Founding, Early Years
The Club was founded in 1891, as the Ottawa Golf Club. It was the host of founding meetings of the Royal Canadian Golf Association (in June, 1895), and the Canadian Professional Golfers' Association (in July, 1911). Since 1895, it has hosted many significant amateur and professional championship tournaments (see below).
The Club's first site, a 9-hole course, was built on land lent by Charles Magee, a real-estate developer, in a section of Ottawa (now near downtown) known as Sandy Hill. The first Canadian Amateur Championship was played on this course in June, 1895. Soon after that, responding to pressure on prime real estate in the rapidly expanding city core, the Club moved to a new site in the province of Quebec, just across the Ottawa River from Ottawa to the north, a mile north of Hull, Quebec, along Chelsea Road. This course consisted of 12 holes, of which 6 had to be played twice to comprise an 18-hole round.
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