Camelot Golf & Country Club

Camelot Golf & Country Club is a private 18-hole course at 906 Quigley Hill Road in Cumberland, in the eastern part of the City of Ottawa, Ontario, on high ground above the Ottawa River with the Gatineau Hills across the water. It was designed by Thomas McBroom and opened in 1991. The hole-by-hole card we used plays to a par of 72 and measures 7,021 yards from the black tees, 6,601 from the blue, 6,141 from the white and 5,171 from the red. The club’s website is camelotgolf.ca, and the club describes the drive from downtown Ottawa as about 15 minutes.

Camelot is best known outside the city for its championships: it hosted the final two rounds of the 2012 Canadian Men’s Amateur, won by Mackenzie Hughes, and the 2018 World Junior Girls Championship, in which Atthaya Thitikul, now known on tour as Jeeno Thitikul, closed with a 60. It is also a members’ club in the strict sense. The club’s membership page states that only members and invited guests may play, so this page is as much about what the course is as about how, and whether, a visitor can get on it.

Which Camelot is this?

The name is shared by several unrelated courses in North America, and booking and review sites mix them up. This page is about Camelot Golf & Country Club in Cumberland, Ontario, the McBroom course east of Ottawa. It has nothing to do with the various Camelot Country Clubs and Golf Clubs in the United States, which appear in the same directories under near-identical names. The address to use is the one on the club’s contact page, 906 Quigley Hill Road.

History: a Pebble Beach idea for Ottawa’s east end

The club’s origin story, as told in a 2022 profile published by the Ottawa Business Journal’s sponsored content studio, begins with Don Noseworthy. In the early 1980s, on his return from Pebble Beach in California, he became convinced that Ottawa’s east end needed a premier private club. He brought the project to life with Phil and André Gagnon, whom the profile calls the “original threesome.” According to Top 100 Golf Courses, construction took about two and a half years.

The architect was Thomas McBroom, a Toronto-based designer and member of the Ontario Golf Hall of Fame, whose firm, Thomas McBroom Associates, went on to design dozens of courses in Canada and abroad. According to Top 100 Golf Courses, Camelot opened on 16 July 1991, with a ceremonial drive-in on the 1st hole. Not every source agrees on the year: the PGA of Canada release announcing the 2015 Assistants’ Championship says the course opened in 1992, and the 2022 profile marks the club’s 30th anniversary, which fits either reading depending on how one counts. We follow 1991, which is the date given by Top 100 Golf Courses, by the golf directories we consulted and by the Ottawa Business Journal profile itself.

The course was noticed early. The club and the PGA of Canada both state that Golf Digest ranked it the second-best new course in Canada, and fifth in North America, in its 1992 awards. More recently the club cites a SCOREGolf ranking of 90th in Canada, and Top 100 Golf Courses places it 72nd in its Central Canada list.

Camelot is an equity club, owned by its members. The 2022 profile reports that the ownership structure had recently been revised to keep the club funded for capital projects, and that upgrades to the greens were then nearing completion, with the stated ambition of moving into Canada’s top 50. We found no detailed public account of what that greens work involved or who carried it out, so we do not describe it further.

A championship record

The club lists its major events on its own championship page, and the outside reports we checked match it.

• 2001, Canadian Senior Men’s Championship: won by Graham Cooke, with Camelot member Brian Darling second. The club treats this as the start of its tournament history.
• 2008, Quebec Women’s Amateur: won by Maude-Aimée Leblanc of Sherbrooke, who later played on the LPGA Tour.
• 2012, Canadian Men’s Amateur: the 108th edition, with 240 players. The first two rounds were split between Camelot and Club de golf Outaouais in Rockland; the top 70 and ties played the last 36 holes at Camelot. Mackenzie Hughes, defending his 2011 title, shot 72, 67, 65 and 72 for 276, twelve under, to win by one from Brian Churchill-Smith and Chris Hemmerich, with Corey Conners fourth and Taylor Pendrith among those tied for fifth. AmateurGolf.com reported that Hughes’s bogey-free third-round 65 included three birdies in his last five holes and a holed chip on the 18th, and that a slow-play penalty on his final-round group was reviewed and not applied.
• 2015, PGA Assistants’ Championship of Canada: a 54-hole event won by Brad Kerfoot with 70, 69 and 68, nine under.
• 2017, Canadian Junior Girls Championship: won by Susan Xiao at five under, by five shots. Golf Ontario also notes that Camelot hosted a final qualifier for the 2017 CP Women’s Open and an event of the Canadian Women’s Tour.
• 2018, World Junior Girls Championship: the fifth edition, played 11 to 14 September with 57 players from 18 countries, according to Golf Ontario. Thitikul, then 15, won by two strokes. Her final round of 60, twelve under par, is described as a course record by both the club and her Wikipedia biography; the club gives her total as 268, twenty under. Italy beat the United States in a playoff for the team title.

