ATTACK IN BUENOS AIRES

Find out on page 7 how the Canadian Amateur teams han-dled the 1972 terrorist attack.

CGHF COLLECTION GROWING

Check out what’s been added to our collection in 2007 on page 5.

Rubenstein and Lapointe Inducted

CANADIAN GOLF HALL OF FAME

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HISTORY ON A HIGHWAY?

Museum partnership high-lights local history on page 2.

The International Sports Heritage Association bestowed an award upon the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame in recognition of our outstanding achievement in communications in the ‘Beyond the Fairway’ speakers series DVDs.

The series features the stories of Honoured Members Ada Mackenzie, Stanley Thompson, George Knudson, and Moe Norman, as told by family and friends who knew them best.

To purchase any of these DVDs, please visit our website at www.cghf.org or call 1-800-263-0009 ext. 411.

Canadian Golf Hall of Fame in the Leonard E. Shore Building 1333 Dorval Drive, Oakville, ON L6M 4X7 Phone 905.849.9700 x411 Toll Free 1.800.263.0009 Fax 905.845.7040 Email cghf@cghf.org www.cghf.org

CGHF Wins ISHA Award

Throughout her illustrious playing career, Mary Ann Lapointe has distinguished her-self as one of North America’s top female amateur golfers. Among her many accom-plishments, the native of Lachine, Que. is a four-time Canadian Amateur Champion, a six-time winner of the Quebec Amateur Championship, a five-time Ontario Ama-teur champion and a 12-time winner of the Ontario Mid-Amateur Championship. She has been a member of countless inter-provincial teams for Quebec and Ontario and in 2005, Lapointe became the first Canadian to win the US Mid-Amateur title. At the international level, Lapointe has represented Canada eight times at the World Amateur Championship and four times at the Commonwealth Matches.

Mary Ann’s induction ceremony took place at her host club, North Halton Golf and Country Club, on the eve of the Canadian

Women’s Amateur Championship (July 28th).

The more than 130 people present enjoyed the stories from fellow competitor Judith Allan-Kyrinis, caddy Joey (Joanne) Bush and Mary Ann’s brother John. Thank you to North Halton Golf and Country Club, their staff and the general manager Trevor Noonan for an excellent event.

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area, highlighted by 24 Canadian Open Golf Championships.

This audio tour can be played while you tour the route in your car, on a bike or while walking.

The CD is easy to follow and can be paused or stopped if you would like to explore the area or enjoy the unique shops and res-taurants along the way. To make your journey even more trouble-free, the inside cover of the CD can be unfolded to yield a map along with notes highlighting no-table stops, historic plaques, and other places of interest.

You’ll recognize many of the voices who will help lead you on your journey including Mayor Ha-zel McCallion and Ann Mulvale,

Launch of Audio Tour

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An innovative joint partnership has taken place between the Mu-seums of Burlington, Oakville Museum at Erchless Estate, the Mississauga Museums and the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame. Through a $25,000 grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, these partners launched a CD au-dio tour of The King’s Highway, to highlight the rich history along the historic route on Lakeshore Road that links these communi-ties.

The King’s Highway serves as a terrific conduit to tell stories of the area including the battles of the War of 1812, the underground railway terminus in Oakville, bootlegging across the lake and the recreational history of the

as well Toronto news reporter Marlane Oliver.

The King’s Highway CD can be obtained without charge at any of the museums listed above, as well as in the Burlington and Oakville tourism offices. There are limited copies available, and they are run-ning out – be sure to get yours soon. As a special thank you for enjoying the audio tour, your en-tire party will receive complimen-tary admission to the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame, Museums of Burlington, and the Oakville Mu-seum at Erchless Estate. Two-for-one admission is also available for the Museums of Mississauga. Visit us online at www.thekingshighway.ca to learn more about this unique project.

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For almost 30 years, Lorne Rubenstein has been chronicling the game of golf in Canada and around the world. Renowned as one of this country’s pre-eminent golf journalists, he has written a weekly column in the Globe and Mail since 1980, appeared in every major golf publication in Canada and abroad – winning many awards along the way – authored a number of best-selling books, hosted television shows and offered commentary on radio. He has covered golf at both the amateur and professional level and has co-authored books for many of the game’s top players. Through his career, the Toronto native has also spent time as a curator for the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame and Museum, was the first editor of SCORE Golf magazine, caddied on the PGA Tour and has written a num-ber of golf club histories.

