2024 Canadian Men’s Senior Championship set to tee off at Saugeen Golf Club

The 2024 Canadian Men’s Senior Championship is set to run at Saugeen Golf Club from September 12 to 15.

This highly anticipated national competition will feature 156 top amateur golfers from across the country and beyond, battling it out over four days for the John Rankin Memorial Trophy. Additionally, a Super Senior Division will see golfers aged 65 and over competing for their own honours, while the Senior Inter-Provincial Team Championship will also be contested over the first two days.

Tournament Director Daniel Suppa expressed his enthusiasm for the event.

“We are very excited to welcome an incredible and talented field of golfers set to compete for our Canadian Men’s Senior Championship this week at Saugeen Golf Club. The staff, volunteers, host committee along with the entire community have really gone to great lengths to ensure that those competing for our national championship are given an experience they won’t soon forget at Saugeen,” he said.

Saugeen Golf Club, which will celebrate its 100th anniversary next year, is steeped in history. Founded in 1925 by a group of local visionaries, the club has expanded over the years from its original nine holes, designed by famed golf architect Stanley Thompson, to its current 27-hole layout.

The Canadian Men’s Senior Championship, inaugurated in 1962, is open to golfers aged 55 and over, with the Super Senior Division for players 65 and older introduced in 1995. The tournament is a 72-hole stroke play event, with a cut after 36 holes. The inter-provincial team competition, established in 1977, will be contested during the first two rounds of play.

Practice rounds are scheduled for Wednesday, September 11, with official play beginning on Thursday, September 12. The champion will earn an exemption into the 2025 U.S. Senior Amateur Championship at Biltmore Forest Country Club in Asheville, North Carolina.

Southampton’s Ron Kerr is among at least four representatives from Saugeen Golf Club. Kerr won a two-day qualifier in August.