The Canadian Golf Hall of Fame is dedicated to the recognition of extraordinary contributions and accomplishments in the game of golf in Canada. Sixty-two honoured members including amateur and professional golfers and builders of the sport have been inducted on a regular basis since the inception of the Hall of Fame in 1971. Weir will become the 63rd member when he is formally inducted to the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame on November 28 from his hometown of Bright's Grove, ON.

“It’s been a great exhibit for us,” says Karen Hewson, Director of the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame and Museum. “We usually see about 5,000 visitors a year, but with the Canadian Open at Glen Abbey and the “Mementos from a Champion” exhibit we have seen a significant spike in traffic. I’m pleased to say that we have extended the length of the exhibit through the end of November.”

Visitors to the Hall of Fame can visit the Trophy Room, which is home to the RBC Canadian Open Trophy and its three predecessors as well as charcoal sketches and short biographies on all 62 Hall of Fame members. The hall also includes a “Clubhouse Lounge” and an 18-hole walking tour highlighting everything you can imagine in Canadian golf from champions and championships to the evolution of equipment and golf course architecture. A permanent, putting surface where visitors can test old putters and balls is part of the experience.  As well, an area to swing golf clubs from different eras dating back to the 18th Century allow people to see and feel how golf clubs have evolved over the decades.

Highlights of the collection include the 1904 Olympic Games Trophy from the last time golf was played in the Olympics and won by George S. Lyon of Toronto. Considering the IOC will be voting this fall on whether or not to include golf in the 2016 Olympics it’s a unique piece of golf history. “When I started here it was a one-room museum in Golf House, an uncatalogued library and really no archive at all, so it has been a great experience developing all of those things,” Hewson says.

The Canadian Golf Hall of Fame, Museum, Library & Archives is the primary research facility for golf in Canada. It houses 3,700 library books, 300 linear feet of reference materials including rare volumes and periodicals, 850 linear feet of RCGA corporate records and other archival materials, 165 linear feet of photographs, audio and video tape, 13500 artifacts including a collection of more than 1,000 golf balls including two rare feather balls, the evolution of the Gutta Percha Ball, feathery era long nose clubs and 1800s early irons. One of the most recent additions to the collection comes from Hall of Fame member Sandra Post and Hewson is already considering a special display of those items.