Top 100 Central Canada

Ontario, Canada

With tight twisting fairways and undulating terrain, St George’s Golf & Country Club is a man and woman-sized test of golf and five-time host to the Canadian Open.

Ontario, Canada

Toronto Golf Club was Canada’s first championship course and was the yardstick against which all future golf courses would be measured.

Ontario, Canada

Hamilton Golf & Country Club, or Ancaster as it is known locally, is located on land that was once known as Grange Farm and it is set most beautifully in elegant, heavily wooded seclusion.

Ontario, Canada

With narrow, undulating and tree-lined fairways, it’s easy to see on the surface why The National Golf Club of Canada is so tough, but the more formidable challenge arrives at the greens.

Ontario, Canada

Westmount Golf & Country Club was designed by legendary golf course architect Stanley Thompson, who constructed many of Canada’s top tracks between the First and Second World Wars.

Ontario, Canada

Devil’s Paintbrush is as close to a links style of course that you can get over terrain that is nowhere near the sea...

Québec, Canada

Royal Montreal gets all the golfing attention in Quebec but the real gem in the province is Willie Park Jnr’s Old World course at Mount Bruno Country Club...

Ontario, Canada

Set out on the glacial moraine landscape to the north of Toronto, the course at Goodwood Golf Club is a new millennium layout that was conceived by the late Canadian entrepreneur Gordon Stollery as a private golfing retreat...

Ontario, Canada

Developed by entrepreneur Peter Schwartz, Oviinbyrd is an exclusive golf club that first opened in 2005 with members playing on a Thomas McBroom designed course.

Ontario, Canada

Beacon Hall Golf Club is a private, 18-hole course contained within a 265-acre site which is located on the Oak Ridges Moraine, a thirty-minute drive north of Toronto.

Québec, Canada

Set out within a tumbling landscape where the routing allows several spectacular changes in elevation, Memphrémagog Golf Club is already regarded as one of Tom McBroom’s best designs...

Ontario, Canada

The golf course at Muskoka Bay Club sits at “The Gateway to the Muskoka Lake District” and it’s within this rugged landscape that Doug Carrick designed a layout that blends in beautifully with its surroundings.

Ontario, Canada

Plenty of earth was shifted during the construction of the course at Coppinwood Golf Club (well over a million cubic metres according to some) and the resulting holes look anything but manufactured...

Ontario, Canada

As the name suggests, Lookout Point Country Club lies at one of the most elevated local positions on the Niagara Escarpment, just ten miles west of the world famous Falls...

Ontario, Canada

The city of Toronto may have grown ever closer during the 100 years since the Summit Golf Club was founded but this 260-acre property remains a refuge from the hustle and bustle of an outside world...

Ontario, Canada

Formed in 1899, St Thomas is one of the oldest golf clubs in Canada, originally known as St Thomas Pinafore Park Golf Club.

Québec, Canada

Laval-sur-le-lac is one of most prosperous districts in the province of Quebec and it’s in this affluent environment that the private golf club of the same name was formed back in 1917.

Ontario, Canada

The 144-acre Scarboro Golf & Country Club site was the venue of four Canadian Opens and three of these championships were decided by one stroke...

Ontario, Canada

One of the oldest golfing institutions in the greater Toronto area, Rosedale Golf Club was established in the Don Valley back in 1893...

Ontario, Canada

Scottish golf course architect Willie Park Junior designed Weston Golf & Country Club and this former Canadian Open venue is now a monument to Arnold Palmer.

Ontario, Canada

Redtail is an exclusive course in Port Stanley, south of London, Ontario. Donald Steel and Tom Mackenzie designed it at the behest of two London businessmen, who wanted their own, private golfing playground.

Ontario, Canada

The lush, parkland fairways of Maple Downs Golf & Country Club have been modified over the years by a number of renowned architects...

Ontario, Canada

Eagles Nest Golf Club made a confident entrance onto the Canadian golfing stage in 2004, described as “among the most impressive modern courses to open in Canada in the past thirty years.”

Ontario, Canada

Cherry Hill Club was established in 1922 when nine founding members from nearby Buffalo acquired a tract of farmland which was then turned over to Walter J Travis for transformation into an 18-hole course.

Ontario, Canada

Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry fashioned Devil's Pulpit, a track that defines everything that is exciting in modern golf course design...

Ontario, Canada

Kawartha Golf & Country Club is a Stanley Thompson design with, as one might expect from its eminent designer, an excellent set of par threes...

Ontario, Canada

Brantford Golf & Country Club was established in 1879 so it is the fourth oldest club in North America, it's also one of Canada's toughest courses.

Ontario, Canada

The modern day Bigwin Island golf course may only have opened for play in 2002 but its location has a history going back 80 years to 1922...

Ontario, Canada

Opening in 1959, London Hunt Country Club is the site of one of the very few Robert Trent Jones designs in Canada and – keeping it in the family – Jones’s son Rees renovated the layout 40 years after it debuted.

Ontario, Canada

Designed by Martin Hawtree, the highly rated public access course at Tarandowah Golfers Club is proud to promote “the adventure of pure golf”.

Ontario, Canada

The 54 holes at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley all came from the drawing board of architect Doug Carrick and the Hoot course was the second layout to open at the resort.

Ontario, Canada

“Cataraqui” is the original native name for Kingston, the “Limestone City”, where the Cataraqui Golf & Country Club course is located, midway between Toronto and Montreal.

Québec, Canada

Royal Montreal Golf Club’s beginnings in 1873 can be traced back to a small group of Scots who got together to recreate their national sport.

Ontario, Canada

The Heathlands course at Osprey Valley was created by Doug Carrick who took an uninspiring, largely flat, former gravel quarry and fashioned a man-made, links-like, 18 holes.

Ontario, Canada

The Donald Ross greens at Essex Golf & Country Club are prominent because they dominate a very flat, largely featureless property...

Ontario, Canada

Mississaugua Golf & Country Club took its name from the Mississauga Indian Tribe and those of you with eagle eyes may notice an extra vowel in the spelling of the club name.

Québec, Canada

Laval-sur-le-Lac really made its mark on the golfing world stage when it became the venue for the 2nd Canada Cup (the forerunner of today’s annual World Cup) in 1954.

Ontario, Canada

Mad River Golf Club has developed into a beautiful parkland track with tree-lined, often doglegged fairways playing to small greens...

Ontario, Canada

Rocky Crest Golf Resort is situated on the western shores of Lake Joseph, and the golf course opened for play in 2000.

Ontario, Canada

The faux links course at Cobble Beach lies on the rocky clifftops that overlook Georgian Bay and it’s yet another design from the prolific Doug Carrick.