Ian,
Mickey Boyle’s book, "Ninety Years of Golf, An Illustrated History of Golf in Saskatchewan”, contains ten pages of details about Thompson’s activities in Regina in the late twenties. To summarize, Thompson was hired in 1928 by the City to design a 36 hole course in an area called Boggy Creek/Kings Park. Thompson first attended Regina with two assistants on September 23, 1928, and spent a few days on the property. The city approved the project on October 3, 1928, and an article in The Morning Leader on March 19, 1929, reported that Thompson had made for the city “eighteen plasticene models each more than a foot square” with work on the course expected to begin in the spring and the course ready for play during the summer of 1931. However, the depression intervened so Boyle writes, “In the fall of 1930, after work on the championship course was suspended, Park Superintendent James Craig was authorized to prepare a simplified sand greens course using the design for the shorter Thompson course. Craig soon had the sand greens ready and the Tor Hill course was opened in June of 1931. In 1983 it was redesigned by the City of Regina Parks and Recreation Department with bunkers, water hazards, irrigation and grass greens. . . The championship course Thompson had designed was completed in 1962 [called The Murray] with grass greens, turfed teeing areas and irrigated fairways . . . Total capital expenditure for the Murray stands at $160,000. This includes $6,000 for the Thompson fee, $34,000 spent in 1929 and $120,000 for a first class irrigation system, greens and tees in 1960.”
Greg