Seven Generations holds 15th annual golf tournament

Randy Morrisseau of Couchiching First Nation made the shot of lifetime when he scored an albatross on a par 5 during Seven Generation Educational Institute’s 15th Annual Four-Person, 18-Hole Scramble Tournament on June 14.
After teeing off, Morrisseau sunk in his second shot from the fairway to give him three-under-par for that hole. According to golf experts, the odds of scoring an albatross on a par 5 is one in 1,000,000 – much rarer than a hole-in-one on a par 3.
Morrisseau and his teammates were stunned when they learned he sunk in his shot.
“I felt awesome,” Morrisseau, 28, said. “It’s probably the best shot I’ve hit in my golf career.”
Morrisseau said he has been playing golf for at least eight years and has been mostly playing at the Heron Landing Golf Course in Fort Frances, where the tournament took place.
“It’s a quality game,” he said of taking up golf. “Just everything. It’s all on your self, it’s not team centred.”
Despite hitting a one-in-a-million shot, Morrisseau was modest in describing his play during the tournament.
“Just having a good time trying to play some golf – trying to,” he said with a laugh. “Made a couple shots but it’s all fun.”
Seven Generations’ CEO Delbert Horton said that’s what the golf tournament is all about.
“But also we raise a little bit of money for youth activities,” he said. “Sometimes young people need another extra help and they have no other place to access a few bucks to do something.”
Horton added, “It’s nothing major. It’s not a big pool of money but it’s something.”
The golf tournament was held the day after Seven Generations’ graduation ceremony, where they honoured more than 100 grads from the Treaty 3 area in northwestern Ontario.