Golf Ontario announced the 2023 inductees to the Ontario Golf Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony will take place at Wooden Sticks Golf Club in Uxbridge, Ontario on May 2nd. Mckay is being inducted into the Builder Category.
Builder Category
Garry McKay
Garry has been covering golf for The Hamilton Spectator since the mid 1970s and covered his first Canadian Open for Radio station CKOC in 1968.
He has also written articles for Pro Shop Magazine, Golf Canada, Ontario Golf, Hamilton Golf, Score and for magazines in the United States and Germany.
He has served on the selection committee of the World Golf Hall of Fame, Canadian Golf Hall of Fame, PGA of Canada Hall of Fame, and Ontario Golf Hall of Fame.
He was a founding director of the Hamilton Halton Junior Golf Tour which began in 1984. He is currently on the board and works events doing, registration, scoring, spotting and even rules.
He was a founding director and currently sits on the board and is treasurer of the Golden Horseshoe Athlete of the Year award which choses the Athlete of the Year for the Hamilton-Halton area.
He was a founding director and is currently the chair of the Hamilton Sports Hall of Fame.
He was a past director of the Stanley Thompson Society and previously sat on Golf Canada’s Heritage Committee.
Garry was a founding director, a past president and past secretary/treasurer of the Golf Journalists Association of Canada and is currently on the board as an advisor.
In 2015 Garry was honoured with the Lorne Rubenstein Award by the Ontario Golf Hall of Fame.
He won the American Hockey League’s James H. Ellery Memorial Award for media coverage of the Hamilton Bulldogs in 2001-2002.
He won a Score award for golf coverage in 1981.
Garry is also a three-time winner of Gymnastics Ontario’s media award for coverage of gymnastics.
The Golf Journalists Association of Canada gave him their 2021 Dick Grimm Award for ‘significant lifetime achievements to Canadian Golf.’
Garry was also a recipient of Golf Canada’s Distinguished Service Award in 2022.
And his golf game has never improved.
Other award winners include: Bob Beauchemin, Audrey Bendick-Akins and Rick Young
