 Albert Austin had laid out a few holes of golf in vacant farmlands in the area where Casa Loma now stands.This was strictly for the pleasure of his family and a few friends but grew into the Spadina Golf Club, which had a layout through farmers' fields north over St. Clair Avenue, through Forest Hill Village to just south of Eglinton.The clubhouse was a rented farmhouse at the northeast corner of St. Clair and Spadina Road.