MARKHAM, Ont. — Women dressed as flappers, or in kilts with tam-o’-shanters, or carrying parasols, a few with tie-die shirts and headbands like the hippies of the 1960s, and hundreds of others got together to play golf and celebrate.
The Ladies' Golf Club of Toronto continued its 100th anniversary festivities on Saturday with a tournament around the Stanley Thompson-designed course in Thornhill, Ont., with members encouraged to wear period clothes. Margaret Auld, the chair of club's archives committee, said the event was an example of the special culture at the only golf club in North America that was created by women, for women.
Saturday's activities included an outdoor lunch, demonstrations of hickory clubs with the Golf Historical Society of Canada, and period dress. The festivities continue in July with a members dinner and a planned book of the club's 100-year history. Mackenzie settled on a swath of land between Yonge Street and Bayview Avenue in Thornhill, Ont., — now Markham — that straddled a branch of the Don River. Women couldn't buy land in Ontario at that time, so she had to pose as a married person to complete the sale.Mackenzie then enlisted famed Canadian course architect Stanley Thompson to help her design an 18-hole track that is a unique collaboration between two of the most important golf minds in Canadian history.
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