What it asks of you

McBroom’s own description of the course, quoted by the club and by the PGA of Canada, is that it is “links-style up in the meadowland where the holes are defined by the fescue roughs,” with the rest set in wooded parkland. Top 100 Golf Courses puts it the same way: a split personality, part meadow and part park, on rolling ground overlooking the river. Tall pines frame several of the views.

The routing is a traditional one. The two nines return to the clubhouse, each opens with a par 5, and both the 9th and the 18th finish on a shared, horseshoe-shaped double green in front of the clubhouse, according to Top 100 Golf Courses. The club’s rules page notes that play starts only from the 1st and 10th tees, the 10th with the starter’s authorization, and sets a pace-of-play target of about four hours and 15 minutes.

The terrain matters as much as the length. A reviewer on Top 100 Golf Courses describes holes that sit above a ridgeline and others that drop into a valley and climb back out, and the club’s homepage carries an endorsement from a former Canadian Amateur champion singling out the variety of holes and the elevation changes. From the back tees the arithmetic is serious: five par 5s, five par 3s and eight par 4s, with the longest par 5 over 600 yards. From the white tees, at 6,141 yards, the same course becomes a more ordinary club length.

Tees and ratings

The club’s website links to a course and slope rating document, but the link returned an error page when we tried it in October 2026. The figures below therefore come from the Golfify course listing, which publishes a full hole-by-hole card. That card shows nine sets of tees, all par 72: black 7,021 yards, black/blue 6,828, blue 6,601, blue/white 6,352, white 6,141, white/green 5,910, yellow 5,709, green/red 5,342 and red 5,171. It gives ratings only for the combination tees: black/blue 73.3 with a slope of 135, blue/white 71.0 and 131, white/green 68.9 and 127, green/red 67.0 and 118. We could not check this card against an official club scorecard, so treat the yardages as indicative and confirm them in the golf shop.

The course, in sequences

Yardages below are from the black tees, then the white tees, on the Golfify card.

Holes 1 to 4: a par-5 start and early water

The 1st is a par 5 of 520 yards (462 white). The 2nd, a 418-yard par 4 (394), and the 4th, a 212-yard par 3 (160), are where water first comes into play, according to Top 100 Golf Courses; the 2nd is also the hole a 2026 reviewer on that site picks out as a good one. In between, the 3rd is a shorter par 4 of 362 yards (314). At the 2012 Amateur, AmateurGolf.com reported that Hughes made a double bogey on the 3rd and a bogey on the 4th in his final round, which says something about how quickly this stretch can cost shots under pressure.

Holes 5 to 9: the strongest run, by one account

The 5th is the longest hole on the front nine, a par 5 of 550 yards (474). It is followed by the 456-yard 6th (376), the 202-yard par-3 7th (177), the 392-yard 8th (364) and the 444-yard 9th (370), which carries stroke index 1 on the black-tee card and ends on the double green. One Top 100 Golf Courses reviewer names the 5th, 6th, 7th and 9th among the best holes on the course, with the 6th as a personal favourite. The outward half measures 3,556 yards, par 36.

Holes 10 to 14: the long par 5s and a choice of routes

The back nine opens with a 581-yard par 5 (509), and two holes later comes the 12th, the longest on the course at 602 yards (568). Between them, the 11th is a par 3 of 196 yards (166), and the 13th is a 421-yard par 4 (363). The 14th, a par 4 of 395 yards (321), is the hole that Top 100 Golf Courses singles out for its split fairway, which offers alternative routes to the green.

Holes 15 to 18: two short par 3s and a short par 5

The finish mixes the shortest holes on the course: the 15th is a 190-yard par 3 (159) and the 17th, at 144 yards (128), is the shortest hole on the card. Between them, the 16th is a par 5 of only 488 yards (468), reachable for long hitters. The 18th, a 448-yard par 4 (368), returns to the shared green below the clubhouse. The inward half measures 3,465 yards, par 36.

