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Heritage Site

Donald Ross

Roseland Golf Course is a designated Ontario Heritage Site. In 1926 Harry Neal hired famous architect Donald Ross to design the course. Ross served an apprenticeship with Old Tom Morris in St Andrews before investing his life savings in a trip to the U.S. in 1899 at the suggestion of a Harvard professor named Robert Wilson who found him his first job in America at Oakley Country Club in Watertown, Massachusetts. In 1900, he was appointed as the golf professional at the Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina where he began his course design career and eventually designed over four hundred courses.  At its height, Donald J. Ross and Associates, as his practice was known, oversaw the work of thousands of people.