Golf

• Members may reserve their tee times up to six (6) days in advance either by booking online or call the Pro Shop
• Members receive preferred pricing on golf cart rentals
• Members Guests are offered 10% off their green fee rate seven days a week
• All members will receive 10% off all in stock soft and hard goods. (Please note that the members discount will not be applied to merchandise already on sale.)
• Each member will receive 10% off all menu based food items purchased in Food & Beverage
• Pre-Authorized Debit Program (for more information see below)
• Golf Professionals available for member lessons
• Club Cleaning & Storage (additional fee applies)

South Muskoka’s pre-authorized payment plan is a simple, convenient, no fee method of paying your annual dues over a 1, 2 or 12 month period of time. It’s your decision.

How does the pre-authorize payment plan work?

• For those members who would like to start contributing to next years annual dues
• Automatic debit for a specific dollar amount that you determine
• Save Money. No postage or service charges
• Save Time. No more writing cheques or trips to the bank
• Save Worry. Forget about cheques that get delayed in the mail or missing your payment due date.
• Request your pre-authoriziation debit form

The maximum age for our Intermediate members is 35. This membership costs $752 plus taxes and incidentals (storage, locker etc).

For the 2020 season we will have limited Afternoon memberships available, for $968 plus taxes. This membership allows unlimited golf 7 days a week but only after 12:00pm. Afternoon members wishing to play before noon must pay our “Guest of Member” green fee. The sole exception to this time restriction is for a tee time in the Club Championships. The membership rate includes our club activity fee, and hole in one insurance.

We have a few different types of memberships available to couples and families. A married couples membership costs 5% less than two singles. A family membership is available for two adults and one junior, with additional juniors at 30% discount to their individual rates. We also offer a “small family” membership, for one parent and one junior. Additional juniors may be added the same as in our regular family membership.

Finally, we offer a “Spousal” couples membership, for situations where only one of the couple is a truly avid golfer. In a spousal couples membership, one member has unlimited play while the other is restricted to six 9-hole and six twilight rounds in the season.

To get more information about membership, please contact Mark DeActis at 705-645-4221.

South Muskoka is an Ontario not-for-profit corporation without share capital. Individuals may purchase a voting membership in the Club. Voting membership certificates may be purchased from the Club treasury for $500 or may be transferred from an existing member, subject to payment of a transfer fee to the Club. The transfer fee is currently $55. Voting memberships are non-cumulative; an individual will have only one (1) vote, regardless of the number of voting membership certificates held in his or her name.

Adult owners of voting memberships receive discounts on both curling and golfing annual membership dues, currently $25 and $60, respectively. The original membership certificates sold for $100 in 1970.

The Mission of South Muskoka Junior Golf Program is to provide excellent instruction in golf and to develop and promote friendships and help foster a lifelong love of the game.

Further to our mission:

• To support, nurture, inspire and challenge each junior to embrace sportsmanship
• To provide a safe, relaxing and fun environment
• To provide quality and caring instructors and volunteers who will, inspire and guide each junior to maximize his/her potential

South Muskoka not only takes great pride in it’s commitment to the growth and development of our juniors, but it is our hope that young people’s participation in the junior program will provide them with the opportunity of forming new acquaintances and lasting friendships.

Our program is geared towards learning different aspects of the game, yet skill improvement, even with its obvious values, should not be the only objective in our programs. There are goals of greater value than low numbers on a scorecard that can come through a youngster’s golf experience. Providing our juniors with these programs can contribute to values while the participants are having fun, being creative, expressing imagination and improving their self-esteem.

It is the recognition of these extra special goals, and the effort expended toward achieving them, that transforms junior golf activity into a successful Junior Golf Program. South Muskoka recognizes that our future in golf must come from our youth. The Board of Directors constitutes the major force in promoting junior golf here at South Muskoka. Our program has exciting potential for personal growth and learning.

Pay your age (up to 7) per round

Bantams (7-13) – $178

Junior (14-18) – $285

South Muskoka is currently entering its 47^th year of Junior Golf Programs. It is our objective to provide each junior the skill set, not just in golf, but in their development of social skills, proper attitudes, courtesy and sportsmanship.

Every Monday we will offer our Junior Night from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. Once a month, starting in June we will be offering a junior BBQ sponsored by Jen & Alex Nelson to all participants as our way of thanking you for your commitment to South.

18 & Under Junior Programs Registration

At South Muskoka, developing players and programs is not enough—the programs should have the right motives. It is our goal to provide your child with an understanding of golf’s fundamentals, its etiquette and, of course, the pure enjoyment of the game that will last a lifetime in a friendly rewarding atmosphere. Our junior golf program has the potential to do a great deal more with our juniors than improve their golfing skills. The game of golf has exciting potential for personal growth and learning.

