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Glen Abbey Golf Club

1333 Dorval Drive, Oakville, Ontario L6M 4G2

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Glen Abbey – The Heart of Oakville

Over the last 30 years, the Glen Abbey property has come to define the character of the Oakville community. While most widely recognized for its role in Canada Golf and the home of the Canadian Open, the 92.7-hectare (229-acre) property has a diverse past that contributes to its cultural heritage. Its lands were home to Indigenous peoples recognized under the 1763 Royal Proclamation. Beginning in 1795, treaties with the British resulted in new settlements on the lands beside Sixteen Mile Creek, notably farms and a sawmill. It then became a 1950s Jesuit religious retreat, and a 1960s golf course country and ski club. Its current form is dominated by the 1970s vision to design the lands to provide an innovative hub and spoke, spectator-friendly golf course for both recreational and championship use.

Designed in 1976 by legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus, Glen Abbey is one of Canada’s most famous golf courses. Glen Abbey was Canada’s first, and one of the first courses in the world, built for spectators, thanks to its combined stadium design with a hub-and-spoke layout. Both design features have influenced golf course design around the globe. A few other notable designs bits :

• Glen Abbey is a very good representative of the emphasis on finesse rather than pure strength, in the ‘strategic’ tradition of golf course design.

• The spectator mounds not only provide for intimate and unobstructed viewing, but also frame the fairways and greens.

• Situated alongside Oakville’s picturesque Sixteen Mile Creek, the course’s unique valley holes are considered among the most beautiful and challenging in the sport.

• The 17th and 18th holes have been recognized as among the most successful finishing holes in international championship play.

• The Clubhouse, designed by Crang and Boake Ltd (one of Canada’s largest architectural firms in the late 20th Century), was purposely built into the landscape of the 18th hole to heighten the drama of finishing play for spectators.

• The RayDor Estate house, a relatively rare French eclectic style of architecture, with its carved stone exterior, red clay tile roof, leaded casement windows, ornamental main entrance with ornamental surround and solid oak door, hipped dormers and stone chimneys with clay pots, was one of Oakville’s first estate homes.

The 109th Canadian Open

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The Canadian Open, organized by Golf Canada, was first contested in 1904. Played annually continuously since then (except during World War I and World War II) the Canadian Open is the third oldest continuously running tournament on the PGA TOUR, after The Open Championship and the U.S. Open.

Only two players have been able to capture golf’s Triple Crown (consisting of winning all three National Open titles in the same season); they are Lee Trevino (1971) and Tiger Woods (2000).

As a national open, the event had a special status in the era before the professional tour system became dominant in golf.

The top three golfers on the Mackenzie Tour – PGA Tour Canada Order of Merit prior to the tournament are given entry into the Canadian Open.

Celebrated winners include Leo Diegel, Walter Hagen, Tommy Armour, Harry Cooper, Lawson Little, Sam Snead, Craig Wood, Byron Nelson, Doug Ford, Bobby Locke, Bob Charles, Arnold Palmer, Kel Nagle, Billy Casper, Gene Littler, Lee Trevino, Curtis Strange, Greg Norman, Nick Price, Vijay Singh, Mark O’Meara, Jim Furyk, Tiger Woods and Jason Day, just to name a few. The Canadian Open is regarded as the most prestigious tournament never won by Jack Nicklaus, a seven-time runner-up.

Submitted July 23, 2018 at 10:32AM by GrittyThePup https://ift.tt/2OclFTR