Golf Canada

Sure.

Golf Canada rounds, like in my-

Okay, no

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Golf Canada, uh-

No, no, no.

Complete.

Hey, where's Dwight? Where's the old prez? Uh, he's on the, he's on the back nine.

That's- that's a big commitment, um, to kinda get me started.

Um, but I would say once, um, once I was 18 I think, and I was on the Golf Canada amateur team to start-

Mm-hmm

... um, before the pro team, um, I have to, I have to say Derek.

Derek Ingram probably the most influential.

Mm-hmm.

Um, and that whole- and the whole team with Golf Canada, uh, being a part of that program just-

Yeah

Well, we're in Rocky Mountain House.

September 16th to 18th and we Canadians who realized that Golf Canada decided we were going to go to Rocky Mountain House in the middle of September we're going are you kidding me like we had a frost delay one morning yeah I don't even own warm golf clothes I had to go buy clothes to go play in this tournament because I have sleeveless shirts and shorts yeah it was one degree and So it was cold, but it's so funny because I'm with this Texan who she's like, it's 40 degrees at home.

This is, you know what I mean? They were worried about being really cold and were pleasantly surprised how nice it warmed up to during the day.

But I thought, yeah, everything is so relative.

You know, I knew that it had such a sophisticated literature.

I'd been running the golf library and museum for the Royal Canadian Golf Association on a part-time basis since they moved from just offices in downtown Toronto out to Glen Abbey.

So, you know, I'd always been, always been a big part of my life and of my interest in the game.

It was never just the playing of the game, although, you know, that has always been an important part of it as well.

... um, backup on this, but I tell you, these, these school teachers, and I don't know what other events they run in OFSAA, but they, they do need a little help.

They should reach out to golf, Golf Canada or-

Yeah

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We gotta get her a little more athletic-

Yeah

... because that is the mandate for Golf Ontario, Golf Canada.

Athletes first, golfers second.

It's a fine spot.

And what they do there, which is really cool, uh, and credit to Golf Canada for this, they have a place where families can go and play a version of mini golf, eighteen holes on professional-like greens.

Uh, they provide the, the putters and the balls.

Highly recommend it.

Uh, had the pleasure of playing with, uh, Liz Hoffman, who's the, was the Dick Grimm Award winner this year, and people can Google her.

She's a two-time president of, of Golf Canada, longtime, um, athletic director at, of U of T, and done everything in golf.

And, uh, Grant Fraser, uh, and Gary McCann.

Ah, yes.

We had 60-some-odd girls in a Monday night juniors league.

Golf Ontario and Golf Canada were phoning me asking us what we were doing to get that many young girls involved.

The one girl was like, my job... is and i can't believe she told me this she says my job is to get girls into golf and i'm like well how are you doing she goes kirk you have more girls on your one monday night than i have through my whole program yeah and she's like i need to know and i i told gave her a bit of a uh threw her a bit of a bone but at the same time i'm like well

you don't really want to give it away yeah

Brody Carl over at predator Ridge on the show last week.

And I asked him the same question and it was, you ever reach out to golf Canada as a potential landing spot to host the RBC Canadian open or the women's CBKC open.

We haven't reached out to to Golf Canada for that we have been in discussions with the PGA of Canada about hosting the club pro championship potentially.

I think the course could certainly handle something like that, you know, and we have the space for it and the layout.

a difficult walking course in certain instances, but certainly you could get, get around that with shuttles and things.