The backdrop for our junior golf program is the return of the Future Links driven by Acura program, which is Canada’s national junior golf development series. South is very excited to have partnered with this nationally recognized program. This national junior golf focused initiative is based on the collective efforts of the Canadian PGA, RCGA and Sport Canada with the purpose of delivering an enjoyable and educational golf program for junior players, parents and golf instructors. The program consists of multi-level instruction and provides clinics, camps, support materials and special programs to raise awareness of junior golf and addresses the issues of accessibility and affordability. It is our objective that each junior will have the opportunity to participate in this program that is specifically designed for them. The Future Links driven by Acura program is Canada’s only recognized junior development program and has fostered greater cooperation between golf’s governing bodies to promote the growth of the game from a grass roots level. We encourage each parent to visit their website at www.future-links.org.

If you are a junior interested in developing your golf game and enjoy having fun, South Muskoka in partnership with Future Links driven by Acura awaits your arrival.

Each participant will learn the different aspects of the golf swing and all clinics will take place on the putting green, driving range and on-course. Each child will learn all the fundamentals which include body, stance, posture, alignment, ball position, short irons, long game, chipping, putting, scoring, rules, safety and etiquette.

The positive experiences suggested above are objectives that do not happen automatically when a youngster picks up a club and tours the course a few times. The claims that are made about golf, or any other sport, in respect to character development are not guaranteed. We believe that positive results are a product of purposeful effort, and by using our Future Links Program and the certified instructors involved, we can provide each junior the highest quality of personal instruction.

A great deal of thought has been put into our junior programs commencing this season. Although content may change, our primary goal remains the same; and that is to promote enjoyment and interaction through new pursuits.

Continuing our strong relationships and partnerships with the Royal Canadian Golf Association and the Golf Association of Ontario, the success behind these programs would not exist. With this continued affiliation, our junior programs provide comprehensive and systematic approaches to fundamentals, skill improvement and personal development. Through the development of our professional coaching influence, combined with effective practice and of course fun, which is paramount in this process, our programs will become extremely successful and yield results.

Participating juniors will experience tremendous growth, which in turn prepares them to be the most outstanding people possible.

There is nothing more rewarding than watching a juniors development and their commitment to get better.

We encourage you to come out and give South Muskoka Junior programs a go!  You won’t regret it.

The Junior committee has been working very diligently over the winter months to create many benefits to the Club and its junior members. We have garnered new opportunities for each junior member to enjoy this season. We outline the following benefits and we encourage you to use these membership incentives:

• Junior “Road Trips”—our first “road trip” will be determined. We will work with a golf course that can offer us great value to come and visit them this season. Please watch your email and correspondence, as we will travel to another facility for hot dogs, golf and a lot fun! We are anticipating one “junior road trip” during the summer months. Dates will be determined, but look for material on the Junior bulletin board and check your emails
• Junior/Senior Tournament – Sponsored by Tim Hortons – Monday, August 3rd
  • 9 Hole Alternate Shot Format
• Junior “in-house” Tournaments for our 7 – 18 year olds
• Price Reductions at other Clubs—We are working on developing a junior member benefit at local golf facilities that offer reduced rates exclusive for our Junior Members:
  • The Rock Golf Club has offered 50% off the rack rate to play after 2:00 p.m.
  • Golf at Cleveland’s House Resort where “South Muskoka Juniors” play all day for $10.00

A key element to the program is our Junior Rounds Incentive Program. The junior committee is creating a program to promote our junior members to play GOLF! Special scorecards have been developed to track your successes and milestones on the golf course. We encourage all our Juniors to play, as the incentive program has been categorized in 10, 20 and 30 round increments. Once each level is completed, each junior will be recognized for their accomplishments. Please see the Pro Shop for more details.

Like many golf professionals, Mark started playing golf at the early age of 13. He started golfing in the summer of 1993 taking a break from his true passion of soccer. He bought a membership at the local club and has never looked back! Mark started working at Ridgetown Golf & Curling Club in the spring of 1996. He received a golf scholarship to Cleveland State University. As his passion for the game grew, he turned professional shortly thereafter and played on a variety of mini tours after his decision to leave CSU. As the Assistant Professional at Windermere Golf and Country Club for three years, he was promoted to Head Professional in 2004. This is when he turned his sights to the management side of the business. Mark became the Co-General Manager in 2008. Mark is currently going into his fifth season at South Muskoka.

Like many golf professionals, Jacklynn started playing golf at an early age. She graduated Texas A&M Corpus Christi in 2007 after receiving a 4-year golf scholarship. Jacklynn then went on to play professionally for 2 years before taking on the job as Assistant Golf Professional at North Bay Golf and Country Club. Her first professional win came in Alberta, shooting a 70, where she also became the first female thus care to have won a PGA of Alberta event with men in the field. After a brief stint of working in Alberta, where she also won the Ladies Division Order of Merit Points, she returned to Muskoka to work at Muskoka Bay Golf Club in 2015. In 2017, Jacklynn won the Stan Leonard Class A Professional of the Year and then promoted to Head Golf Professional the following year. Jacklynn loves teaching golf and growing the game with beginners and is currently in her first season at South Muskoka.