From the forests of Newfoundland to the mountain valleys of British Columbia, a spring survey of unjustly overlooked golf courses offering bargain green fees, less crowded fairways and jaw-dropping scenery.
Start Packing for the St. Kitts Open
April 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Brilliantly rebuilt several years ago by Canadian architect Tom McBroom, Royal St. Kitts Golf Club hosts the 32nd Johnnie Walker St. Kitts Open May 17 to 19.
Inside the Magic of Canada’s Best Par Threes
March 19, 2013 by 1 Comment
Through a magical mix of spectacular geography and artful design, Canada’s signature par threes often reflect not just the character of golf at a particular course, but of an entire region of the country.
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?
Cape Breton Golf Rides the Perfect Wave
August 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Like the waves crashing against the shoreline at Cape Breton’s recently launched Cabot Links, golf’s hot spots come one upon the next. In their turn, the courses of Whistler, Prince Edward Island, Muskoka, Niagara, the Laurentians, the Alberta Rockies and more recently the Okanagan Valley have all been the toast of Canadian golf. Now, for [...]
Toronto: Canada’s Great Unsung Golf Destination
August 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
When people talk of great Canadian golf destinations, Toronto is inevitably overlooked in favour of Whistler, the Alberta Rockies, Muskoka, Mont-Tremblant and other popular resort areas. Yet Canada’s largest city can match and maybe even top them all. Found within an hour’s drive of Toronto’s downtown core are more than 200 courses, including several of [...]
Challenge Muskoka’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Fairways
July 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Not since Stanley Thompson’s groundbreaking Rocky Mountain layouts opened in Jasper and Banff in the 1920s has another golf destination equalled Muskoka’s impact on Canadian golf course design. Just as Thompson established a template for mountain courses followed to this day, Tom McBroom, Doug Carrick and other top architects are using the granite outcroppings of [...]
