April 2000 Lifetime Achievement Awards
Prescott's J.D. Mackay has virtually spent all his life on the golf course located just a few yards from his home. Mackay the club champion a total of 29 times, poses in front of what was the course's first club house, near the 18th tee, now used to store fertalizer.
Jack Saunders 83 has been an active member for 60 years and still manages to get in quite a few games weekly. At one time he had his own construction company and was the designer of various aspects of the club.
From such humble beginnings in 1939, the Prescott Golf Club celebrated it's 60th anniversary in 1999, 600 members strong, a million dollar operation on a challenging and well kept 18 hole layout.
In 1939, 76 acres of land east of Boundary St. was purchased from the Canadian National Railway for the pricely sum of $1,500.00 and the Prescott Golf Club was formed. The rough was waist high and the dues were $7.50 for women and $10.00 for men for the 75 members. When the club looked to expand it's nine-hole course in 1988 it bought another 25 acres from the Province, it paid $20,000.00 for the land that was to become the second nine holes. It is a success story of prevererance, hard work and forsight, taking a rock strew pasture for a sport that was low profile in 1939 and developing a first-class facility for a popular and fast growing recreational activity.
Prescott, Ontario Canada
