Mississaugua Golf & Country Club

The club was founded in 1906 and its first nine holes were laid out by Percy Barrett, the professional at Lambton. Stanley Thompson lengthened and reworked the course in the late 1920s, in preparation for the 1931 Canadian Open, and it is Thompson’s version that survives.

The site is the valley of the Credit River in Mississauga, which gives the course the thing Toronto-area golf mostly lacks: real, abrupt elevation. It is consistently ranked among the best member courses in the country.

What it asks of you

A course routed along and across a river valley, with the drop from the clubhouse plateau to the river bottom used repeatedly through the round. Twelve of the holes sit within the floodplain, and the Credit itself is in play on several of them.

Thompson’s greens are the examination, as they always are: firm, subtly pitched, and set so that the approach from the wrong side of a fairway will not hold. The corridors are tree-lined and the ground moves, so level stances are rare and the yardage on the card is frequently the wrong number.

It is not overwhelming in length. What it asks for is placement, and an understanding of which side of each fairway the green will accept a ball from.

What players say about it

Guests play by member introduction, so the public record comes from guest accounts, tournament coverage and architecture writing. The notes below summarise recurring themes across those public sources. They are other people’s opinions, not ours: we have not played the course, and we do not name or quote individual reviewers.

What comes up in its favour

• The valley setting is the feature everybody mentions, and the elevation change is treated as the course’s defining quality in a region that has very little of it.
• Conditioning and presentation are consistently well rated, and the greens draw specific praise.
• The Thompson architecture is admired, and the club is regularly placed among the best member courses in Canada.
• The Credit River in play on multiple holes is both a hazard and, by common consent, the reason the course is beautiful.

What comes up against

• The floodplain is a genuine liability. Erosion of fairways along the river banks is a documented and recurring problem for the club.
• Access is closed, and the review record is thin as a result.
• The course is short by modern championship standards.
• The valley routing makes for a demanding walk, particularly the climbs back to the plateau.

Getting there and when to go

The club is in Mississauga, around thirty minutes west of downtown Toronto and twenty from Pearson, in the older part of the city beside the Credit River.

The season runs from roughly April to November. Late spring and September give the firmest ground and the best of the valley. Guest play is arranged through a member.

Green fees

Guest conditions and rates are set by the club and are not published. See the club’s own site.

How this page was made

The factual frame comes from public sources: OpenStreetMap for the location, Wikipedia and published architecture and championship coverage for the history and the Thompson work, and the club’s own site for access. The opinion section summarises public commentary and guest accounts read in September 2026; we report recurring themes rather than individual voices, and we do not reproduce or attribute quotes.

We have not played this course, and nothing here is a substitute for that. The club has not paid for this page, has not seen it before publication and has no say in what it says. If you know the course and something here is wrong or out of date, write to us and we will correct it.