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St . George ’ s Golf & Country Club Accomplish Championship Standards with Jacobsen
fter two years and 1,093
A days of waiting due to the global pandemic , Golf Course and Property Manager Ian McQueen and his team finally got their chance to host the Canada ’ s major golf championship .
St . George ’ s Golf & Country Club was built in 1929 , with the course designed by famous Canadian architect Stanley Thompson .
Its city center location is hidden by trees and the undulations of the property , with fourteen elevated tees and valleys that run through every hole giving the course its natural character .
Achieving the desired firmness and ensuring every undulation of the fairways and rough are followed is down to the Jacobsen fleet of mowers . The Eclipse 2 walkers are joined by SLF530s , HR600s , AR321s , and LF1880s to provide a championship quality cut on all 7,025 yards of the course .
The world ’ s best golfers played on a course that had undergone two years of rigorous preparation led by Ian , and with the support of Jacobsen and local distributor , GC Duke , he has accomplished the standards he wanted for the world ’ s best .
“ This is our national championship in Canada . It ’ s a big event , and without
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