Golf Canada
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| Sport | Golf |
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| Founded | 1895 |
| Headquarters | Oakville, Ontario |
| President | Roland Deveau |
| Chief Exec | Jeff Thompson |
| Replaced | Royal Canadian Golf Association |
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Golf Canada, formerly known as the Royal Canadian Golf Association (RCGA), is the governing body of golf in Canada.
On April 22, 2010, the Royal Canadian Golf Association announced its name change to Golf Canada. Golf Canada will retain its predecessor's role in maintaining and growing the sport in Canada, along with launching a new membership program to help fund its amateur and junior programs while providing travel and insurance benefits to golfers who sign up.
Golf Canada was founded on June 6, 1895 as the Canadian Golf Association at the Royal Ottawa Golf Club. The Royal prefix was granted to the CGA in June 1896 by Queen Victoria through then Governor General of Canada, Lord Aberdeen. Aberdeen was a patron of the RCGA.
The first real international boom in golf happened in the 1890s. In response to this, the first golfing associations were formed, the Golfing Union of Ireland in 1891 and the Ladies' Golf Union in 1893. The organization of golf in Britain itself was directed to the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews as the historic seat of golf. In 1894 two attempts to establish a national championship in the United States were made, neither of which became recognized as the national champion. Later in 1894, representatives from five prominent U.S. clubs gathered to form the United States Golf Association.
The first meeting to discuss the formation of a Canadian Golf Association was held on June 6, 1895 at the Royal Ottawa Golf Club. The secretary of the club, Alex Simpson, was a strong proponent of organizing a national organization to conduct national championships. In 1895 he invited clubs from across Canada to attend "the first national golf championship", and to discuss the organization of an association with the mandate of conducting such events. It was agreed that such an association should be formed, and would hold its first Annual General Meeting on September 27, at the time of the Interprovincial Matches between Ontario and Quebec.
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