with the change of ownership and what ClubLink has done,<br />
thousands of people have enjoyed Greystone.”<br />
Marcello Gasparetto, now 80 years old, initially purchased the<br />
horse farm for $150,000, as a retirement property. He thought<br />
about buying a few cows and just enjoying the view, but he says,<br />
“a lot of people with more brains than I had, said it could be one<br />
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of the great golf courses in the country,” so he went ahead with the project. It wasn’t until they made the<br />
mistake of deciding to spend about $4 million on the clubhouse that they ran into problems and found<br />
themselves $2 million short. Gasparetto, who owned two shares, figures he lost about $750,000 of his own<br />
money, but it didn’t break him. “It wasn’t the end of the world. The end of the world is when you die. I’m<br />
still here enjoying life and really proud of what I did with Greystone.”<br />
“They never went into receivership, but [the bank] pushed them to sell,” says Bruce Simmonds,<br />
ClubLink’s founder and CEO at the time. “The timing turned out to be the worst for them and the<br />
best for us.” Simmonds recalls working much of the summer of 1994 to reach an agreement to acquire<br />
Greystone, while he also worked on a deal to purchase the defunct Elgin House property in Muskoka<br />
out of receivership for $1.95 million. He was at Glen Abbey Golf Club watching the Canadian Open in<br />
September when he was notified a deal was ready to be signed for Greystone and it closed in November.<br />
“In my mind, they were two of the most significant additions in ClubLink history,” says Simmonds.<br />
Greystone filled a geographic strategic hole between Cherry Downs Golf and Country Club in the east<br />
end of Greater Toronto, Heron Point Golf Links to the west, with Emerald Hills Golf Club and King<br />
Valley Golf Club closer to the centre. In the fall of 1994, ClubLink announced the acquisition of two<br />
properties in a creative teaser campaign and a few months later identified them as Greystone and Elgin<br />
House, which would become The Lake Joseph Club.<br />
“We sold between 200 and 250 memberships at Greystone that year and another 300 at Lake Joe,”<br />
says Simmonds who equated it to “selling candy to children.” In 1995, the economy turned positive and<br />
ClubLink soared to new heights.<br />
Simmonds believes the toughest stretch of holes of any ClubLink property can be found on holes three<br />
through eight at Greystone. He also thinks the course is home to what are arguably the toughest greens in<br />
Ontario. Carrick concurs. “I realized I needed to pay more attention to green slopes. There are a few quick<br />
ones out there, but that gives it some character.”<br />
Brent Long owns Longshot Communications, a golf marketing, writing and photography business based in<br />
Burlington, Ont. He wrote about King Valley’s 20th anniversary in the Summer <strong>2011</strong> issue of ClubLink Life.<br />
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C l u b L i n k E v e n t S 2 0 1 1<br />
It’s been an<br />
“event-full”<br />
year!<br />
ClubLink’s Corporate Executive Chef, John<br />
Curtis, doing his best in the Beat-the-Chef<br />
competition at the Roxul Culinary Challenge.<br />
Photo: Peter A. Sellar<br />
Bud Light Muskoka Pro-Am<br />
June 5 – 7 at<br />
Rocky Crest, Grandview and The Club at Bond Head<br />
PRO AM<br />
Callaway Golf Glencairn<br />
27-hole Pro-Am<br />
June 20 at Glencairn Golf Club<br />
Winners Anthony <strong>Winter</strong>, John Stratigeas, Rich Thompson and golf<br />
professional Jon Hackett with their trophies at the Bud Light Muskoka Pro-Am.<br />
Photo: Peter A. Sellar<br />
The Lake Joseph team comprised of Steve Hunt, Dennis Chadala, golf<br />
professional Ryan Beaudoin and Jerry Wallace took home the trophies at<br />
the Callaway Golf Glencairn 27-hole Pro-Am. All four also won a fabulous<br />
