St. George's Golf and Country Club, Private golf course in Toronto, Canada
St. George's Golf and Country Club is a private facility in Toronto featuring an 18-hole course laid out across natural terrain with sand bunkers and maintained greens. The layout takes advantage of the land's existing slopes to create varied playing conditions.
Robert Home Smith of Stratford-upon-Avon founded the club in 1909 on land beside the Humber River, building it alongside the Royal York Hotel under Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty. Stanley Thompson designed the Islington Avenue course, which opened in 1929 and hosted the Canadian Open in 1933. After Smith died in 1935, Godfrey S. Pettit became president, and in 1946 the club took the name St. George's when its financial arrangement with the Canadian Pacific Railway ended.
The club's name changed from The Royal York Golf Club to St. George's in 1946, when the financial arrangement with the Canadian Pacific Railway ended. It has hosted the Canadian Open six times, from Joe Kirkwood Sr.'s 1933 win to Rory McIlroy's in 2022, and the Canadian Women's Open five times between 1975 and 1984. In 2020 members voted to end curling at the club, and the former curling space became an indoor golf facility and pickleball court.
The facility is open to members and their guests throughout the day, with tee times available depending on the season and demand. Visitors should arrange their visit in advance and follow club protocols during their time there.
The club's curling section ended in 2020 when members voted it out as "no longer a good fit for golf"; the former curling space now holds an indoor golf facility and a pickleball court. Hosting the Canadian Open required closing Islington Avenue and shuttling players to the nearby Islington Golf Club for practice.
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