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Canada

Canada’s mix of French and British traditions makes you wonder why the French and English can’t get along a little better, but this cosmopolitan mix makes Canada excitingly diverse just like its landscape.

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  1. Cabot Cliffs

    Nova Scotia, Canada

    Situated half a mile away from Cabot Links, the Cliffs golf course occupies a more diverse landscape than its predecessor, sitting atop the bluffs that overlook the Gulf of St Lawrence...

  2. 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.

  3. Cabot Links

    Nova Scotia, Canada

    Cabot Links is located just outside the small town of Inverness on the rugged west coast of Cape Breton Island and these fairways, overlooking the Gulf of St Lawrence, comprise Canada’s first genuine links layout.

  4. We’ve waxed lyrical about the location of Banff Springs Golf Club, but we can assure you that nothing prepares you for the reality, charm and sheer enormity of the setting.

  5. Jasper Park Lodge is a course that will appeal to golfers of all levels. It is both interesting and challenging without being brutal.

  6. Highlands Links

    Nova Scotia, Canada

    Highlands Links golf course is set in one of Canada’s most gorgeous spots and this is where golf and Mother Nature join together in sweet harmony...

  7. Capilano Golf & Country Club

    British Columbia, Canada

    Capilano Golf & Country Club is set most dramatically, protected to the north and east by the mountains of British Columbia. It’s a glorious setting with views across Vancouver Harbour to Mount Baker beyond.

  8. 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.

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

  10. 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...

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

  12. Beacon Hall Golf Club

    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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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...

  15. Redtail

    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.

  16. Oviinbyrd Golf Club

    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.

  17. Muskoka Bay Resort

    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.

  18. Sagebrush Golf Club

    British Columbia, Canada

    Sagebrush ran into serious financial difficulties and closed its tees for play in the fall of 2014 and was due to reopen in 2016 as a high-end pay-and-play public facility managed by Troon Golf. However in September 2017 the course closed and remained shut, finally reopening in July 2021.

  19. 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.

  20. 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.

  21. Goodwood Golf 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...

  22. Calgary Golf & Country Club was formed way back in 1897, moving to its present location in 1908 when it enlisted Tom Bendelow to lay out the original course.

  23. Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club

    British Columbia, Canada

    Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club is a classic, private parkland course overlooking the Fraser River and Strait of Georgia.

  24. Coppinwood

    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...

  25. Blackhawk Golf Club

    Alberta, Canada

    Designed by Rod Whitman, a native Albertan, Blackhawk Golf Club quickly established itself as one of the top contemporary courses in Canada when it opened in 2003...

  26. Humber Valley Resort (River)

    Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

    Humber Valley Resort is situated in the Appalachian Mountain range, on the northern side of the Humber River and Deer Lake in western Newfoundland, and it opened for business in 2006.

  27. Victoria Golf Club - Canada

    British Columbia, Canada

    Established in 1893 by British expats who emigrated to Canada, Victoria is the oldest golf club in Canada which still plays on its original site.

  28. Greywolf Golf Course

    British Columbia, Canada

    Greywolf Golf Course may have wonderful changes in elevation, spectacular views and thought provoking design but what truly sets it apart is the quality of turf.

  29. Bigwin Island

    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...

  30. Predator Ridge (Ridge)

    British Columbia, Canada

    The routing of the Ridge course at Predator Ridge Resort takes advantage of the site’s elevation changes to locate some lofty tee positions, at the same time minimising the number of tough, uphill holes that all golfers hate.

  31. 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.

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

  33. St Thomas

    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.

  34. Tobiano

    British Columbia, Canada

    Tobiano Golf Course opened for play in 2007 and the layout is intimidating to a lot of golfers, especially as many of the fairways demand testing carries across deep arroyos en route to infinity greens..

  35. Rosedale Golf Club

    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...

  36. 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...

  37. Links at Crowbush Cove

    Prince Edward Island, Canada

    The Links at Crowbush Cove is an 18-hole public course situated on what was formerly “swampy campground” on the north coast of Prince Edward Island.

  38. The course at Mickelson National Golf Club finally opened for play in the summer of 2020, thirteen years after the project first got off the ground. It was originally earmarked as a Johnny Miller and Stephen Ames co-production called the Copithorne Club...

  39. Kawartha Golf Club

    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...

  40. Rocky Crest

    Ontario, Canada

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

  41. Scarboro

    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...

  42. London Hunt

    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.

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

  44. Summit Golf Club

    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...

  45. 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.

  46. Royal Colwood

    British Columbia, Canada

    Royal Colwood Golf Club is one of only five clubs in Canada to have the "Royal" title in their name and this honour was bestowed on the club by King George V in 1931.

  47. Mad River

    Ontario, Canada

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

  48. Georgian Bay

    Ontario, Canada

    The Georgian Bay Club property sits on a beautiful tract of land on the Niagara Escarpment where it reaches Georgian Bay, a large bay of Lake Huron... over thirty course routings were discarded by architect Jason Straka before deciding the final layout.

  49. Rugged terrain and dramatic contours cause the Old course at Wolf Creek Golf Resort to play a lot longer than the scorecard suggests.

  50. Big Sky

    British Columbia, Canada

    Big Sky Golf and Country Club is located a 35 minute drive north of the Whistler resort at Pemberton, British Columbia, in the shadow of snow-capped Mount Currie.