golf getaway to Carlsbad, Calif., from Callaway and ClubLink.<br />
Photo: Peter A. Sellar<br />
TaylorMade adidas<br />
Junior Interclub<br />
Aug. 3 at Station Creek Golf Club<br />
Yvan Cournoyer Celebrity Classic<br />
sponsored by Bell<br />
Aug. 4 at Club de golf Le Fontainebleau<br />
Photo: Peter A. Sellar<br />
The victorious Greenhills Junior team: Austin Kielt, Matt Dominski<br />
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C l u b L i n k E v e n t S 2 0 1 1<br />
Direct Energy Sens Fore Kids Classic<br />
Aug. 9 at<br />
GreyHawk Golf Club<br />
ScotiaMcLeod Championship<br />
presented by<br />
Ostaco WindoWs and Doors and WestJet<br />
Aug. 13 – 15 at Islesmere and Le Fontainebleau<br />
Ian Hutchison and the ScotiaMcLeod team<br />
pose with Ottawa Senators centre, Jesse Winchester.<br />
Raymonde Desaulniers and Dr. Denis Desaulniers after their big win.<br />
Direct Energy Damon Allen Charity Classic<br />
Aug. 18 at Glen Abbey Golf Club<br />
Budds’ Jaguar Land Rover<br />
Feast of the Fairways<br />
Aug. 26 at Glen Abbey Golf Club<br />
Damon Allen, Wendel Clark and trick shot artist Todd Keirstead at the<br />
Direct Energy Damon Allen Charity Classic to benefit junior football<br />
programs in the GTA and the Canadian Junior Golf Association.<br />
Nike Men’s Member-Guest Championship<br />
Aug. 28 and 29 at Rocky Crest Golf Club<br />
Connor McKenzie of Eagle Ridge and his guest Jeff Beedham<br />
were the undisputed Member-Guest champions. Jeff Beedham,<br />
Vitalis Gomes (Director of Marketing at Nike Golf), Connor McKenzie,<br />
Ryan Kilpatrick (Associate Professional at Eagle Ridge) and<br />
Tim Green (ClubLink’s Executive Director of Sales and Marketing).<br />
Photo: Peter A. Sellar<br />
Rick Valin, Enzo Dilorento, Ed Diamond, Peter Degiuli and Terry Budd gather<br />
for a group photo before heading to the kitchen to prepare the feast.<br />
Vincent Damphousse ALS Classic<br />
sponsored by Bell<br />
Aug. 30 at Club de golf Islesmere<br />
Vincent Damphousse presents the ALS Society with an oversized cheque<br />
after the tournament. Yvon Lambert, Vincent Damphousse, Claudine<br />
Cook (Executive Director of the ALS Society), Michel Beaudry, Daniel<br />
Malandruccolo (Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the ALS Society).<br />
Photo: Line Fortin, courtesy of the ALS Society Photo: Peter A. Sellar<br />
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ScotiaMcLeod Ladies’ Member-Guest<br />
Aug. 31 at DiamondBack Golf Club<br />
C l u b L i n k E v e n t S 2 0 1 1<br />
American Express Men’s Night Championship<br />
Sept. 27 at Wyndance Golf Club<br />
King Valley winners Wendy Blackburn and her guest Linda McKee show off<br />
their trophies with Bev Moir of ScotiaMcLeod at the ScotiaMcLeod Ladies’<br />
Member-Guest at DiamondBack Golf Club in Richmond Hill, Ont.<br />
King’s Ridiing Members Vito Froio, Glenn McFadyen, Michael Froio<br />
and Bob Callow (not pictured) won the American Express Men’s<br />
Night Championship at Wyndance Golf Club.<br />
Roxul Culinary Challenge<br />
Sep. 15 and 16 at Greystone Golf Club<br />
PC Financial Championship<br />
Ladies’ Interclub<br />
Sep. 18 and 19 at Rocky Crest and Grandview<br />
John Curtis (ClubLink’s Corporate Executive Chef) and Michael Elliot<br />
(Executive Chef at Greystone Golf Club) help kitchen staff with presentation.<br />
Lincoln Championship Men’s Interclub<br />
Sep. 25 and 26 at Rocky Crest and Grandview<br />
Photo: Peter A. Sellar<br />
Photo: Peter A. Sellar<br />
The Eagle Ridge ladies’ Interclub team after beating out all other ClubLink<br />
Clubs at the PC Financial Championship Ladies’ Interclub in Muskoka.<br />
Greg MacMillan (Director of Operations, Muskoka), Mary Jo Jans (ladies’<br />
captain), Angie Anderson, Pam Piotrowski (ladies’ vice captain), Ruth<br />
McBride and Todd Stephens (Head Professional at Grandview).<br />
