HILL: SMALL-TOWN BOY MAKES IT BIG AT CANADIAN OPEN

Posted on 29. Jul, 2009 by admin in Golf News

Will Hill

7/25/2009 8:11:06 PM

It would be easy to describe Weyburn, Saskatchewan as a one
stop-light kind of town. But that wouldn’t be fair according to one of
its more newly celebrated citizens.

“There are at least three or four stoplights now”, says Graham
DeLaet with a laugh. “They’ve added a couple since I was young. But,
yeah, it’s still a really small town where everyone knows everyone
else”.

For a small town, Weyburn (pop. 9, 833) has produced more than its
fair share of big names. It was the home to Tommy Douglas, the famed
creator of public health insurance in Canada. Prolific author W.O.
Mitchell was born there. So too was the NHL’s most prolific pugilist,
Dave “Tiger” Williams.

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