09/30/2026
Today, on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we remember the children who never returned home from residential schools, honour Survivors, their families and communities, and recognize the system’s lasting impacts on Indigenous Peoples and our responsibilities in reconciliation.
Reconciliation asks more of institutions than remembrance on a single day. It asks what we do with what we learn.
In golf, that includes being willing to hear when spaces familiar to many of us still feel unfamiliar, intimidating, or unwelcoming to others. It means looking honestly at the traditions, expectations, policies, and systems around the game, and understanding how they can shape who feels invited in, who feels they belong, and who stays.
Indigenous leaders, communities, and partners have been advancing this work in and through golf for many years. The responsibility now is to keep listening, to act on what we learn, and to be accountable for what changes.
September 30 is a day for truth, remembrance, and reflection. Reconciliation has to live in the work that follows.
