Course Profile
Cedar Glen Golf Course:
Country Charm, City Access
by Scott MacLeod, FGM Editorial Director
They have a simple formula, but it is still one that seems to work year after year.
Williamsburg, Ontario’s Cedar Glen Golf Course, owned and operated by Dennis and
Kathryn Casselman, just keeps chugging along like they have for 37 years and counting.
They make no apologies for being a rural golf course, The idea floated within the group for awhile, ultimately The course was a work in progress, the novice
one that is tended to lovingly by a family with nothing finding the trio acquiring the original 55 acres that the golfers did the design themselves (they received
but the best of intentions. They may not boast a front nine of their eighteen-hole facility was built on. some agronomy advice from then Morrisburg
million-dollar clubhouse or fairways that will host The land was purchased from Cliff and Agnes greens keeper Ed Casselman (no relation)) and
the next Canadian Open but in essence the course Casselman and they became very involved getting when things did not work they simply made
has a focus that really matters – it‘s all about golf the course opened. Cliff was nicknamed “The Chief” modifications. It paid off.
and the people who enjoy it. and Agnes was fondly called “The Inspector”
Despite having just one customer on opening
“We are a quiet country golf course, not the Working in their spare time, the gentlemen scraped day, (“The cash was short five dollars and green
longest by any standard but you won’t find a and cleared the land with minimal equipment. “The fees were only three,” Dennis remarks) by day
friendlier place to play. With life in the city so scope of the work was a little bit bigger than we had two they attracted almost a dozen players and
rushed people love to come here to relax,” thought,” says Dennis with a laugh. “A lot of times they kept coming.
espouses Dennis who founded the golf course we wondered what we were doing. We always
with his brother Ron and Uncle Rex Whitaker. refer to it as temporary insanity.” The early membership consisted mostly of locals
but eventually the reputation for the operation grew
Dennis and Kathryn did not set out to be golf course With the help of friends and family (and just about and customers began to come from further afield.
owners. In 1964 Dennis was working at DuPont in anyone old enough who could wield a shovel, says “There weren’t as many options as there are now;
Maitland. He had taken up golf a year or so prior, Dennis) the nine hole course opened in 1972. That we had reasonable rates and once people
playing at local standards like the Morrisburg and year they were joined by another partner Steven discovered that we were not really that far away
Iroquois golf clubs. His brother and uncle Morrow, who tragically lost his life in 1996. despite being in the country, we really started to go.
approached him with the idea of starting a golf course.
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