Royal Montreal Golf Club

The Royal Montreal Golf Club is the oldest golf club in the America's, having been founded in 1873. In that year, a small group of eight gentlemen sat in a dockside office and formed the Montreal Golf Club. Eleven years later, in 1884, permission was granted by Queen Victoria to use the "Royal" prefix.

The first golf course was a 9-hole layout on Fletcher's Field, part of Mount Royal Park, which was shared by the red-coated golfers and other citizens relaxing in what was then the outskirts of Montreal.

In 1896, the club moved to Dixie, in the parish of Dorval, where it remained until the pressures of urban growth again dictated a decision to move. The clubhouse at Dixie is now the Queen of Angels Academy for Girls.

The last move was to Île-Bizard, Quebec in 1959, where 45 holes were constructed by American golf course architect Dick Wilson. ["The World Atlas of Golf".] The Blue Course continues to be ranked as one of the "100 Greatest Courses in the World".

Royal Montreal was one of the five founding Clubs of the Royal Canadian Golf Association, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1995. The RCGA is the governing body of golf in Canada and organizes the major national championships, including the Canadian Open, the first of which was played at Royal Montreal in 1904.

In September 2007, Royal Montreal hosted The Presidents Cup; an event which enables the World's best non-European players to compete in an international team match play competition against the Top 12 PGA TOUR players in the United States.

ee also

*List of Canadian organizations with royal patronage

References

External links

* [http://www.rmgc.org Royal Montreal Golf Club]
* [http://scoregolf.com/rankings/top100/top-100-golf-courses-in-canada-2006.cfm Course rankings]