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Golfing for every body — with a view of Niagara Falls

Legends is one of North America’s first with special carts for mobility-impaired golfers.

Everybody’s heard of Niagara Falls. But what about golf in Niagara? The Niagara region is home to 40‑plus courses. Now, one welcomes golfers of all kinds, including mobility impaired.

In summer 2007, Legends on the Niagara became one of North America’s few public facilities to offer accessible golf. The Niagara Parks Commission, which owns and operates Legends, purchased a SoloRider, a golf cart specially built for mobility-impaired golfers. Its swiveling electric stand-up seat (allowing golfers to assume any position from sitting to standing) elevates so players can tee off and putt. Turf-friendly tires allow golfers to drive right onto the greens. (You’ll also find the cart at Whirlpool Golf Course, Niagara Park’s other highly ranked layout.)

“The SoloRider has been a big success,” says Brian Moore, Niagara Parks’ director of golf. “It’s great to see the way the cart is letting golfers who have been sidelined from the sport get back on the course again.”

And it’s a pretty snazzy course, too. Legends is a $27 million golf complex that curls just off the banks of the Niagara River, above the Falls. There are two top-notch, 18-hole courses (the world’s best female golfers teed off at the Battlefields course during the Canadian Women’s Open), a nine-hole loop and Canada’s best-equipped practice facility — all designed by Tom McBroom and Doug Carrick, the country’s premier architects. www.niagaraparksgolf.com

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