Canada’s courses are at their most spectacular in the fall. From Newfoundland to Northern Ontario to British Columbia, five destinations perfect for savouring the sights and other opportunities of the season.
Play Pebble Beach Without Breaking the Bank
August 23, 2012 by
With careful planning, a trip to California’s fabulously beautiful but pricey Monterey Peninsula (where the green fee at Pebble Beach is a whopping $495) is within the means of most golf travellers. Here’s how to organize — and budget for — the golf vacation of a lifetime.
Toronto: Canada’s Great Unsung Golf Destination
August 5, 2012 by
(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 […]
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 […]