Maple Downs Golf and Country Club was the site of Lorne’s in-duction ceremony on June 28. Also attended by more than 130 friends, relatives, supporters and industry representative, Lorne’s friends Bob Weeks and Harvey Freedenberg spoke about Lorne – eloquently, often with humour – but always with great respect.

From the Archives

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Four-time Canadian Amateur Champion Nick Weslock during the 1964 Canadian Amateur Championship held at River-side Country Club in Saska-toon, Saskatchewan.

1967 golf stamp from Monserrat celebrating the international year of the tourist.

1974 Canadian Junior Team Champions from Que-bec, (left to right) Francois Mathieu, Robert Gauthier, John Holzman (Captain), Serge Thivierge, and Yves Tremblay.

NOTE: Photo shows signs of damage after improper storage. The CGHF has now ensured that the material is stored in a safe archival manner.

Clubhouse of Stanley Thomp-son designed St. Georges Golf Club in Etobicoke, Ontario.

Hall of Fame Members’ Birthdays

Dawn Coe-Jones October 19th Bob Panasik October 20th Gary Cowan October 28th Gayle Borthwick December 3rd Nick Weslock December 13th Marilyn O’Connor December 17th Doug Roxburgh December 28th Wilf Homenuik December 30th Doug Silverberg January 16th Jack Nicklaus January 21st

Dave Barr March 1st Marlene Streit March 9th

Mary Ann Lapointe March 10th

Milestone Birthday

A special birthday wish is extended to Mr. Nick Weslock who will be celebrating his 90th birthday on December 13th.

Congratulations

Congratulations to Dave Barr for winning the 2007 Canadian PGA Seniors’ Championship on July 22, 2007. This is his first Canadian PGA Seniors’ title.

Celebrations

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The Hall of Fame’s second annual Golf Tournament was hailed as a great day by all who attended. Much of that success can be attributed the venue and, of course, the Hall of Famers who joined us. The interna-tionally renowned, Stanley Thomp-son-designed Banff Springs golf course provided the perfect setting for the spectators, who included Carole Silverberg, Pat Petersen and Karen Hewson, to watch the some of Canada’s greatest players play their game.

The tournament played host to four of Calgary’s legendary golfers: Keith Alexander, Marilyn O’Connor, Doug Silverberg and Bob Wylie. They were joined by Ontario Hall of Fame members Gary Cowan and Sandra Post. Cowan currently holds the title of having played in the most Hall of Fame tournaments.

Hall of Fame Tournament As the six teams teed off at 10 a.m., the sun was gleaming and warmed up the chilly morning mountain air. One participant remarked that hav-ing the chance to watch so many of this country’s outstanding golfers play one of Thompson’s most re-vered courses was “an outstanding honour.” Although a few of the Honoured Members in attendance claimed that it had been a while since their last game, their skill and love for the game were evident.

Thank you to all those who attended the event. Special thanks are also due to the Banff Springs staff who wel-comed us warmly and provided us with great hospitality. Stay tuned for the next issue of news to learn how you can participate in next year’s tournament.

Honoured Members (left to right) Keith Alexander, Marilyn O’Connor, Doug Silverberg, Bob Wylie, Sandra Post, and Gary Cowan

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New Acquisitions

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One of the many joys of working as curator at the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame and Museum (CGHF) is meeting visitors and collectors who share a passion for the sport. As an added benefit, visitors and collectors are some-times the owners of amazing golf-related treasures.

This year, we were very lucky to receive many generously donated artifacts from donors, who are instrumental in the growth of our ever-increasing collection. As part of the CGHF’s mandate, we preserve these treasures to allow future visitors and researchers the chance to learn about our increasing golf heritage.

New items that have recently been added to our collection include:

The CGHF was also honoured to receive this year a magnificent collection highlighting one of our Honoured Members golf career.

