St. Charles Country Club is a privatecountry club inWinnipeg,Manitoba. It features three 9-holegolf courses, each with a distinct style that reflects thegolf course designer responsible for it.
The original 18-hole course was opened in 1904, but three legendary golf course designers are responsible for the current 27 holes. In 1919,Donald Ross rebuilt the course and created the two nines that now comprise the South and West nines.[1]Alister MacKenzie was then hired to create an additional nine holes and designed the North nine, which opened in 1931.[2] In 1954, Canada's Norman Woods was responsible for the renovation and redesign of the West nine.[3] The North, West and South Nines were renamed the MacKenzie, Woods, and Ross nines, respectively, in honour of the designer responsible for each nine following the club's centennial celebrations in 2004.
The course has played host toLPGA,Senior PGA andShell's Wonderful World of Golf events. The club hosted the 1952Canadian Open, aPGA Tour tournament, which was won byJohnny Palmer, and the 1992du Maurier Classic, an LPGA major, which was won bySherri Steinhauer.
In August 2010, the club hosted the LPGA'sCanadian Women's Open, won byMichelle Wie; the MacKenzie (North) nine was used as the front nine, and the Ross (South) nine was used as the back nine.[4]
Jeffry Hall Brock, the founder of the largest publicly traded company based in WinnipegGreat-West Lifeco, was one of the club's founding members. Since then, St. Charles has enjoyed a reputation of being the elite private club in the city of Winnipeg.[5]
Longtime Head Chef Takashi "Tony" Murakami is widely known as one of the top chefs in the country and was captain and a member of the Canadian national culinary team for ten years, including Canada's world championship team in 1984, later serving as team coach.[6] He has been named a member of theOrder of Canada.[7]
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