American Express Jazz Evening and Pro-Am<br />
Oct. 11 at The Club at Bond Head<br />
Photo: Peter A. Sellar Photo: Peter A. Sellar<br />
The Eagle Ridge men’s Interclub with their prizes. Ryan Kilpatrick (Associate<br />
Professional), Thomas Larsson, Patrick Leonard (men’s captain), Roy Spear,<br />
Mark Hendry. Rob Sampogna (not pictured).<br />
The team from Treasury Wines Estates came out on top in the sponsor<br />
division at the American Express Jazz Evening and Pro-Am. Team<br />
members: Dana Ryall, Bradlee Ryall, Nick Falbo and Tony Mazzarolo.<br />
C l u b L i n k L i f e | 4 9
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C l u b L i n k P a r t n e r s<br />
When golf is more than a game<br />
by Tim O’Connor<br />
When Michael Miske attends events such as the ScotiaMcLeod<br />
Mixed Championship presented by WestJet, he often cannot help<br />
smiling from ear to ear.<br />
As Director, Head of Marketing, for ScotiaMcLeod, Miske sees<br />
ClubLink Members on the range improving their games with help<br />
from ClubLink golf professionals. After they hit balls, many Members<br />
will chat with a ScotiaMcLeod wealth advisor about improving<br />
their financial picture. (There is some incentive: They receive a free<br />
SkyCaddie SG5 Range Finder as a thank-you for getting a second<br />
opinion from a ScotiaMcLeod advisor).<br />
“For us, it’s about establishing relationships with people, and ClubLink<br />
provides us with a unique opportunity to do that,” Miske says.<br />
ClubLink’s business relationships with companies such as<br />
ScotiaMcLeod and other partners provide a win-win scenario for the<br />
businesses and ClubLink Members.<br />
For Members, interclub events such as the Mixed<br />
Championship are available only at ClubLink, and<br />
sponsorship makes them attractive, successful,<br />
and provides additional value. For companies<br />
such as ScotiaMcLeod, they provide an effective<br />
opportunity to interact and communicate with a<br />
large and concentrated group of successful people.<br />
“We were attracted to ClubLink by the quality of the Clubs and the<br />
membership. The Members have investable wealth that’s aligned with<br />
the focus of our business and the type of advice we offer,” says Miske,<br />
whose company is presenting sponsor of the Lincoln Men’s Interclub<br />
Championship and Nike Men’s Member-Guest Championship, and<br />
Official Wealth Management Company of eight events such as the<br />
Bell Tournament of Champions.<br />
“ClubLink is unique. Our involvement with ClubLink allows us to<br />
make our service known and get our advisors out to meet with people<br />
and form relationships that increase the awareness of the type and<br />
depth of advice we offer,” Miske adds.<br />
With more than 22,000 Members in Ontario, Quebec and Florida,<br />
ClubLink is indeed unique with its reciprocal-play concept and<br />
scale. This has provided opportunities for ClubLink to develop loyal<br />
business relationships with respected companies such as WestJet,<br />
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These relationships provide ClubLink Members with benefits that<br />
are exclusive to ClubLink, such as discounts on products and services,<br />
“ It’s about establishing<br />
relationships with people<br />
and ClubLink provides<br />
us with a unique<br />
opportunity to do that.”<br />
access to limited programs, and participation in events available only<br />
through ClubLink.<br />
For example, ClubLink Members receive a 10-per-cent discount<br />
off WestJet fares to Florida from Ontario and Quebec. WestJet<br />
also provides free travel as prizes for many tournaments and<br />
interclub championships.<br />
ClubLink’s relationship with WestJet sets up a mutually beneficial<br />
relationship for the Canadian airline and ClubLink Members. WestJet<br />
is presenting sponsor of the ScotiaMcLeod Mixed Championship and<br />