Margaret Todd, who competed in many international events for the Canadian Ladies Golf Union (Association), and served on its Board of Directors for numerous years, donated over 200 pieces to the collection. A small por-tion of her illustrious collection has been put on display in the Honoured Members room of the CGHF. Effective November 1st the museum has moved to its winter hours. We will now be open Monday-Friday from 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. and Sunday from 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Keith Alexander Film footage from his amateur career

Stuart Bendelow Book: Thomas ‘Tom’ Bendelow: The Johnny Appleseed of American Golf

George Cumming (grandson to Hall of Famer George Cumming)

His grandfather’s ivory ruler and pocket knife

Michael Lay Various golf clubs from the twentieth century and framed art work

Penny Lewick Volunteer uniforms from Canadian Open tournaments from the 1970s –

1990s

Ruth Madill Album recordings of Byron Nelson from the 1945 Canadian Open

Bob Moir CBC recordings and film from the 1960s – 1980s

Ian Murray (grandson to Hall of Famer Albert Murray)

Albert Murray’s photograph albums

Pierre Nadon Personal golf library

Bob Nutley Large collection of antique golf clubs

Pengrowth Cash donation

John Stone Canadian Open memorabilia

Ivory ruler and pocket knife engraved with “GC” belonging to Honoured Member George Cum-ming

Donated by George Cumming

1978 Canadian Open volunteer dress and hat

Donated by Penny Lewick

place.

Following the amalgamation of the RCGA and the CLGA, the new RCGA Women’s Division sought to reflect the new status of women’s amateur golf in Canada in the championship trophies. Given the history behind the Mary Pyke trophy, it was decided to reinstate the role it was intended for – the Junior Inter-provincial Team Tro-phy.

In 2007, the Mary Pyke was awarded to the British Columbia Junior Girls’ team of Jessica Wal-lace, Dominique Pytlewski, Sue Kim, and Christine Wong.

Inconsistencies in regards to the engraving are expected as many individuals who read the trophy’s many winners might be confused as to what the trophy was awarded for. We hope to have a small plaque placed on the trophy base to explain the history of this beau-tiful silver trophy.

Featured Trophy

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It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of Jack Todd and Bud Donovan.

Jack Todd, husband of Honoured Member Margaret Todd, passed away on May 28, 2007 as a result of complications from Parkinson’s disease. Jack was a great sup-porter of Canadian sport and of his wife of 65 years.

On May 30, 2007, golfer Bud (Daniel James) Donovan passed away after complica-tions from a respiratory infection. Best known for coming in second behind U.S. professional Tony Manero in the first General Brock Open, Donovan was also a member of the Canadian team that travelled to Britain in 1935 to participate in the Goodwill Tour. In his later years, Bud became a golf commentator for Toronto radio station CFRB and the CBC.

Remembering

There was some confusion this year at the reappearance of the Mary Pyke trophy at the 2007 Jun-ior Girls’ Championship.

The Mary Pyke Rose Bowl trophy was first presented to the Canadian Ladies Golf Union by Mrs. Graeme (Mary) Pyke. It was awarded by the CLGU in 1957 to the junior provincial team with lowest aggregated score in the jun-ior inter-provincial team matches.

Just five years later, the Mary Pyke Rose Bowl was “reassigned” to be given for the low aggregate net score – so that the Ada Mackenzie trophy could be awarded to the overall winning team.

It may seem hard to believe, as the Ada Mackenzie trophy is so closely tied to the Canadian Senior Women’s Championship but that did not occur until 1971. That year the Ada Mackenzie trophy was suitably “recast” as the Senior Tro-phy and the CLGA Junior Chal-lenge Trophy was introduced in its

New Curator at the CGHF

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After 11 years with the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame, Paul Stone has moved on to become the Curator of Collections for the Museums of Burlington.

During his tenure, Paul was instrumental in both the disassembly and the development and subsequent reopening of the Hall of Fame between 2001 and 2003. He developed and constructed more than 10 travelling exhibits and managed the largest Canadian golf collections, which include items ranging from books to programs, tickets, clubs, clothing, and more.

