I avoided the sea to the right, and the wide diagonal swathe of marram grass, lifting and falling in sympathetic motion. He had not reckoned with the last dregs of the family gene pool.
In a rare moment of golfing competence, I birdied an almost blind par three, designed by my great uncle, Willie Park Jr, to demoralise the overconfident. Some years ago, in 1995, I was lucky enough to play The Maidstone on Long Island, with club historian David Goddard. Mungo Park describes the life and work of his illustrious ancestor The moment marked his emergence as one of the world’s greatest golfers and still stands as an exciting and memorable moment in the Club’s history.
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Certainly Arnold Palmer thought so when he mastered our championship fairways and famously fast greens to win the 1955 Canadian Open – his first professional tournament victory. Weston is ranked as one of Canada’s most challenging and enjoyable places to play. Today, our second hole, with its fairway framed by the monumental piers, is considered to be one of the prettiest fairways to be seen anywhere. to design a new 18-hole course, and we are fortunate that, despite some controversy, his vision incorporated the immense piers of the historic 1850 railway bridge. In fact, the original first tee required a drive over the river! In 1920, the Club engaged the great Willie Park Jr. The original course was shaped by the natural terrain on both sides of the railway bridge. Larger and more convenient, Pine Hills served the Club well until 1966-67 when the old building was replaced by the clubhouse that stands today. The Club paid $300 annual rent until 1921, when the former Wadsworth residence, known locally as Pine Hills, was acquired. The first clubhouse was established in the Dick Dawson residence located near the railroad bridge on the east side of the Humber. Some of the original features can still be traced today, including the remains of the millrace which once passed across the area of the current fairway. By 1915 they had acquired land from one William Wadsworth, who operated a grist and sawmill on the site, and laid out a 9-hole course. Lindsay quickly realized the potential of the flat land beside the Humber, and encouraged a group of local enthusiasts to form a club and establish a course.
While much has changed around the valley, those piers still stand today, a picturesque reminder of days gone by, and a distinguishing feature of The Weston Golf and Country Club. It was a landscape of gentle hills and flat fields set in the winding Humber River valley, spanned by the Grand Trunk Railway line on its majestic piers. When a young Scotsman named John Lindsay came to live in the town of Weston in 1909, people still remembered that the surrounding land was once treasured camping, hunting and fishing grounds of the Ojibwa and Mississauga First Nations. A Brief History of Weston Golf and Country Club
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