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Seaforth's Ken Doig
Makes Willingdon Team
BRUSSELS KIDS ENJOY SWIMMING LESSONS — Every morning the Brussels
Lions Club brings a bus load of local kids to the Seaforth Lions Pool for swimming
lessons. Here swimming teacher and lifeguard Joe McLean gives a helping hand to
Chris Langlois who is treading water as swimming classmates watch.
(Photo.by Pat Langlois)
going to put together an Old
Timers hockey team and play
some exhibition games this
winter, Ken says.
Ken says lie has no intention of
becoming a professional golfer.
`When your pleasure becomes
your work, what do you do for
pleasure?' he asks. `No, I get a
good living from my window
business and it gives me time to
play golf.'
Ken's son-in-law Bill Price has
recently joined. him in the
business and Ken says he hopes
to get a bit more time off to play
golf.
SWINGING A DOOR Swinging a glass door off his
truck instead of swin9ing a golf club is a change for
Ken Doig. The Seaforth amateur golfer is having a
terrific year, coming third in the Ontario Amateur
and being named one of the four Ontario golfers to
represent the province in Willingdon Cup play in.
Winnipeg. (Staff Photo)
A left handed man who plays
an excellent right handed game of
golf, Seaforth's own Ken Doig is
now ranked among the top golfers
in Ontario with his win, Monday.
of a place on Ontario's Willingdon
Cup Team. Ken was the first
golfer chosen for the team after
automatic placer Gary Cowan who
won last week's Ontario Amateur
Championship. The Seaforth
golfer who was ahead in some of
the championship play, placed
third in the Amateur.
The Willingdon Cup is an
interprovincial tournament, held
in Winnipeg beginning on August
19. Ken Doig, co-owner with his
brother Rod of the Seaforth Golf
and Country Club has tried for the
team before, 'I was first alternate
one year,' he says, but Monday's
win is part of a current success
streak.
Ken won the Idlewylde Invita-
tional tournament in Sudbury last
weekend, the Stratford Invita-
tional in June and placed third
behind Cowan and other Willing-
don Cup team member Kelly
Roberts in the Ontario Amateur
championships on Friday. Bruce
Brewer of Toronto is the team's
fourth member.
Doig, 46, has been plugging
away on the Ontario Amateur golf
circuit since he came back to his
native Seaforth in 1956 after ten
years of playing professional
hockey in Scotland and Switzer-
land. 'They call me the balding
veteran', Ken says with a grin.
One Sudbury fan presented him
with a bottle of Solarcaine for his
bare sunburnt head he says.
He says he's happy about his
current run of successes 'but it's day. He played at the King lames
not going to throw me overboard. VI course in Perth, an island
You can't Stay up on a peak course in the Tay River, 'Every forever.
Luck has something to do with
it, Ken says. 'Sure it does. You
can call a shot wrong and still sink
it when you're lucky. Over the
long haul, though, a good player
inakeS his own hick'.
like Lee Trevni&s saying
'The more I practise, the luckier I get., , f
There has been lots Of practise
in Ken DOig'S golfing background
altlioUgli he says '1 don't practise
4,-THE isn't SAHLs Vogt ate. On
morning I'd have the place all to
myself', he says.
There was no golf course in
Seaforth when Ken left for
Scotland right after the war and
there perhapS wouldn't be one
now if he hadn't come back from
Scotland an expert golfer. The
Doig course in Tuckersmith has
nine holes and another nine will
be added when approval is
granted for a housing subdivision
overlooking the course.
Good golfing now runs in the
Doig family. Brother Rod, pro at
the course, won the Legion Zone
Tournament in Kincardine
Sunday when he shot 74. 'Rod's a
good golfer, he helped me stop .
slicing the ball,' Ken says.
Young Cam Doig, who has
recently been replaced by his
younger brother Ian as his
father's caddy, is a three handi-
cap and will play this weekend
with Stevie Bennett of Seaforth in
the JUnior Best Ball tournament
in Aurora. Steve, incidentally,
tied Ken's record with a nine
under par 63 at the Seaforth
course just last weekend.
On a ten foot put to beat the
record, Steve was one inch short'
of the hole Ken says. Ian Doig,
13, has qualified for the Ontario
,Bantam tournament.
Ken's wife Mary is also having
a good year at golf. Playing in a
Legion mixed 2 ball tournament
two weeks ago, she and her
partner beat Ken and his partner.
Ken is a longtime Seaforth
Beavers hockey player, found he
wasn't in as good shape as usual
this spring after the first winter of
not playing hockey in many years.
'I think have to take up
running', he says.
A group of former Beavers is
much now because i don't have
the time.' He gets a fair bit of
tournament play, (he's at the
Highland Invitational in London
this weekend) though and hits
balls whenever he gets a chance.
Ken is a natural athelete who
started seriously playing right-
handed golf when he was 21 and
in Scotland. As he had played for
about a year left-handed, the way
he shoots a hockey stick and does
everything when his coach Joe
Anderson of Perth told him 'if you
ever want to be really good,
you'll have to play golf right
handed.
`So I went right out and bought
a set of right handed clubs and
learned everything all over again'
Ken says. Within a year he had a
1 handicap. It was several months
after he started lessons with Joe
Anderson before he got out on a
golf course. 'I hit balls at a net
with a mirror in front of me from
October to February,' he says.
Watching his swing in the
mirror meant that Ken could get
his grip and stance down per-
fectly, the key to good golfing, he
says.
He says you can draw the
proper foot positions on a mat and
practise swinging with them in
that position: 'Pretty soon that's
the only way that you'll feel
comfortable when you golf: Ken
thinks the new video play-backs
that let a golfer see himself in
action art wonderful for getting
this down pats
l-Iitting a lot of balls is Doig's
next suggestion for the budding
golfer: In his first yearof,playitig •
in Scotland; he hit 1,000 balls a
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