Club Treed Environment

The objective of the Project is to enhance the Club's treed environment through the planning, purchasing and planting of trees. Contributing to the beauty and challenge of the course are the many fine trees growing on the property. The Derecho of 2022 destroyed over 1100 trees and global warming is likely to produce future storms that will further damage the Club's treed environment as the 2023 ice storm demonstrated. In 2022, the Club spent $25K on new tree purchases and the need for new tree planting will continue well into the foreseeable future. It is important to emphasize that this is a capital project, one that does not support operational activities like tree pruning and tree removal.

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First, trees shape the holes and often require the player to be very strategic on where he or she aims to hit their golf shot. Some trees are so important to the hole design that they have names. For example, on one of our holes, the site of seven white pines are so critical to how the hole is played that we have called them "The Seven Sisters". Another example is the upcoming playing of the Masters where a tall tree on the seventeenth hole at Augusta National is called the Eisenhower tree. It is so key to the play of that hole such that, when it was destroyed during an ice storm, the Club immediately replaced it a great cost.

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All Club members and guests will benefit as will the communities neighboring the Club. Further, trees remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and release oxygen, thus helping to fight global warming and provide a cleaner, healthier climate. The Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club periodically host Provincial and National Level Golf Events. An example would be the CP Women's Open held in 2022. The event raised $2M for local charity and provided Ottawa with worldwide exposure on National TV and the Golf Channel. This exposure would promote golf for young women from the grassroot to the elite level.

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