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Golf courses in Canada

Course profiles built from official and public sources: length, the hole to know, the season that suits the course and what a round costs.

Glen Lovat Golf Club

A public course on Frasers Mountain above New Glasgow, Nova Scotia: 18 holes, par 72 and 6,530 yards from the blue tees on the…

Glen Arbour Golf Course

Graham Cooke's 27 holes in the hardwoods of Hammonds Plains, beside Bottle Lake and Sandy Lake: host of the 2005 Canadian Women's Open and…

Glen Abbey Golf Club

Jack Nicklaus's first solo design, in Oakville, Ontario: host of 30 Canadian Opens from 1977 to 2018, saved from redevelopment in 2021, and open…

Fraserglen Golf Course

A public 18-hole executive course on the Sumas Prairie in Abbotsford, B.C.: par 61 and 3,661 yards from the blue tees, with a Toptracer…

Fairview Mountain Golf Club

A hillside course above Oliver in the South Okanagan, played since 1925 and expanded to 18 holes by Les Furber: par 72 and 7,025…

Eighteen Pastures

A public hillside course in Mission, BC, opened in 1989 and cut from forest: 18 holes, par 72 and 6,697 yards from the yellow…

Digby Pines Golf Course

A Stanley Thompson course above the Annapolis Basin in Digby, Nova Scotia, built for the Canadian Pacific Railway's Pines hotel and little changed since:…

Crimson Ridge

A Kevin Holmes design on 335 acres of Canadian Shield above Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario: 18 holes, par 72, about 6,800 yards from the…

Confederation Park Golf Course

A City of Calgary nine-hole course in Confederation Park, the north-west coulee park created for the 1967 centennial: 3,203 yards from the blue tees,…

Carnmoney Golf & Country Club

A private, member-owned course in Foothills County south of Calgary, designed by Les Furber as an inland links and opened in 1992: 18 holes,…

Campbell River Golf Club

The course of Naturally Pacific Resort in Campbell River, on Vancouver Island, rebuilt by Graham Cooke and reopened in 2018: 18 holes, par 71…

Camelot Golf & Country Club

A private Thomas McBroom course in Cumberland, east of Ottawa, opened in 1991: 18 holes, par 72, 7,021 yards from the black tees, and…

Brookfield Golf & Country Club

A public 18-hole course in Brookfield, Colchester County, off Highway 102 between Halifax and Truro: par 70 and 5,597 yards from the white tees…

Brantford Golf & Country Club

A private club on the Grand River in Brantford, Ontario, founded in 1879 and laid out by Nicol Thompson and George Cumming: 18 holes,…

Bowen Island Golf Club

A nine-hole public course at Cowan Point on Bowen Island, a short ferry ride from Horseshoe Bay: par 35 and 3,003 yards from the…

Blue Devil Golf Club

A public course in Calgary's Bow River valley beside Fish Creek Provincial Park, designed by Gary Browning and Wade Horrocks: 18 holes, par 72…

Baxter Creek Golf Club

A public 18-hole David L. Moote design on a former family farm at Fraserville, south-west of Peterborough: par 72 and 6,601 yards from the…

The Marshes Golf Club

One of the last courses Robert Trent Jones senior and junior built together, opened at Kanata in 2002: six par 3s, six par 4s…

St Charles Country Club

The only club on earth where Donald Ross and Alister MacKenzie each built nine holes: Bendelow in 1905, Ross in 1919, MacKenzie's North nine…

Dundarave Golf Course

A Hurdzan and Fry course opened in 1999 to show off Prince Edward Island's red sandstone: 7,089 yards and 120 bunkers filled with red…

Canadian Golf and Country Club

Twenty-seven holes on farm ground at Ashton since 1975, played as a par 72 West and a par 70 East: the East is the…

Brudenell River Golf Course

Built in 1969 by a member of the PEI legislature and the regulars who played there: a par 72 of 6,542 yards whose card…

