Brudenell River Golf Course

Brudenell River began as a nine-hole course on the site it still occupies. In the late 1960s Lorne Bonnell, a member of the Prince Edward Island Legislative Assembly, and a group of the course’s regulars built the eighteen that opened in 1969. C.E. Robbie Robinson laid it out; Graham Cooke has worked on it since.

It is a par 72 of 6,542 yards from the back tees, and its card is unusual: six par 3s, six par 4s and six par 5s. It shares its clubhouse and practice ground with its sister course, Dundarave.

What it asks of you

Six of each par is a card you almost never meet, and it makes the round something other than a standard eighteen. A third of the holes are one-shotters and a third are three-shotters, so the mid-iron approach that dominates most rounds barely appears.

For a short hitter that is punishing: six par 5s where three shots are needed and no realistic chance of getting home. For a long hitter it is the reverse, six clear scoring chances.

At 6,542 yards it is not long, and on Island ground with the wind off the Brudenell River the difficulty is variable rather than fixed. It is a very different course on a calm morning and a windy afternoon.

What players say about it

The course is public and provincially owned, and it is a fixture of the PEI golf trail. The points below summarise what recurs. These are other people’s opinions, not ours: we have not played the course, and we name and quote no one.

What comes up in its favor

• The six, six and six card is what reviewers name first, and most treat it as a virtue.
• The river setting is repeatedly praised.
• Value is good, which for a provincially owned resort course matters.
• Sharing the clubhouse with Dundarave makes a two-course day easy.
• Conditioning is generally well reported.

What comes up against

• Six par 5s is hard work for a short hitter, and rounds run long.
• At 6,542 yards it will not stretch a low handicap in calm conditions.
• The PEI season is short and busy in July and August.
• It is generally rated below Dundarave next door, which colours expectations.

Getting there and when to go

The course is at Roseneath near Cardigan, in eastern Prince Edward Island, about forty-five minutes from Charlottetown.

The season runs roughly from May to October. June and September give the best conditions and the fewest people. Tee times are booked in advance.

Green fees

Rates are set by the course. See the course’s own site.

How this page was made

The factual frame comes from public sources: OpenStreetMap for the location, encyclopaedic entries and Golf PEI for the original nine holes, Lorne Bonnell’s role, the 1969 opening, the Robbie Robinson layout and Graham Cooke’s later work, and published scorecards for par, yardage and the distribution of holes. The opinion section summarises public reviews read in September 2026; we report recurring themes rather than individual voices, and we reproduce no quotations.

We have not played this course, and this page is no substitute for a round. The course has not paid for this page, has not seen it before publication and has no say over its content. If you know it and something here is wrong or out of date, write to us and we will correct it.