The 2020 Annual Golf Tournament will be
held on Sat., 11 July, 2020.However, this year, the tournament has been
moved to a new and exciting location, the Lebovic
Golf Club located at 14020 Leslie
Street, Aurora, about 700 m. north of Bloomington Rd. and about 1.5 km.
west of Hwy 404.This club is not a
public or community owned club, nor is it a club organisation with memberships,
but is a private club where play is by invitation only or by participation in a
charity event.
About
the Club
The club was opened in May 2016 and was
ranked by Golf Digest as the 3rd best new golf course of that year.It is an 18-hole championship golf course
designed by world renowned course architect Doug Carrick, with a par 70 layout
set upon 150 acres of rolling hills on the Oak Ridges Moraine in Aurora. With
breathtaking view and natural beauty, the course challenges both the expert
player and novice alike.The following
is a review taken from On The Tee
on-line golf magazine.
“Carrick
creatively used the land he had to shape a solid test mixing a nice combination
of length and precision, elevation changes and forced carries in the
design.The yardage may not seem
lengthy, since the par is only a 70, however don't get fooled thinking the course
is a push over.Generous fairways make
the design friendly off the tee, while the approaches are considerably more
demanding than the tee shots.The slick
and deceptive green complexes are the prime defense of the round.
“York
Region is filled with a wide range of terrific golf experiences.A vast collection of the region's public play
courses and nationally recognized private enclaves is centered along the
glacial deposits of the Oak Ridges Moraine.Lebovic is a fine addition to this collection, featuring a strong series
of windswept holes and a solid collection of holes surrounded by beautiful
trees and routed around pods and wetlands.A fun test of all aspects of your game, this new kid on the
golfing block will most likely be remembered for having some of the slickest
greens you will find anywhere.”
Who
owns this club?
The club is owned by Lebovic Enterprises Ltd. (1953), a building
and development company which was established by brothers Joseph and Wolf
Lebovic, Czech natives who survived the Holocaust and made their way to Canada
in 1949.This business became a great
success, making a significant and extraordinary impact on the design and
construction of new homes and buildings in the City of Toronto and the Province
of Ontario.
Joseph
became the human face of the company and was a member of several Boards of
Directors.He has received many awards
and acknowledgements and, in 2013, received the prestigious BILD Lifetime
Achievement Award, and served as the national and provincial President of the
Urban Development Institute and also on its Board of Directors for over 20
years.
In early 2019, Joseph and Wolf Lebovic each
received the Order of Canada medal for their contributions and successes in
helping to build a better Canada.
Why
move to this club?
The brothers felt extremely grateful to
Canada for accepting them and allowing them the opportunity to become very
successful through their hard and honest work.They believe that they now should give back to the country which had
adopted them.Having already provided
for their families, they have established a charitable foundation, The Joseph
Lebovic Charitable Foundation, which has donated to many charities and
not-for-profit organisations.
The Foundation encourages its donees in
their fund-raising efforts and participates with them in their efforts.For a donee using a golf tournament in its
efforts, it invites the organisation to play at the Lebovic Golf course and
provides a charitable donation to defray the costs of using the course.
The following is a list of some of the
charities which have taken advantage of this offer.
Amici
Camping Charity
Arthritis
Society
B’nai
Brith of Canada Foundation
Bridge
to Health
The
Canadian Hearing Society
Canadian
Junior Golf Association
Colorectal
Canada
Community
Hebrew Academy of Toronto
Diabetes
Hope Foundation
Jewish
National Fund, Canada
McMaster
University
St.
Andrew’s College
Southlake
Regional Health Centre Foundation
Special
Olympics Ontario
Temple
Sinai Congregation of Toronto
Toronto
General & Western Hospital Foundation
Toronto
SickKids Foundation
Women’s
College Hospital Foundation
It is not easy to obtain an invitation to
play at this club.Fortunately, one of
the members of our Golf Sub-committee was invited to play in a charity
tournament there and was impressed with what had been offered by the club.He was able to obtain the contact information
of the management of the club and arranged a meeting.Unfortunately, every playable week-end of the
year had already been reserved for other charities which tended to repeat every
year.He asked that we be put on a
wait-list and be contacted if and when an opening occurred.
In the summer of this year (2019), an
opening was made available starting in 2020, and we were invited to take this
place.
The
benefits to our Alumni Society
After accepting the invitation to play in
2020, the Foundation made a very sizeable donation to our Society to defray
most of the cost of playing at the club.This cost includes HST, and about 70% of this can be reclaimed from the
government since the Society is a registered Canadian charity.When we consider the part of the
participation fees which will not be used for expenses, the Society should be
able to raise its income from this event to two or three times what it has
experienced on the past years.
There also are benefits to the golf
participant, more than received at any previous club.In addition to the usual access to the
changing rooms and golf carts, the club provides the following.
-a
FULL breakfast
-a
large buffet lunch
-3
free tickets for drinks (available at 3 holes on the course or in the club
house)
-3
holes on the course where various types of snacks (sliders, finger food, etc.)
will be available
Result
of change in venue
With the benefits being offered by the
club, the cost of playing at the club has been assessed at a market price of
$300.However, this price is more than
double that which the Society has been charging, and the Society does not
consider it fair suddenly to raise the price to this level.Therefore, the price for the 2020 tournament
has been set at $150, an increase of $25 which surely covers the cost of the
extras if these had been purchased separately at any other club.
We shall be sending out the formal notice
and registration form at a later date but, in the meanwhile, we ask you to keep
this date open for playing in our tournament.We invite you to register and participate so that we can continue to
help the College in Guyana to create a suitable environment for the education
of the children in current and future attendance at the school.
Members of the SSCAAT Executive (From Left to Right): Renuka Persaud Rene Bayley, Paul Camacho, Des Jardine, Akisha Somrah. Jimmy Fung, Savi Seenauth, Tyrone De Abreu, Andrew Insanally, Malcolm Barrington, Art Veerasammy, Amanda King, Marcelline Ramcharan
Members of the SSC(G)AS Executive (From Left to Right): Godfrey Whyte, Savi Seenauth, Jimmy Fung, Rene Bayley, Wilfred Carr, Rupert De Castro, Paul Abdool, Des Jardine, Andrew Insanally, Vibert Lampkin
Players of the women’s champion team Saints are all smiles following their league triumph.
GCC The Sequal and Saints clinched this year’s Guyana Hockey Board (GHB), Bounty Paper Towel-Quicker Picker Upper second-division hockey league titles on Saturday at the Saint Stanislaus College Ground.
The Sequal secured a 5-0 win over SHC Savages on the back of braces from Alan Fernandes and Devin Hooper to remain at the top of the points table thereby clinching the title while Saints played to a nil-all draw against GBTI GCC Spice which also saw them finishing as points leaders in the women’s division
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