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Spotlight on Golf: Bob Winchester at the Cornwall

Golf and Country Club

By Casey Leger challenge of playing the toughest sport ever
created. Undoubtedly, trying to manage a
course in varying conditions and hitting
the ball as planned is both mentally and
physically challenging.” He says being
outdoors in good weather and playing golf
with his wife and friends tops the list of

olfing is a long and exciting adventure what appeals most to him about the sport.
Gfor Bob Winchester. “This year is my
When he talks about his club, there’s a
65th year as a member of the Cornwall Golf definite respect in Winchester’s discourse.
and Country Club,” he says, “mainly as a “The Cornwall Golf and Country Club is Photo Submitted
full playing member and, for approximately 123 years old,” he explains. “Its design dates
6 or 8 years, as a social member when our
from the mid 1930’s. The characteristics
children were young.”
of the course include small sloping greens,
He first shouldered his clubs in the strategically placed bunkers, mature trees
summer of 1954. He was five years throughout the course which add to the
old. Today, he’s on the Club’s board of complexity of iron shots… All making
directors. Depending on the weather, he the CGCC course challenging but fair,” he
manages fifty or sixty rounds a season at says.
the CGCC, and another ten or so at other When it comes to golf, Winchester is a and internationally in Scotland, Bermuda,
clubs, many of them abroad.
bit of an authority. “I have played many and Germany. I can assure anyone interested
Golf is obviously a passion for difficult golf courses in Ontario and in the game of golf that playing at the CGCC
Winchester: “I have always enjoyed the Quebec, Florida, Arizona, and California, preps you to play all types of courses.”

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