The story of a millwright, a stenographer, three kids, and 150 acres of stones.
In the early 1970s, Herb and Margaret Wolfram bought 150 acres of corn fields near Odessa. Most weekends all winter, the family drove down from Mississauga to measure and re-measure the land so Herb, a millwright by trade, could go home and plan the course layout himself.
What followed was years of clearing brush on frozen wetland, plowing under corn fields, hand-building greens from peat moss, mushroom manure and sand, and picking every single stone off 150 acres, from pebbles to boulders, as a family of five.
Herb & Marg purchase 150 acres of corn fields. Winter weekends are spent measuring; Herb designs the course layout himself.
The family clears brush, plows fields, and picks stones, riding a homemade board rigged behind the little grey tractor. Baked potatoes in the fire at day's end.
Camden Braes opens with 9 holes. The pipeline crossing the property delayed the back nine, but nothing was stopping opening day.
The pipeline is through, and the full 18-hole course is completed. The clubhouse was in the family home.
Still family owned and operated. The tiny transplanted trees now tower over the fairways, including the famous triple-planted groves between 10 and 12.
Camden Braes celebrates 50 years of family golf.
Linda Wolfram Fraser
That spirit still runs the place. It's why members call themselves the Camden Braes family, why kids play for less and birthdays play free, and why the course is kept the natural way, as part of the land it was carved from, not apart from it.
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Camden Braes is part of the natural, healthy ecosystem, with the smallest carbon footprint of any golf course in the area.
