(Last updated November 2019.) 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 tops them all. Found within an hour’s drive of Toronto’s downtown core are more than 200 courses, including several of the country’s top […]
Teeing It Up and Reeling Them In on Vancouver Island
July 30, 2012 by
(Last updated November 2022.) When I travel, I’m always on the lookout for authentic local experiences to mix with golf. So I was thrilled to discover that at Vancouver Island’s Campbell River, the self-proclaimed “salmon fishing capital of the world,” you can tee it up and cast your line all in the same day.
Banff Springs: Monarch of Mountain Golf
July 25, 2012 by
Set amid majestic Rocky Mountain peaks, Alberta’s world-famous Fairmont Banff Springs Golf Course is a showcase for the genius of Stanley Thompson, Canada’s most revered golf course architect.
Challenge Muskoka’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Fairways
July 23, 2012 by
(Last updated December 2022.) Not since Stanley Thompson’s groundbreaking Rocky Mountain layouts opened in Jasper and Banff in the 1920s has another golf destination come close to matching 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 […]
Dakota Dunes Sparks Prairie Golf Boom
July 20, 2012 by
(Last updated August 2018.) Previously unfamiliar to the majority of Canadian golfers, Saskatchewan’s golf courses are suddenly as hot as a prairie heat wave. In August 2018, Wascana Country Club, a private facility in Regina, was the site of Canadian Brooke Henderson’s victory in the LPGA Tour’s Canadian Pacific Women’s Open, the first time Canada’s […]