Official Airline of six events such as the Amex Men’s Night Team<br />
Championship and the Direct Energy Sens Fore Kids Charity Classic.<br />
Through its relationship with ClubLink, WestJet can communicate<br />
effectively to a large number of people who frequently travel to its<br />
destinations, including many Members who own second homes in<br />
destinations such as Florida and California.<br />
“Working with ClubLink provides us with an<br />
opportunity to talk to avid golfers with high<br />
disposable income for travel for business or<br />
leisure,” says Duncan Bureau, Vice-President, Sales<br />
and Owner WestJet Airlines/WestJet Vacations.<br />
“ClubLink has world-class facilities so brand<br />
alignment made sense. They are doing a great job<br />
communicating to their Members. It’s been a good fit.”<br />
Bureau also notes that their business relationship with ClubLink<br />
provides WestJet with opportunities to host clients at ClubLink<br />
Clubs. “Spending four hours on a golf course with a decision maker<br />
is one of the best things you can do to develop a relationship,”<br />
Bureau says.<br />
Along with hosting events, a business relationship with ClubLink<br />
also provides opportunities to communicate through the company’s<br />
vehicles such as ClubLink Life magazine and the NewsLink video<br />
network on HD screens in clubhouses. Advertising in ClubLink Life<br />
appears only from companies that enter a broad business relationship<br />
with the company. ClubLink does not solicit outside advertising on<br />
an ad-hoc basis.<br />
“This style of doing business means that ClubLink can offer a wide<br />
variety of events and programs that are uncluttered, in good taste<br />
and first class,” says Charles Lorimer, ClubLink Vice-President,<br />
Sales and Marketing. “It’s another win-win for our business partners<br />
and Members.”<br />
C l u b L i n k L i f e | 5 1
G u e s t c o l u m n<br />
Do we love golf<br />
You can bet on it!<br />
In a manner of speaking, the greatest golf hole I<br />
ever played began with a drive that clipped an<br />
overhanging hydro wire and bounced off a tree. The<br />
second shot was a slash that never escaped the rough,<br />
the third was a decent longish poke that fell into a<br />
green-front bunker (it was a par-5), and the fourth was<br />
a very ordinary sand splash that left 20 feet for par.<br />
Ah, but that putt rolled its way in for a glorious par<br />
and my pal George merely shook his head. We were<br />
gambling and that five was far more than a par. It also<br />
was an Arnie, named for (the congregation shall now<br />
rise) Arnold Palmer, meaning a par made without<br />
benefit of a ball in the fairway or a green in regulation.<br />
It was a sandy, meaning a par made after finding any<br />
bunker on the hole. It was a barky, meaning a par<br />
made after hitting any tree on the hole. It also, George<br />
informed me, was a sparky, a local rule that means a<br />
par made after hitting any part of a hydro tower or line.<br />
So there you have it: An Arnie, sandy, barky, and sparky.<br />
Four bonus points! Alas, I forget how I spent that extra<br />
40 cents.<br />
Gambling on golf has been going on as long as, well,<br />
golf. Is there anyone among us who doesn’t view<br />
the game as more enjoyable with a little something<br />
depending on the outcome<br />
There are golfers who like to play for dimes and others<br />
who hustle for hundreds and thousands of dollars. I<br />
knew of a guy who worked a mark for three months,<br />
built the price to the level he wanted, then went to his<br />
car to get his left-handed clubs. He turned around at<br />
the first tee to his natural swing, shot the lights out and<br />
left with all the money.<br />
For those of us whose skill levels don’t match the larceny<br />
in our hearts, there are any kind of friendly gambling<br />
games. The names are half the attraction, ranging from<br />
