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30 Oakville Beaver Weekend Sunday, May 16,1999 An Oakville Beaver Feature Editor NORM NELSON 845-3824 (Extension 2 5 5 ) Fax:337-5567 Photo by Peter C. McCusker Cru tunes up with win over Irish dub House league soccer report Posh new RattleSnake Point opened for play on Friday The posh new 45-hole RattleSnake Point Golf Club located just outside Oakville's borders on Highway 25 in Milton opened for play on Friday. It's owned by the fast-growing Metro-based Canadian golf conglomerate ClubLink which recently purchased the area's other golf jewel, Glen Abbey Golf Club, home of the Canadian Open, and also recently purchased the SportDomes, and its nine-hold academy course, on the North Service Road Designed by award-winning architect Thomas McBroom, RattleSnake Point is the largest collection of holes to open in one season in Canada. The complex covers 685 acres within view of the magnificent Niagara Escarpment landmark that is its namesake. The private facility is comprised of two championship 18-hole courses (the Copperhead and the Sidewinder), the 9-hole Rattler Academy Course, an 18-acre practice facility, a 25,000 sq. foot practice putting green and 36 acres of water features. Recreational space includes a 49,000 sq. foot club­ house that features a banquet room with seating for 500 people. There are 1,440 lockers, an outdoor pool and a cabana. "Everything about RattleSnake Point Golf Club is vast, spectacular and of the highest quality," said Bruce Simmonds, president and CEO of ClubLink. The two RattleSnake Point courses have distinct per­ sonalities that will evolve as the first season progresses. The CopperHead course is a parkland-styled course that weaves across ravines and through woodlands beside Sixteen Mile Creek. The SideWinder moves across rolling terrain and has shot values associated with links courses. "Everything at RattleSnake is oversize," McBroom said. 'The enormous size of the property was a luxury. Although there are 45 holes, you always have a feeling \ of spaciousness and freedom. The practice green is W four times the size of a regular practice green. The K practice range is the biggest in the country and it g * looks great." H p l l The RattleSnake Point Golf Club becomes one of more than 60 courses ClubLink has in Canada and the United States. In Ontario and Quebec, ClubLink owns and operates 29 courses at 24 locations. This unidentified Oakville Crusader goes in for the tackle against a player from the visit­ ing Kinsale Rugby Football Club from Ireland in exhibition action last Wednesday night. The Crusaders won 27-0 and open their regular season this weekend against perennially strong York Yeoman. '• The touring Irish rugby team from Kinsale were no match for the host Crusaders first team Wednesday night, losing 27-0. The Kinsale team didn't have the luck of the Irish in that it was the last exhibition game for the Crusaders before their regular season kick-off this weekend. And they were definitely using the international exhibition match to get up to full speed. The Cru were slated to open their regular season in Toronto on Saturday against the perennially strong York Yeoman, who were last year's regular season champions. "It was a good warm-up for our season opener on Saturday," said full­ back Craig Gooms. "It allowed us to work through some of our stuff and get ready for the season." The Cru's man of the match, he said, was national team hopeful Phil Murphy. It was evident early on that the Cru were the better team. It's always hard to know with these kind of exhibitions what kind of team the touring club has managed to put together. In any event, Gooms said "our coach wanted to get as many of the (See 'The Crusade' page 31) (May 11/12) TIM HORTONS U-6B TEAM ONE (Kevin Kent, Heather Salema and Brendan Malony); TEAM TWO (Giovanni Siciliano, Jessica Smith and John Marco Testa); TEAM THREE (Matthew Crooke, Nicole Lazaris and Michael Ulozas); TEAM FOUR (Karishma Anano, Tedra Bolger and Nicholas Bruno); TEAM FIVE (Kelsey Kavic, Justin Burzycki and Darcy Chant); TEAM SIX (Steven Coles, Steven Dunford and Sara Pecino); TEAM SEVEN (Giancarlo Bonfiglio, Braedan Russell and Justin Silvero); TEAM EIGHT (Candace Fife, Daniel French and Daniel Pallant). BOYS U-8C DEPCO INTERNATIONAL 4 (Adam Forgione 3 and Matthew Prapavessis); ST. SIMON'S 2 (Cody Lockett and John Sant). HEELS AND HEMS 3 (Craig Leveridge, Cameron McDonald and Matthew Watts), TECHNICAL COATINGS 0. 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