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Seasons Greetings from The Staff and Management at Summerheights.

May your New Year be filled with "BIRDIES"

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As an added benefit to our valued golfers, we have partnered with the RCGA golfer reward program to give you a FREE ROUND each time you play our course 5 times.

And there’s more! RCGA members also get to redeem their AIR MILES® reward miles for free golf at our course and more than 110 other popular courses across Ontario any time you choose. Chances are that wherever you travel in Ontario there is a RCGA course nearby. For a full listing of SKINS courses please visit www.rcga.org

As a New RCGA Golf Card member we'll give you a 1/2 PRICE GREEN FEE voucher for your next round of golf, plus a free EAGLE to the first EAGLE you earn. That means you are only 3 rounds away from a free round.

RCGA memberships are available in our pro shop for only $24.95. For more information you can also visit www.rcga.org

The sold out Summerheights Golf Day was fantastic! Over 200 golfers took place to help support the “Our Hospital, Our Future” campaign. Our goal is to raise $100,000.00 for this most worthwhile cause over the next five years. To read more about the Golf Day, and see some photos, click on the following link:

• Photos from the Golf Day

From left to right - Kathy and Rory MacLennan, Jean MacLennan, Tom Wallace (Golf Committee Chair), Dwayne MacLennan, Jill Slaney and Bob Craig (Our Hospital, Our Future Campaign Treasurer).

SUMMERHEIGHTS TO OPEN THE GREENS FOR “OUR HOSPITAL, OUR FUTURE” CAMPAIGN

Summerheights Golf Links will hold an annual charity tournament to raise $100,000 over the next five years for the “Our Hospital, Our Future” fundraising campaign.

Our Hospital, Our Future is the Cornwall Community Hospital Foundation’s fundraising campaign to raise $10 million, which is the public share of the cost to redevelop the new Cornwall hospital McConnell site.

“We have been talking for five years now about picking a non-profit organization to raise funds for,” explains Summerheights founder Dwayne MacLennan, “because so many organizations had supported us. We finally thought that the right choice would be the hospital redevelopment project as this hospital touches everybody. We have been 44 years in this community,” he adds, “and it feels really good to give back.”

MacLennan began construction in 1961 and opened Summerheights in July of 1962 on what had been his cattle farm. “I got tired of chasing my cows off neighbouring farms,” he smiles, “so my wife Jean suggested I turn the land into a golf course. We opened with nine holes and today offer 36.”

Last year, Summerheights was awarded Member of the Year by the National Golf Course Owners Association. In 2003, Dwayne MacLennan received the Lifetime Business Achievement Award from the Cornwall Chamber of Commerce, to add to the 1996 Small Business Award. Although Dwayne is still actively involved with the golf club, son Rory and wife Kathy now manage the day-to-day operations of Summerheights Golf Links.

“We’re happy to get involved with the hospital project,” says Rory. “The Cornwall Community Hospital stretches far beyond Cornwall itself, serving so many other communities such as Martintown, Lancaster and beyond. The tournament registration money will go 100% to the hospital fundraising campaign.”

Tom Wallace, Chair of the Golf Day Committee, is looking forward to working on the event.

“I have been involved with Summerheights since 1971 and have known the MacLennan family for a number of years,” he says. “This is certainly a project that I am very glad to take on. I didn’t even have to think twice about it when asked to be the chair. A committee was easily rounded up to help the hospital for what will be a fun event, a great golf day.”

Our Hospital, Our Future Campaign Treasurer Bob Craig praised Summerheights for its community support.

“The MacLennan family has generously demonstrated a huge commitment to the community and the hospital redevelopment project both financially and through their personal efforts,” Craig states, adding, “Thanks to the MacLennan family contribution and the Summerheights golf committee chaired by Tom Wallace, I have no doubt that the hospital golf tournaments planned will be a great success and a lot of fun.”

The Our Hospital, Our Future Campaign currently stands at the halfway mark of $5 million. When the gifts from the City of Cornwall and the United Counties of SD&G are included, the total exceeds $16 million to date, which is 70% of the $22.8 million required from the community for the hospital redevelopment.

For more information on the campaign, click on the following link:

• Our Hospital, Our Future

Summerheights Golf Links was awarded the Member of the Year award by the National Golf Course Owners Association on Wednesday, December 15, 2004. Summerheights is honoured to have been bestowed such a prestige award by their peers. Many thanks to the NGOCA for thier acknowledgement.

Saturday, February 22, 2003 at the Annual Cornwall Chamber of Commerence Banquet and Awards Ceremony, Dwayne MacLennan, who founded Summerheights Golf Links Ltd., was awarded the Lifetime Business Achievement Award.

More than 40 years ago, Dwayne tired of chasing his cattle off neighbouring properties.

As he wondered what he was going to do about this, his wife, Jean, had an idea. Why not stop raising cattle and turn the 100 acre farm into a golf course?

At first, said MacLennan, some people joked he was wasting a good farm by turning it into a golf course. “It was a good farm,’’ MacLennan recalled with a laugh. But little by little he worked at it, starting with nine holes on the 100 acres that were once cow pastures, until it now is a thriving business that his son, Rory, now manages.

The course opened in 1961 with green fees going for $1 during the week and $1.50 on the weekend.

“When we had 20 green fees in a day that seemed pretty good,’’ recalled MacLennan.

But MacLennan isn’t the retiring type.

“I still go there every day, unless there is good fishing,’’ he said with a smile. “I couldn’t do anything else.’’

Dwayne would like to thank the community and surrounding areas for their support for the past 40 years.

The August 2001 issue of Flagstick Magazine features our very own Summerheights Golf Links as the feature course of the month. Flagstick staff rated the club highly for offering a challenging yet friendly environment for golfers of all abilities:

"When you do visit Summerheights Golf Links, expect to find a true example of a quality public golf facility where visitors always feel welcome."

Pick up your free copy at the Proshop. The Summerheights profile can be found on pages 68 - 70. Or read it online at www.Flagstick.com.

The MacLennan Family would like to thank Flagstick Magazine for the wonderful article on Summerheights.

A full colour brochure outlining the features of Summerheights Golf Links is now available.

This attractive brochure will be distributed by Cornwall and Seaway Valley Tourism this summer at various Visitor Information Kiosks and trade shows.

If you would like a copy of the brochure, please drop us a note via the Contact Us page.