April 23rd in Courses, Features, Places, Travel Bag.

From Sea to Sky

Victoria, B.C.’s Bear Mountain Golf Club

By Tony Dear

For a world-class international golf getaway, there’s no need to look past our own Northwest Borders.
The minutes from Arbutus Ridge’s Nov. 14 Greening Committee meeting say a lot about where the course’s priorities lie. Sprinkled liberally throughout the document are words and phrases like “composting,” “recycling, “habitat management,” “Audubon certification” and “aggressive conservation program.”

Chairing the Greening Committee is Gracie Wilcox, who works in the golf shop and who is clearly …

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April 22nd in Places, Travel Bag.

Putting In Paradise

Anyone who plays golf on a regular basis knows that it’s more than just a game — heck, if the only pleasure you got out of a round of golf was putting the ball in the hole (or, more accurately, trying to put the ball in the hole) there would be a lot more clubs in garbage cans than in golf bags.

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