Saturday, September 11th and Sunday, September 12th
(Practise Round -- Friday, September 10th)

Contact Information

Paul Dietz
509 Hedden Court
Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
N7S 6L8
519.331.6585
clubdoc@ebtech.net

or

Doug Marshall
dougmarsh7@aol.com.

Basic Information

Please consider this your personal invitation
to join
The Golf Historical Society of Canada
 at the eighth annual
C.B. Macdonald Tournament
and the
Eastern Canadian Hickory Championship 

More Information

This event will be played at the Niagara Golf Course
 at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada.

The unique location and format of this tournament
makes it a favorite for avid hickory players!

Entry fee is $240.00 
and includes the Friday practice round.

Charles Blair Macdonald
is one of the founders of the United States Golf Association
 and its first official champion, in 1895.

A controversial figure, he went on to become a noted author and architect,
creating many outstanding golf courses.
The best of these are the National Golf Links of America in Southhampton,
New York, Mid-Ocean, in Bermuda, the Yale University course, and the
Old White Course, at the Greenbrier.

What is not well known is that he was born in Canada, in the Niagara Peninsula,
near Niagara on the Lake.
His family had a second home there, and he wrote fondly of the area.
Macdonald was also an organizer of the first US-Canada tournament
held in Niagara on the Lake, the first week of September, 1895.
It was called the International Championship Tournament.

This event was held on the circa 1875 golf course
at the mouth of the Niagara River.
This course is the oldest known golf club in North America
still on its original site.
He and Charles Hunter of Toronto organized the event
and Chicago friends came to participate in this historic event.






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