The Cobourg Golf Club is older than you think. In 1897, the Toronto Globe published the following item: Messrs. W.J. Crossen, S.D. Cornell and others have been incorporated as the Cobourg Golf Club, Limited" (4 October 1897, p. 10). In those days, a golf club's incorporation usually followed several years of existence as an unincorporated golf club. Incorporation was a legal procedure to allow the club to buy property, etc. Sure enough, we discover that the Cobourg Golf Club had been organized by at least 1895, for in August of that year it invited the Ottawa Golf Club head pro, Alfred Ricketts, to visit Cobourg and instruct club members in the art of the golf swing: : “Ricketts spent one week in Coburgh [sic] coaching the players there, but there is no truth in the rumor that he will stay there” (Ottawa Journal, 5 September 1895, p. 6). By 1895, the Cobourg Golf Club was sufficiently well-established to make the Ottawa Golf Club fear that it was trying to hire away its golf professional.
The Cobourg Golf Club is older than you think. In 1897, the Toronto Globe published the following item: Messrs. W.J. Crossen, S.D. Cornell and others have been incorporated as the Cobourg Golf Club, Limited" (4 October 1897, p. 10). In those days, a golf club's incorporation usually followed several years of existence as an unincorporated golf club. Incorporation was a legal procedure to allow the club to buy property, etc. Sure enough, we discover that the Cobourg Golf Club had been organized by at least 1895, for in August of that year it invited the Ottawa Golf Club head pro, Alfred Ricketts, to visit Cobourg and instruct club members in the art of the golf swing: : “Ricketts spent one week in Coburgh [sic] coaching the players there, but there is no truth in the rumor that he will stay there” (Ottawa Journal, 5 September 1895, p. 6). By 1895, the Cobourg Golf Club was sufficiently well-established to make the Ottawa Golf Club fear that it was trying to hire away its golf professional.