The Toronto Golf Club originated in 1876, and is the third oldest golf club in North America after Royal Montreal Golf Club (founded 1873), and the Royal-Quebec Golf Club (1875). It originated on a parcel of land known as the Fernhill property, which was included within the City of Toronto in the 1900s. In 1909, the Club obtained a new charter without share capital, and in this the original name of the Club, “The Toronto Golf Club”, was restored. The following year it was decided to acquire a new site.
The present site of the Club is in Mississauga, Ontario on the banks of the Etobicoke River, and its 18-hole course was designed by the renowned English architect Harry Colt. The course was ready for play in the fall of 1912, and its clubhouse was completed in 1913. In 1919, the Club bought additional land to the north, and had a new nine-hole course built which opened in 1921.
The Toronto Golf Club has hosted Canadian Open five times; twice at its old location in Toronto, Ontario in 1905 and 1909, and three times at its current Mississauga, Ontario location (1914, 1921 and 1927). Its championship course currently extends to 6,549 yards from the back tees, and plays to par 70. (Slope: 129 Rating: 71.6) The Toronto Golf Club has hosted the Canadian Amateur Championship eight times, more than any other club.
Famous quotes containing the words golf and/or club:
“Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.”
—Franklin Pierce Adams (1881–1960)
“The barriers of conventionality have been raised so high, and so strangely cemented by long existence, that the only hope of overthrowing them exists in the union of numbers linked together by common opinion and effort ... the united watchword of thousands would strike at the foundation of the false system and annihilate it.”
—Mme. Ellen Louise Demorest 1824–1898, U.S. women’s magazine editor and woman’s club movement pioneer. Demorest’s Illustrated Monthly and Mirror of Fashions, p. 203 (January 1870)