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It’s been 18 years since the first TELUS Skins Game hit Ontario in 1993.  Even in its first year, the event attracted the best of the best — Jack Nicklaus, Nick Price, Ray Floyd and Freddie Couples. 18 years later, some of the names may have changed, but what hasn’t changed is the calibre of professionals who annually flock to …

Recently a follower on Twitter commented that my bio should be in the world record books for “most mentions of the word ‘golf’!”  Haha…they have a point I guess.  Here’s how it goes…”I love playing golf, watching golf, writing about golf, reading about golf, travelling and reviewing golf courses. In my spare time, I’m a marketing consultant who wishes she …

My golfguy always says, “Life is easy. Golf is hard.” And with my game, I’ve never been able to dispute that. But when I was struck down by the flu and a viral infection recently, I saw things in an even more depressing light — Life became hard and golf, impossible.  Oh joy! Being trapped inside a framework of festering …

Spring is in the air is a term that just did not fit the best place on earth this year. In fact, it was warmer in Vancouver during the Winter Olympics than it was from March through April. Golfing was a real challenge unless you like wearing 10 layers of clothing and fur-lined golf gloves. Being a golf addict, I …

WOOHOO!!!! We did it!  We banded together, blogged and facebooked and twittered about it.  We voted religiously every day in April and our votes resulted in Peggy Ference winning the US Open Challenge Contest.  Check out the story in Golf Digest. I am so excited for her.  Now everyone of us golfgals can live a bit vicariously through her as …

Well, the wait is over for all of us Big Break fans.  Big Break Sandals has finally been announced.  And it’s promising to be the most entertaining Big Break since the ladies battled it out in Maui in 2008. Check out this line up of chicks with sticks… From left to right:  Maiya Tanaka, Sara Brown, Elena Robles, Ryann O’Toole, …

This week I sat in on a conference call where the Royal Canadian Golf Association (RCGA) announced that it has re-branded its consumer facing side…Golf Canada. Now, I’m usually pretty skeptical about re-branding initiatives– often they are just superficial face lifts without real change or much substance. But I’m happy to say that Golf Canada is much more than a …

Normally I don’t get all excited about the US Open Challenge. In the past I’ve watched a bit of it, but it always seemed like a way for celebs to show off (not big into pro-ams either) and average Joe’s to be humiliated. Remember 2008 at Torrey Pines where it all started…John Atkinson, an 8-handicapper, shot 114. In 2009, at …

Last summer the National Golf Foundation released their 2008 report on the number of people who played golf in the USA over the past decade. Of the 25.7M adult golfers in the US in 2008, only 5.2M of them were women – just over 20.2% of the total.  That’s the lowest percentage we’ve seen since 2000. It’s a sad trend …

Recently I was asked by a colleague of mine why I tweet. She understood why Facebook was so popular, but Twitter’s value was not obvious to her. I felt that way when I first started tweeting, but decided to give it some time and it didn’t take long for its value to jump off the screen at me. Twitter has introduced me some of the greatest …