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Goal : Introduce Junior Golfers to the game of golf. Educate them on safety, courtesy, and expected behaviors inherent in the game and at golf facilities. Introduce basic fundamentals, terminology, and skills required to make golf an enjoyable activity. Create an environment of learning that is both fun and memorable. The Tokatee Golf Club Junior Golf Program is designed for the young beginner. We provide an atmosphere that will be beneficial to all parents and participants.

N.B. (Nat) Giustina, a lumberman from Eugene, became interested in golf in his early 40s. After becoming a "golf nut" he began to look around the McKenzie River Valley for a piece of property he could build a nine-hole course on. Often on his way up to his cabin in the McKenzie Bridge area he would turn off the highway onto Mill Creek Road (Fox Farm Road) so he could get a view of the Three Sisters mountains. From Mill Creek Rd. one could look across an open field (area west of #3 and #4 holes) and view the mountains. This open area was used in the early days for an overnight stop by travelers, including Native Americans, on their travels between Eastern Oregon and the Willamette Valley. In 1962, Nat Giustina bought the Belknap Ranch as the future site for his golf course. The western half of the ranch was 160 acres, which Clarence Belknap had bought from the Oregon Boston Timber Company and logged in the 1940s, and the eastern half was 160 acres that had been the Sims Homestead. The Sims had farmed their property, had a small orchard, a barn, a lake, and ran a dairy at one time. The Sims’ property had also been the site of the first school above Blue River.

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