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Spotlight on Golf:

Tom Thompson at Upper Canada Golf Course

By Staff Writer For Thompson, golf is almost a form
of therapy. He enjoys the time outdoors
in what he describes as the club’s park-
like setting. “It is you against the golf
course, with strict rules and an absolute
measurement: your day’s score versus
your handicap or previous best score,”
om Thompson has been a member at he says. “You always want to improve;
Tthe Upper Canada Golf Course since from your total score to a single shot on a
the early ‘70s and a full-time member specific hole that gives you trouble.”
for the past 25 years. “I have served as
club captain for many of those years in When it comes to good times and
organizing tournaments, intersectional good memories, Thompson has much to
teams, and our year end tournament,” says talk about. “The best round I have had
Thompson. “The year end is a tribute to is a 69—3 under par—at Upper Canada.
my father who was head marshal at the This and playing on the Intersectional
club for many years. The Jim Thompson Teams over the years are my favourite
Memorial Tournament has been running memories,” he says. “We do not have a
for twenty years, since his death in 1999.” huge membership, but those members
we have are true friends of the club, have
Thompson, who spent 46 years at CN been there many years, and appreciate
and retired in 2009 as a vice president— both the condition of the club grounds and
after starting as a switchman — plays four the challenge of the course layout. Upper
rounds a week to an 8-9 handicap at Upper Canada and golf are my summer-time Photo Submitted
Canada. “The best thing about our club, dream, my adult Disneyland and nature
and why I play there, is the test of golf it park refuge, and I enjoy it fully.”
presents,” Thompson says. “It is truly a
championship course, not up and down When he’s not on the links, Thompson
a meadow. It has mature forest, lots of plays duplicate bridge and snooker, fishes
water and is rather unique in design in that off his boat, and serves as the president of
the back nine encircles the front nine.” the St. Vincent de Paul Society.

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