The Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club will be looking for a new head pro after the sudden departure this week of first-year pro Max Murphy.

Murphy, 28, who was hired early this year after working as an assistant pro at the Cherry Hill Club in Fort Erie, “recently resigned,” the club’s owners said in a note to members on Wednesday morning.

Whoever takes over will be the third head pro at the club since longtime professional Billy Simkin left after the 2021 season.

He was succeeded by Keith Vant, who departed for the Glendale Golf Club in Hamilton this spring after two seasons in NOTL.

With Murphy leaving, club owners Eva Kessel, Marc Forbes and Rob DiDomenico told members that golf operations will now be overseen by assistants Darren Smith and Owen Howells.