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More visitors, good weather gives golf course a successful season
Seven Springs Golf Club membership numbers on par with last year

Jeanne Gagnon
Northern News Services
Published Thursday, October 3, 2013

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Great weather, more tourists golfing and a membership consistent with last year's at the Seven Spruce Golf Club translated into a successful season, said the club president.

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Chris Hewitt, right, putted on hole nine at the Seven Spruce Golf Course during a tournament last month while his teammate Brian Desjardins kept a close watch on its progress. The club had a successful year, according to its president. - NNSL file photo

Fort Simpson's nine-hole golf course attracted about the same number of members as last year, but more tourists went golfing as the course was more consistently staffed, said club president Shane Thompson.

"We had an influx of more students this year than we did last year, but overall, our membership stayed about the same," he said.

And Mother Nature co-operated, with Thompson saying that the weather was good and consistent without a long spell of rain where it would be too wet for people to go out golfing.

Some work was done to improve the course, such as new sod and seeded grass on all nine holes, said Thompson.

Some of the highlights of the season include mere centimetres deciding the women's title at the First Air Open golf tournament on Sept. 7. Scott McIntosh shot the second ever verified hole-in-one on the course during the Canadian Zinc Open tournament in May. The first was made by Kelley Andrews-Klein on the same hole, hole two, during a tournament in 2009.

For next season, the club will work on areas past the greens and aprons and perhaps purchase another fairway mower, said Thompson.

"If we have the same consistency as we had this year, it will be a successful season," he said.

This season ran from May 18 to Oct. 2 with the last event, the Sneeze and Freeze on Sept. 28, which attracted 36 golfers this year, said Thompson.

"That was a huge increase from the previous year," he said.

The Opening Day tournament on May 25 had attracted about 39 golfers.

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