The golf course was impacted by dry and smoky conditions this season, as well as the evacuation in June. (Derek Cornet/larongeNOW Staff)

By Derek Cornet

sports

Golfing season extended into October

Oct 1, 2025 | 4:27 PM

Warm weather in recent weeks has extended the golfing season at Eagle Point Resort.

“We’re open a little bit longer into October and we kind of wrapped major things up last weekend,” said Owner Lolita Poirer, whose golf course closed Sept. 30 in 2024.

“We had the Night Golf tournament on Friday and Devin Bernatchez with Sucker River had a two-person best ball on Sunday, so that kind of wraps the tournament season up and now it’s trying to get in as much golf as we can.”

The proshop and golf course at Eagle Point will remain open throughout this week and perhaps into next week depending on the weather. The last tee time of the day is currently at 5 p.m. and Poirier noted the golf course will be closed for sure by Thanksgiving weekend.

It was a difficult year for Eagle Point Resort due to dry and smoky conditions throughout most of the spring and summer, as well as the wildfire evacuation in June. Poirer stayed in La Ronge during the evacuation to prevent as much damage from occurring as possible at the resort.

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“We definitely put a couple fires out that would have taken off had we not been here,” she remarked.

“Unfortunately, we did lose quite a few buildings at our big maintenance yard. The guys were able to pull out a lot of golf course equipment and some other stuff, but we lost golf course maintenance equipment and irrigation stuff.”

Although attendance was slightly impacted by the evacuation and smoky conditions, Poirer noted it was still rather busy.

“It didn’t prevent us from carrying on with the season,” she added.

“I don’t know if people were just fed up with being evacuated again and wanted to do something better and that was golf. It was a smoky season of course. I think it only really cleared up at the end of August and thankfully it has been a beautiful fall.”

Dry conditions brought challenges of its own as the golf course only has in-ground irrigation on the greens and tee boxes. The remainder of the course has to be watered by hand by dragging around heavy fire hoses attached to sprinklers.

“We hire from Besnard Lake Correctional Facility, but even they were evacuated for quite a bit of the summer, so our usual labour pool was less so,” Poirier said, noting the greens ended up being in great shape for most of the season.

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derek.cornet@pattisonmedia.com