As distinctively Canadian as the beaver and Niagara Falls, the mountain courses of Alberta and British Columbia are a vital part of our golfing heritage; living proof that, thanks largely to the genius of Stanley Thompson, nobody builds them better.
Grapes and Greens in the Thompson-Okanagan
September 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Award-winning vineyards and superior golf — the irresistibly modern one-two tourism punch pioneered by California’s Napa and Sonoma valleys — has in less than two decades put the once largely overlooked Thompson-Okanagan region of British Columbia on the radar of discerning travellers.
In Praise of Predator Ridge Resort
August 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Earlier this summer, Links Magazine, an American golf publication, listed its top 10 Canadian golf resorts. Though it’s not a badly done list, as a Canadian writer who has visited virtually every leading golf property in this country, I do have a serious quibble. How could they possibly have left out British Columbia’s Predator Ridge Resort?
Birdies and Birdwatching at Victoria’s Cordova Bay
July 7, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Once ranked alongside the razing of rain forests as an ecologically hostile activity, golf has embraced the green movement with the zeal of the converted. In the first in a series profiling Canada’s greenest courses, we look at Victoria’s Cordova Bay Golf Course’s winning combination of birdies and birdwatching.