What golfers say

Because Camelot is private, there are far fewer public reviews of it than of a daily-fee course of similar standing, and the ones we found are not numerous enough to call a consensus. The points below summarize the themes that recur in what we read: two reviews on Top 100 Golf Courses (from 2024 and 2026), the club’s own published endorsements and member comments in the 2022 Ottawa Business Journal profile, which is sponsored content and should be read as such. These are other people’s opinions, not ours: we have not played the course, and we name and quote no reviewer.

What comes up in its favour

• The setting: views of the Ottawa River and the Gatineau Hills from several holes and from the patio come up in every source.
• Variety and elevation change, especially through the front nine, with the 2nd and the run from the 5th to the 9th named as highlights.
• Well-contoured greens with clean run-off areas, which give the course its teeth even though many holes are fairly open from the tee.
• The clubhouse and its castle theme, which carries through to holes named on knightly themes, are mentioned with some affection.
• Members praise the food, service and the relaxed atmosphere, and the practice facilities, which the club describes as among the best in the province.

What comes up against

• The repeated pattern of holes dropping into the valley and climbing back out can feel repetitive by the back nine, according to one reviewer.
• Uneven quality: one reviewer feels a few holes fall well below the best ones, and another suggests that some, the short par-5 16th among them, look fitted in to make up the par of 72.
• Access: for a golfer without a member to invite them, the course is simply not available.

Playing as a visitor

The club’s membership page is unambiguous: only members and invited guests are permitted to play at Camelot. There is no public tee-time system, and the Golfify listing records the guest policy as closed. The realistic routes onto the course are an invitation from a member, a club or corporate event, or a reciprocal arrangement. The membership page says Camelot members enjoy reciprocal privileges at private clubs in Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, Manitoba and Alberta, among them Wildfire, Whitlock and Royal Mayfair; members of private clubs elsewhere should ask their own head professional whether an arrangement exists, rather than contacting Camelot cold.

For those who do play, the club’s rules page includes a dress code updated in March 2026, and directory listings mention a driving range, short-game area, practice bunker, putting green, teaching professional, power and push carts and rental clubs. The club also runs an introductory women’s program and several membership categories, details of which are on its membership page.

Getting there and when to go

The club is at 906 Quigley Hill Road in Cumberland, Ontario (K4C 1H1), on the eastern edge of the city. Measured on the map, the course lies about 23 km east-northeast of Parliament Hill as the crow flies; the club itself quotes about 15 minutes by car from downtown. There is no practical public transit option for a round of golf here, so plan on driving.

The club does not publish season dates. A golf directory gives the playing season as 15 April to 15 October, which fits the Ottawa climate, but dates vary with the spring thaw and autumn weather, so confirm with the club. Camelot does not close in winter: the club describes groomed trails for cross-country skiing and snowshoeing, simulators for indoor play and winter events, and it produces its own maple syrup and honey on the property. It also holds Level 2 accreditation from the IPM Council of Canada for its pest management.

Green fees

As a private club, Camelot does not publish green fees, and we do not quote any. Guest fees and membership terms are set by the club: see the membership page or contact the club through its contact page.

How this page was made

This page was written in October 2026 from the following sources, all read for the purpose: the club’s website (home, golf, championship, membership, lifestyle and contact pages); the Golfify course listing for the hole-by-hole card and ratings; Top 100 Golf Courses (course profile, architect page and reviews); the PGA of Canada release on the 2015 PGA Assistants’ Championship; AmateurGolf.com reports on the 2012 Canadian Men’s Amateur; Golf Ontario’s preview of the 2018 World Junior Girls Championship; the Wikipedia biography of Jeeno Thitikul; the 2022 Ottawa Business Journal profile (sponsored content); and the GolfN directory listing. The club’s rating document could not be opened, and we found no public detail on the recent greens work. We have not played Camelot. The club has not paid for this page and has not reviewed it. If you spot an error, write to us and we will correct it.

Other courses nearby

Closest to this one in our Canadian directory:

• Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club — 27 km
• The Marshes Golf Club — 41 km
• Canadian Golf and Country Club — 56 km
• Cataraqui Golf and Country Club — 167 km