Scarboro Golf and Country Club

Edit links
Coordinates: 43°45′13″N 79°12′42″W / 43.7537°N 79.2118°W / 43.7537; -79.2118
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Scarboro Golf and Country Club
Club information
Scarboro Golf and Country Club is located in Toronto
Scarboro Golf and Country Club
Location in Toronto
Coordinates43°45′13″N 79°12′42″W / 43.7537°N 79.2118°W / 43.7537; -79.2118
Location321 Scarborough Golf Club Road
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M1J 3H2
Established1912 (1912)
Typeprivate
Total holes18
Websitescarborogolf.com
Designed byA. W. Tillinghast
Par71
Length6,547 yards

The Scarboro Golf and Country Club is a private club in eastern

Scarborough. Until 2018, it had facilities for curling and has an 18-hole golf course that is ranked among the top courses in Canada.[1]

The club was founded in 1912 by stockbroker A.E. Ames.

Winged Foot amongst others), his only work in Canada[2] and in his only work outside of the United States.[3] In 1947, legendary golf course designer Stanley Thompson was commissioned to reduce the severity of some of the slopes on the course including major work on a hill on the eighth hole.[4] The course plays to par 71, and it plays to 6,547 yards from the championship tees[2] through the West Highland Creek valley. The creek comes into play as many as 11 times in 18 holes, and the hilly terrain, gullies and trees as natural hazards, making artificial hazards almost unnecessary at Scarboro.[citation needed
]

The club has been host of the Canadian Open golf tournament four times,[2] as follows:

Numerous other professional and amateur events have been conducted on the club's fairways, most recently hosting the 1987 and 2012

British Open champions, Arnold Palmer and Gary Player.[3] In 2022, the club was host of the 100th Ontario Amateur Championship.[6]

The course gives its name — with a change in spelling to Scarborough — to the north-south concession road astride which it lies, Scarborough Golf Club Road.

The widening and construction of a bridge under the adjacent GO Transit Lakeshore East line local rail corridor was cited as the reason for the closing of the curling facility in 2018, a decision taken by club's board of directors, and supported by a majority of club shareholders,[citation needed] though closing the curling facility was not absolutely necessary for the widening. The decision caused some controversy as some curling club members wanted the facility to remain.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Top 100 Golf Courses in Canada 2008". ScoreGolf. 2008. Retrieved 2017-05-06.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "About". Scarboro Golf & Country Club. Retrieved 2017-05-06.
  3. ^ a b c "Scarboro Golf and Country Club Quick Facts". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16.
  4. ^ "Scarboro Golf & Country Club". Stanley Thompson Society. Retrieved 2017-05-06.
  5. ^ "History". Scarboro Golf. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  6. ^ "Scarboro G&CC Ready to Host Centennial Men's Amateur - Golf Ontario". 2022-07-10. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  7. ^ McKeen, Alex (2018-01-08). "Historic curling club in Toronto on chopping block". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2020-07-31.

External links

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scarboro_Golf_and_Country_Club&oldid=1188794805"