Bayview Golf and Country Club

A 1960 Robbie Robinson course at Thornhill that four architects have worked on since: over 7,000 yards, which in 1960 was building for a…

Aspotogan Ridge Golf Club

A Robert Leblanc nine built in 2018 on the Nova Scotia South Shore, where the granite is close enough to the surface to be…

Aroostook Valley Country Club

Founded in 1929 with the clubhouse a few feet inside Canada so American members could drink through Prohibition: you still park in Maine and…

Angus Glen Golf Club

Two Doug Carrick eighteens in Markham that have both hosted the Canadian Open: Rollins on the South in 2002, Furyk on the North in…

Weston Golf and Country Club

Willie Park junior on severe ground above the Humber, and the course where Arnold Palmer won the first of his sixty-two tour titles in…

Westmount Golf & Country Club

Late Stanley Thompson at Kitchener, opened in 1931 after Jasper and Banff: wide landing areas, flashed bunkering, fast greens, and almost no level lies.

Toronto Golf Club

Harry Colt's first North American course, ready in 1912 and now stripped of two thousand trees: a middle stretch writers rank with the best…

The Riverside Country Club

Saskatchewan's oldest club still on its original ground, laid out in 1912 above the South Saskatchewan: two closing holes reviewers rank among the best…

St. George’s Golf and Country Club

Stanley Thompson's best inland work, built for the Royal York Hotel in 1929 and freshly restored: four celebrated closing holes, and greens you cannot…

Settlers’ Ghost Golf Club

An inland links north of Barrie named for the Huron-Wendat settlement and the settlers who followed: fast greens, Georgian Bay views, and value reviewers…

Rosedale Golf Club

One of the few Donald Ross courses in Canada, on ravine ground inside Toronto and restored from a 1939 aerial photograph: green complexes reviewers…

Predator Ridge Resort

Two Doug Carrick courses on dry Okanagan benchland: the hard links-like Predator and the forgiving Ridge, both firm, both excellent, and both a once-a-year…

Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club

Willie Park junior in 1920, on flat Ottawa valley ground with greens rebuilt by Hurdzan: very fast surfaces carrying a course that has nothing…

Oakdale Golf & Country Club

Founded in 1926 by Toronto Jews excluded from the city's clubs, laid out by Stanley Thompson, and host of the Canadian Open in 2023…

Niakwa Country Club

Stanley Thompson on the Seine floodplain in Winnipeg since 1923, bunkers rebuilt by Doug Carrick: the Horn, and the hardest par 72 in the…

Mississaugua Golf & Country Club

Stanley Thompson in the Credit River valley, ready for the 1931 Canadian Open: the elevation Toronto golf otherwise lacks, and a floodplain that keeps…

Greystone Golf Club

Early Doug Carrick on the Niagara Escarpment, one of the four original ClubLink courses: wide fairways that narrow where you want to land, and…

Lambton Golf and Country Club

Bendelow in 1902, Thompson in 1927, on 171 acres falling to the Humber: a clubhouse on the high point, a long climb home, and…

Cobble Beach Golf Resort

Doug Carrick built a links on the limestone above Georgian Bay: the bay in view from almost every hole, an opening tee shot into…

Cataraqui Golf and Country Club

Stanley Thompson at Kingston, restored by Doug Carrick: finger bunkering, fast subtle greens, and a top-hundred course in a city nobody plans a golf…

Burnaby Mountain Golf Course

A 1971 Robbie Robinson municipal on a mountain slope above Burrard Inlet: better kept than visitors expect, open most winters, and almost never a…

Bear Mountain

The only thirty-six hole Nicklaus facility in Canada, cut into the coast range above Victoria: mountain and ocean views, and a sharp public argument…

Amaruk Golf Club

Nine holes cut into the Labrador spruce for the airmen at Goose Bay, one of only two courses in the territory: greens rated among…