N.S. golf club members rally to maintain links amid ownership uncertainty
ANNAPOLIS ROYAL, N.S. — The ownership of a Nova Scotia golf club appears in limbo, but members of the facility said they’re pulling together to keep the 18 hole course running until its fate becomes clear.
Sid Young, course superintendent at the Annapolis Royal Golf and Country Club, said he was shocked to find a letter from owners Harry and Jacqui Shepherd last week thanking him for his volunteer service.
“It didn’t take rocket science to read between the lines that they weren’t coming back,” Young said in an interview Saturday. “I can only speculate, like most people, that at some point in they saw the end was near and they decided to leave.”
Young said he believes the Shepherds walked away from their business of 12 years to return to the United Kingdom, potentially putting about six staff members out of work.