Golf Saskatchewan - Saskatoon

Golf Saskatchewan (GS) is the new consumer facing brand owned by the Saskatchewan Golf Association (SGA). Golf Saskatchewan’s logo and name were approved at the annual general meeting on April 16, 2011 at the Royal Regina Golf Club, Regina, Saskatchewan.

For more details on the brand launch following the 10 year anniversary click here.

The SGA as it is now organized was officially incorporated for business on April 12, 1999, but it was formed on Jan. 1, 1999 through the amalgamation of the former Saskatchewan Golf Association (an all-male organization) and the Canadian Ladies’ Golf Association (CLGA) Saskatchewan branch.

The SGA represented the first provincial amalgamation of men’s and women’s golf associations in Canada. The SGA amalgamation has since been followed by Alberta, Ontario and Manitoba. The previous SGA and CLGA-Saskatchewan organizations were formed in 1913 and 1926 respectively.

Ninety Years of Golf By Micky Boyle

The SGA’s mandate is to represent all golfers in Saskatchewan in an equitable manner. Through affiliation with the RCGA (and the former CLGA), it is the governing body for amateur golf in Saskatchewan.

“The story of golf in Saskatchewan began with a meeting to organize the Regina Golf Club in the law office of Hamilton and Robson on Saturday, March 21, 1896. According to the Regina Leader-Post, Jack Harrison came in from Pense to explain the game and how to establish a golf club.

“Regina’s first golf was played north of the Wascana Creek, approximately where Angus and Leopold Crescents are today. The area was owned by the Canada North-West Land Company, which had allowed the property to be used as a sports ground since the beginning of the city.

“The first Saskatchewan amateur championship was held at this original location of the Regina Golf Club starting Thursday October 1, 1908.”

–Excerpts from Ninety Years of Golf, by Mickey Boyle

Breaking 100 by Sandra Bingaman

“Most of Saskatchewan’s early golf courses…were of more modest design. One of the organizers of Regina’s two golf courses wrote a book entitled Mystery of Golf, in which he describes a typical prairie course: ‘Clubhouse there is none: you throw your covert coat and your hat over a fence and play. There are no greens, there are no flags; the player more familiar with the ground goes ahead and gives you the line. The teeing grounds are marked by the spots where the soil has been scraped by the boot for the wherewithal for tees. Bunkers abound, and bad lies in the form of hoof marks and cart ruts do much more abound. Sheep and kine roam over them at will.’

“It is hard to document exactly what part women played in the earliest years at the newly established golf clubs. …There are brief mentions of women participating in some of the activities.

“By 1912 the women at the two Regina clubs had started to organize competitions. In September the Wascana held a tournament in which two women played against the men in an open event, and nineteen took part in a nine-hole women’s handicap competition.”

–Excerpts from Breaking 100, A Century of Women’s Golf in Saskatchewan, by Sandra Bingaman

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