Cataraqui Golf and Country Club
| Location | 961 King Street West Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 4V6 |
|---|---|
| Established | 1917 |
| Club type | Dedicated Ice |
| CCA region | OCA Zone 4 |
| Sheets of ice | Six |
| Rock colours | Blue and Yellow |
| Website | http://www.cataraqui.com/Curling.aspx |
Cataraqui Golf and Country Club is a private golf and curling club located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1917.
Cataraqui G&CC was established in 1917. Its founding followed the World War I-era construction of the LaSalle Causeway and provincial highway, across the Cataraqui River as it feeds into Lake Ontario. The new highway also crossed the property used by the Kingston Golf Club, disrupting the flow of play there. Kingston had been a military centre since its founding as Fort Frontenac by French explorers in 1673, on the site of an aboriginal settlement known as Cataraqui, and the military base was being expanded with the world war, necessitating the causeway and highway construction. The Kingston GC, located on the Barriefield Commons, just north of the Royal Military College of Canada and Fort Henry, and just east of the Cataraqui River, was the first golf course in the area; it had operated from 1886 to 1888 and then again from 1892, eventually with 13 distinct holes, and was a charter 1895 member of the Royal Canadian Golf Association. The first Canadian Amateur Championship winner in 1895, Thomas Harley, a Scottish immigrant carpenter and stevedore, employed on the dockyards at RMC, represented the Kingston Golf Club. The Kingston Golf Club operated until 1925, with a modified layout, but the area's golfers gradually switched to Cataraqui.
The original course at Cataraqui was located past the western edge of the city at that time, on Lake Ontario. It had six holes; the club gradually acquired more land and expanded to 13 holes by 1921; by June 1925 the course had 18 holes. One of the original designers may have been George Cumming, a top Toronto golf professional, Canadian Open and Canadian PGA Championship winner, and golf course architect, who is a member of the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame.
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