Designed in the 1920s by Stanley Thompson, the Banff Springs Golf Course and the Fairmont hotel that looms like a fairy-tale fortress on the cliffs overhead have become iconic symbols of the Canadian game. Wherever he could, Thompson left nature alone, taking his routing through tunnels of fir trees, while bringing into play the Spray and Bow Rivers. Thompson startled the golf world by clearing gaps through the forest to point golfers toward greens aligned with distant mountains, and by whimsically patterning his bunkers after the snow formations on their peaks. (Image: Fairmont Banff Springs)
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