Champions Associated With Royal Ottawa
The winner of the first Canadian Open, in 1904, was John H. Oke, one of the Club's early professionals. Karl Keffer, Canadian Open champion in 1909 and 1914, served as head professional for many years. David Black was a professional at the Club in the early 20th century, and a founding member of the CPGA, before moving to Vancouver, B.C. to take a new job, and his son, Ken Black, who learned his golf at Royal Ottawa, won the 1936 Vancouver Jubilee tournament (as an amateur, becoming the first Canadian to win a PGA Tour event) and the 1939 Canadian Amateur Championship. Alexa Stirling Fraser, an American who married Ottawa doctor W.G. Fraser, had been a young golf prodigy and three-time U.S. Women's Amateur champion from Atlanta, Georgia, before settling in Ottawa and joining the Club; she won two Canadian Ladies Amateur Championship titles, contended several more times, and won a record nine Royal Ottawa Ladies' Club Championships. Eric Kaufmanis of Ottawa holds the course record, with a round of 9-under-par 62, scored in 1979. Karl Keffer, David Black, Ken Black, and Alexa Stirling Fraser are all members of the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame.
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