Shelburne Golf & Country Club is owned and operated by Sam Young, a member of the Professional Golfer’s Association of Canada since 1961. Sam served on the board of the Ontario PGA from 1973 – 1984 and on the board of the Canadian PGA from 1974 – 1990. He has served a president of both associations.
Sam had an extensive playing career in the sixties and seventies and has turned his playing and learning experience into the successful teaching method he uses today. He has introduced thousands of golfers to the game and has taught at every level, including a number of years with the Ontario Ladies’ and Men’s Junior Advanced Instructional Camps.
After receiving the 1986 Ontario and the 1989 Canadian Professional Golfers’ Association and Score Magazine’s Club Professional of the Year Award, Sam used his years of experience to design and build a new nine holes and renovate the existing nine holes to fashion an exciting, well-conditioned and challenging eighteen-hole layout.
In 1998, he designed and built a premier driving range and practice facility to complement the new 18-hole course. Sam continues to enhance the course by providing greater challenges for today’s longer hitters and improving the overall condition and playability of the course.
In 2002 and again in 2003, Sam received the Ontario PGA Teacher of the Year Award for Junior Golfers and in 2002 the Canadian PGA awarded Sam the Canadian Junior Leader of the Year Award.
