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Owen Sound Ledgerock
Distance: 24.5 MiPO Box 445 Stn Main
N4K 5P7 Owen Sound -
Goderich Sunset Golf Club
Distance: 46.8 Mi33937 Golf Course Rd
N7A 3Y3 Goderich -
Central Huron
Distance: 56.8 Mi23 Albert St
N0M 1L0 Clinton -
West Haven Golf and Country Club
Distance: 99.3 Mi7038 Egremont Dr RR 41
N6H 5L2 London -
FireRock Golf
Distance: 101.6 Mi10345 Oxbow Dr PO Box 296
N0L 1R0 Komoka
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Description
The oldest nine at Saugeen Golf Club - Legacy - is the one that carries the trademark expertise of renowned Canadian architect Stanley Thompson. Thompson grew up in Toronto, caddied in his youth and competed in amateur golf. But he went on from all that to design and renovate courses after serving in World War I. Between 1920 and 1953, he designed, remodeled or built more than 145 courses in Canada, the United States, the Caribbean and South America, including the Banff Springs Hotel Golf Course and Jasper Park Golf Course. He was also a founding member of the American Society of Golf Course Architects. Among architects whom he employed in his business were Robert Trent Jones Sr., Geoffrey Cornish, Howard Watson and Robbie Robinson - designers who went on to found their own distinguished firms. Although for many years, he was not widely known outside of Canada, his fame has grown recently, and many now rank his work with that of Donald Ross and A.W. Tillinghast. He was elected to the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame in 1980 and there is a society that honors his work. For more information on Stanley Thompson, visit the website listed below.