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
How top Canadian architects Tom McBroom and Doug Carrick—along with marquee stars Mark O’Meara, Sir Nick Faldo and Mike Weir—turned Muskoka, Ontario, into one of North America’s hottest golf destinations.
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 […]
Pamper Yourself at Whistler’s Scandinave Spa
July 19, 2012 by
Though thrilling, mountain golf can take its toll. After 18 holes at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler Golf Club—playing our way up the slope of a mountain and through a challenging terrain of chasms, granite outcroppings, rushing creeks, and towering Douglas firs—I have to admit that my game was a little bruised and my body […]
Relive Beatlemania on England’s Golf Coast
July 18, 2012 by
In an earlier stage of my writing life, I authored Our Hearts Went Boom: The Beatles’ Invasion of Canada (Viking Canada). It’s a fun look back at those heady days in the early ‘60s when the popularity of the Fab Four swept the world and, in particular, Canada. So I was interested to learn that […]
