Part of Ontario’s first phase of reopening began over the weekend with golf courses and marinas. “Packed to the gills, every tee time was gone,” said Bob Perkins, owner of Oshawa Airport Golf Club.
Perkins has been running the Oshawa Airport Golf Club for 28 years, and he says this is by far the latest he’s opened. “I was prepared to open on the 25th of March and they closed everything down the 24th,” said Perkins.
In keeping with physical distancing, tee times have been spread out, cups are upside down so nobody touches the flag or has to get their ball out of the holes, and no bunker rakes — the list goes on.
Besides a couple of bumps over the weekend, Perkins is impressed with how well it went. “People just wanted to get out and they