the simple Nassau to Hollywood to Sunningdale to<br />
Wolf to Bingo-Bango-Bongo to Name That Tune to<br />
Gruesomes, among others, many concluding with that<br />
fearsome Snake.<br />
Everybody knows their favourite games, by one name<br />
or another. Nassau is a three-part head-to-head match,<br />
with bets on the front nine, back nine and full 18.<br />
Hollywood, also known as Round-Robin or Sixes,<br />
involves a foursome playing with each other golfer as<br />
partner for six holes. They can play high-low (a point<br />
for each), or high-low-total (a point for the total-score<br />
element, which can get expensive).<br />
Those who play Bingo-Bango-Bongo usually award a<br />
point (whose value has been established beforehand)<br />
for such items as longest drive, closest to the hole<br />
in regulation and first into the hole, which involves<br />
strictly observing the rule that furthest from the hole<br />
plays next, everybody marks every putt and nobody<br />
taps in or says those sweetest of all words: “That’s<br />
good. Take it away.”<br />
Name That Tune is a prediction game. The team with<br />
the honour, before teeing off, suggests the two of them<br />
can play this particular hole in, say, 10 strokes. The<br />
other team of two can bid nine strokes for themselves,<br />
or challenge them at their call. It can get hairy.<br />
The Wolf, my favourite four-man game, involves a set<br />
batting order. On the first hole, No. 1 is the Wolf and<br />
he hits, then watches the others tee off. He must select<br />
his partner after he hits, but before No. 3 hits. Next<br />
hole, No. 2 is the Wolf and so on. If a man refuses the<br />
selection as partner, he goes alone and the other three<br />
are called the Three Little Pigs.<br />
Hey, nobody said we were all adults all the time.<br />
Among the cutthroat four-man games is Gruesomes, in<br />
which both players on a two-person scramble team hit,<br />
then the other team decides which drive they will play<br />
the rest of the way. That one can get silly.<br />
So can the $5 Snake (which I have seen played for<br />
$100 a person). All it entails is the last player to threeputt<br />
pays each opponent the $5 (or whatever). If two<br />
players three-putt the same hole, the guy screwing up<br />
from the shorter distance holds the Snake.<br />
by Dave Perkins<br />
The rules to<br />
remember for<br />
all betting:<br />
1. Don’t bet more than<br />
you want to win.<br />
2. Declare all income<br />
on your taxes. I<br />
mean, who doesn’t<br />
3. You cannot claim<br />
your regular<br />
foursome as<br />
dependents.<br />
Dave Perkins has<br />
covered sports for Toronto<br />
newspapers for 37 years,<br />
the past couple of decades<br />
as columnist for the<br />
Toronto Star. When it<br />
comes to golf, he has more<br />
enthusiasm than talent.<br />
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F o r e W r i t e !<br />
by Jim Apfelbaum<br />
J. H. Taylor said it was keeping “the eye<br />
unswervingly upon the ball.” Johnny<br />
Miller was speaking about Fred Couples<br />
when he said: “Even his bad shots are<br />
good. That’s the secret of golf.” Threetime<br />
U.S. Open champion Hollis Stacy<br />
was even more succinct. “Water. Drink<br />
water.” “The secret of the golf game,”<br />
wrote Henry Cotton, “is the control of the<br />
tension of the fingers during the stroke.”<br />
Oh, there are a million of them. I’ve been<br />
writing them down for years.<br />
Ben Hogan’s secret may indeed lay<br />
buried in the dirt. It may also have been<br />
something of a private joke, peddled first<br />
to expectant LIFE magazine readers, and<br />
still circulating in startling numbers to new<br />
hopefuls buried between the covers of his<br />
manifesto. (Hint: for some real fun, locate<br />
a copy of Power Golf, and marvel at the<br />
photos of his then past-parallel swing.)<br />