Taking over for Paul is museum assistant Meggan Pacheco. Meggan is a past graduate of the Museum Management and Curatorship program at Sir Sandford Fleming College and has worked at such heritage sites as the Peterborough Centennial Museum and the Hockey Hall of Fame.

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Terrorist Attack at the 1972 World Amateur The beginning of the 1972 World Amateur Team Championship did not start well for the Canadian team of Marlene Streit, Gayle Borthwick, Marilyn Palmer (née O’Connor) and Margaret Todd. Thanks to numer-ous connections en route, it was a long flight from Toronto on October 4th for the entire team. As team cap-tain Margaret Todd lamented, “on arrival in the airport [in Buenos Ai-res], we were greeted with the cheer-ful news that all of our luggage had been left behind in Toronto on the tarmac”.

After the long drive to their hotel, the team learned that good news would not prevail. The hotel they had booked into was one room short, with the team’s rooms scattered around the premises and far too

small for a two-week stay, as Marga-ret recorded in her report of the event. In response, they relocated to the hotel where many other teams were staying – the Buenos Aires Sheraton.

Once they had settled into their ac-commodation, golf became the prior-ity. The World Amateur Team Championship for the Espirito Santo Trophy commenced, and was unfor-tunately unremarkable for the Cana-dian team, outside of Marlene’s sec-ond place tie in the individual scores.

On Friday afternoon, the men’s team of Doug Roxburgh, Dave Barr, Nick Weslock, Keith Alexander and team captain Bruce Forbes arrived and booked into the Sheraton, just in time to attend the joint celebration on Saturday evening. The event

marked the end of the women’s por-tion of the event and the beginning of the men’s tournament. The Cana-dian women’s team was booked to stay in Buenos Aires for an additional week, scheduled to leave on the 21st.

On Monday, the men’s practice rounds began and Doug, Dave, Keith and Nick spent the day at the course, practicing and doing some amateur filming of other players, following which they arrived back to the hotel and retired to their rooms. At 6:00 p.m., Dave Barr was looking out the window of their 8th floor room when the hotel was rocked by an explosion and debris began drifting past the window. Doug and Dave’s room was directly below the location of the detonated bomb.

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Image is from the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame and Museum Bruce Forbes collection

All images are from the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame and Museum Bruce Forbes collection

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Confusion and anxiety proceeded for hours as the hotel was evacuated and the injured were taken to hospital. The damage was extensive as we can see from 8mm footage shot by Keith Alexander, as he and the team, remarkably, were able to walk through the bombed-out rooms.

The female team later discovered that a Canadian, Lois Crozier from Vancouver, British Columbia, had perished in the explosion. The team had met Lois only a short time before, while she was on vacation with her husband. Amazingly, Lois’ death was the only causality in this attack.

The women were staying on the 21st floor of the hotel and were soon moved to the 10th floor to spend the night. However, as they discovered later, the threat was actually still very real – and numerous other bombs had been placed strategically around the hotel but failed to explode. No doubt, if those bombs had been detonated, the entire hotel would have been reduced to nothing but rubble and ash.

In a sign that the 1972 championship took place in very different times than what we live in today, the men’s tournament was not cancelled, or even delayed, and everything proceeded as originally planned. Unfortu-nately the men’s teams were dogged by bad luck later that week, when three days later, the shuttle bus between the golf course and the hotel caught fire en route. “Everyone bailed out of the windows, and it be-came every man for himself, trying to hitchhike a ride into town,” re-membered the captain, the late R.B. Forbes.

While the men profess not to have been too concerned about the inci-dents, the women’s team did take heed of the potential dangers. Although the ladies had not planned to return to Canada until the 21st of October, they opted to find the next available flights out of Argentina.

Many theories exist as to why the Sheraton was set as the target for this terrorist attack. Was it the return of politician Peron to Argentina after a 17-year exile? Was it a Marxist attack against anything American? Was it the many international athletes that had traveled from all over the world to participate in the 1972 World Amateur Championship? It was only weeks earlier, at the 1972 summer Olympics, that 11 Israeli athletes were murdered in Munich. Or, perhaps the terrorists were attempting to de-stroy the same hotel which had been the setting of an unsuccessful bombing attempt the previous year.

World Amateur cont.

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