The Media Has Just Gone …
GOLFERAZZI from The SPRING 2010 Magazine | talking in your backSwing : Ian Hutchinson I write this column on my 55th birthday, an occasion with cause to reflect back to simpler times when if I was seeking golf information, I would actually pick up a golf publication instead of clicking on to TMZ or scanning the supermarket tabloids. Usually, I only looked at the tabloids to identify this week’s alien and I always suspected golf personalities such... [Read More...]
Golf’s Impact …
FOR THOSE WHO STILL FEEL THE NEED TO STUDY from The Fall 2009 Magazine | talking in your backSwing : Ian Hutchinson Four days after the National Allied Golf Associations trumpeted the findings of their economic impact study, I went and played a casual round with a bud of mine, a typical Saturday morning pastime for folks who merely love the game as opposed to working within it. From what I saw that day, there were no high fives between golfers about... [Read More...]
Temper Expectations
… of rising Canadian Stars from The Summer 2009 Magazine | talking in your backwing : Ian Hutchinson Just as quickly as Matt Hill of Bright’s Grove, On., and Nick Taylor of Abbotsford, B.C. got in Canadians’ faces with their recent successes, many of those Canadian fans and media were suddenly expecting them to be the next great homebrews on the PGA Tour, even if both were strangers to these bold prognosticators. That obsession with the... [Read More...]
No Matter the Circumstances
…longing for golf remains our annual ‘rite’ from The Spring 2009 Magazine | talking in your backwing : Ian Hutchinson The euphoria of spring sets in just after the Masters in this part of the world, at least partially driven by the manicured fairways of Augusta – as does Canadian golfers longing for the game. This past winter was particularly nasty and it wasn’t just because of the wind, snow or cold temperatures, although... [Read More...]
It’s Time to Start Listening
Golf is one of the few businesses these days that collectively doesn’t carry out a regular dialogue with the people who use its product. The reason for that may stretch back decades to a time when golf was primarily a country club game with relatively few places to play, so supply and demand was definitely tilted in favour of supply, or the golf facilities. Story by Columnist Ian Hutchinson That started to change as an evolution took place, particularly... [Read More...]
There is Much to be Said For Timing
The Royal Canadian Golf Association gets a tip of the hat for impeccable timing with the introduction of Vision 2010, but to suggest it was planned to coincide with positive news would be cynical and nothing more than a nudge-nudge, wink-wink to those who put the RCGA’s three-year, strategic plan together. One of the objectives of the plan is to have the majority of the top 20 players on the PGA and LPGA Tours at the RBC Canadian Open and CN Canadian... [Read More...]
Regaining Perspective from Readers
Over pints and putts, those who indulge in golf as a pastime and not a profession have often remarked that I have the greatest job on earth, an opinion that is based on perception, but not necessarily reality. What they don’t see are the deadlines, the research, weekend work, internal politics, ego and all of the other realities that are part of life for anybody trying to earn a paycheque. The thing about golf publishing is that you spend more time... [Read More...]