Time has hardly dimmed the speculation.<br />
Ever since, the Hogan Secret has continued<br />
to spark discussion, evolving into a sort of<br />
Lost Dutchman mine for no less delusional<br />
prospectors. Books have been written.<br />
It may be any of several things. Having<br />
read everything with more than passing<br />
interest, I’m inclined to conclude it has<br />
less to do with physical cues than with<br />
roots submerged in deep mental and even<br />
psychological waters.<br />
There is one view worth mentioning. Jody<br />
Vasquez shagged balls for Hogan in high<br />
school. He minded his Ps and Qs and<br />
slowly a friendship kindled. In his 2004<br />
reflection, Afternoons with Mr. Hogan,<br />
subtitle: A Boy, A Golf Legend and the<br />
Legends of a Lifetime, he shares perhaps<br />
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Do you want<br />
to<br />
secret<br />
know a<br />
the least hyper explanation. I’ll give you<br />
the short version:<br />
The secret is the correct functioning of the<br />
right leg, with emphasis on maintaining<br />
the angle of the right knee on the back and<br />
forward swings. Combined with a slight<br />
cupping of the left wrist, it produces optimum<br />
balance and control, and allows you to apply<br />
as much speed and power as you wish.<br />
Hogan admired Bill Mehlhorn, a seminal<br />
but obscure early PGA Tour winner. He<br />
went so far as to single out Mehlhorn<br />
(January, 1975) as “…the best I ever saw<br />
from tee to green.” High praise. Wild<br />
Bill’s inventive thoughts on the swing,<br />
incidentally, have been released in a<br />
splendid book of interviews titled—wait for<br />
it—Golf Secrets Exposed. A contemporary<br />
of Harvey Penick’s, with a photographic<br />
memory, Mehlhorn borrowed some of<br />
his early life experiences wielding an<br />
axe to form his own views on the secret.<br />
“Don’t use more than two-thirds of<br />
your effort unless you have to,” was one<br />
pronouncement, advice he said he’d been<br />
given by Harry Vardon.<br />
An exception must have been the day they<br />
played 36 holes in the 1926 Irish Open. It<br />
poured. Umbrellas were useless. One par-5<br />
into the wind, Vardon, Bill remembered,<br />
required the use of five successive drivers to<br />
reach the green; Mehlhorn hit four drivers<br />
and a 2-iron. This after each drove the<br />
preceding hole downwind, a 420-yard par-4!<br />
His take on the secret Positive thinking.<br />
“That’s the main thing. If there is such a<br />
thing as a secret in golf or any other game,<br />
that’s it. Muscles and joints have to be at<br />
ease in their performance. That’s my idea,<br />
if there is such a thing as a secret.” What he<br />
calls muscles and joints at ease, you and I<br />
know as tension.<br />
My own views of the secret have<br />
undoubtedly changed over the years. As<br />
I think about golf more than play it, they<br />
increasingly veer towards a crystalline<br />
observation of Andra Kirkaldy. The pro<br />
at St. Andrews for 50 years, succeeding<br />
Old Tom Morris, Andra had seen many<br />
things, and lived that rich, full life in golf<br />
in the ancient university town that Bob<br />
Jones alluded to in his famous address.<br />
Reflecting upon a year of triumphs and<br />
inequities, Andra’s views are offered with<br />
my best wishes for peace on earth and<br />
sneaky longness.<br />
“Great golfers are born. Great golfers<br />
are made,” he wrote. “We cannot all be<br />
champions, still less than any of us hope<br />
to be a champion among champions,<br />
like Harry Vardon, or Young Tom Morris<br />
before him. But we can be golfers in the<br />
real sense of the word. We can get the good<br />
of the game, which is the great thing today<br />
more than at any other day.”<br />
Jim Apfelbaum is ClubLink Life’s writer at<br />
large. He lives in Austin, Texas.
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