A two-decade-long border security headache is finally over for a New Brunswick golf course tucked up against the U.S. border in the rolling hills of Victoria County.

Canadian golfers now have a safe, legal and all-Canadian route to the picturesque Aroostook Valley Country Club near Perth-Andover.

"The future of our club is back and very bright, and the club is vibrant," said Stephen Leitch, the club manager and golf pro.

Leitch credits a Canadian family that itself had to put up with the U.S. crackdown on the once-relaxed border area.

"I just went, 'You know what — this is never going to change,'" said Mary Pedersen, a Fredericton physician who grew up down the road — the American road – from the course.

"So I said, 'I'll donate the land.'"

Pedersen and her family transferred a strip

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