Editor’s Notebook

Brian Kendall, Editor, Canadian Golf Traveller (Image: Sharon McAuley)

Casa de Campo’s Year of Living Dangerously

Long the Caribbean’s premier golf resort, Casa de Campo has temporarily closed Pete Dye’s iconic Teeth of the Dog course for a major restoration. But do the property’s two other Dye courses pack enough punch to keep the tourists coming? … [Read More...]

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Spotlight Destination

Olympic View Golf Club (Image: Olympic View Golf Club)

Happy Trails on Vancouver Island

Wending through some of British Columbia’s most stunningly beautiful landscapes, the Vancouver Island Golf Trail offers 11 top courses and a six-night, six-round deal that’s hard to resist.

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Feature Stories

The first green of Pinehurst No. 2 golf course, looking back towards the Pinehurst Resort Golf Club House. (Image: Pinehurst Resort)

Pinehurst Reigns Supreme in U.S.A. Golf

Host of four U.S. Opens, Pinehurst Resort added a Tom Doak design in 2024, with two more 18-hole layouts on the way. And helping fuel the buzz is the return of the World Golf Hall of Fame following a long exile in Florida. … [Read More...]

An aerial view of Webbs Reserve Golf Club and wetlands making up many of the water hazards. (Image: Webbs Reserve Golf Club)

Webbs Reserve Launches in Punta Gorda

Defined by water hazards on all 18 holes, the new Webbs Reserve Golf Club by Nicklaus Design meanders through the coastal plains and wetlands that characterize the south Florida community of Punta Gorda. … [Read More...]

An aerial view of Whirlpool Golf Course, overlooking the Niagara River in Niagara Falls Ontario. (Image: Niagara Parks)

Whirlpool Golf Course Gets a Facelift

Opened downriver from Niagara Falls in 1951, Whirlpool Golf Course is undergoing a multi-year redo aimed at returning the classic Stanley Thompson design to its original glory.  … [Read More...]

A man tees off on the par three 7th Hole at Quivira Golf Club in Los Cabos, with the ocean to the left and the green tucked into elevated sand dunes. (Image: Quivira Golf Club)

Quivira Los Cabos Celebrates 10th Birthday

Quivira Golf Club, a US$40-million Jack Nicklaus signature design on Mexico’s Baja Peninsula, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Get ready for clifftop ocean views and a heart-thumping 1.2-kilometre thrill ride up the side of a mountain. … [Read More...]

View of Cabot Revelstoke golf course with snow-capped mountains in the distance. (Image: Harris Kalinka)

Cabot Revelstoke Set to Rock Golf World

Why Rod Whitman's Cabot Pacific course at Cabot Revelstoke, scheduled to launch in 2026, is the most eagerly anticipated Canadian mountain golf design in almost a century. … [Read More...]

aerial view of the Rees Jones redesigned Monster Golf Club at World Resorts Catskills in New York State. (Image: World Resorts Catskills)

Monster Golf Club Signals Rebirth of Catskills

The opening of Monster Golf Club, a Rees Jones design at Resorts World Catskills, is helping fuel the renaissance of the famous Borscht Belt, where top comedians once brought the laughs to vacationers between rounds of golf. … [Read More...]

Aerial view of a golf hole at Black Desert Golf Course in Utah, showing a dramatic sky and red rocks in the background. (Image: Black Desert Golf Course)

Black Desert a Grand Finale for Weiskopf

Black Desert, Tom Weiskopf’s final golf course design, is an acclaimed beauty that twists through red rock plateaus and ancient lava fields in southwestern Utah. The centrepiece of a US$2 billion resort complex, Weiskopf's course is home to new PGA and LPGA tournaments. … [Read More...]

Golf architects Doug Carrick and Tom McBroom onsite during construction at the new Ocean Course at Fox Harb'r Resort in Nova Scotia. (Image: Tim Gallant/Siren Communications)

McBroom and Carrick Team Up at Fox Harb’r

Long Canada’s top golf architects, Tom McBroom and Doug Carrick have joined forces to design two upcoming new courses at Fox Harb’r Resort and Spa, the oceanfront Nova Scotia retreat built on the profits of the Tim Hortons fast-food empire. … [Read More...]

Aerial view of Tidewater Golf Club in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. (Image: Tidewater Golf Club)

Myrtle Beach Rules in South Carolina Golf

Stacked with acclaimed designs by Tom Fazio, Mike Strantz, Tom Doak and other top architects, Myrtle Beach dominates Golfweek’s new listing of South Carolina’s best public-play courses. … [Read More...]

Two golfers teeing off through a narrow shute of trees at Black Bear Ridge golf course near Belleville Ontario Canada. (Image: Black Bear Ridge Resort)

Black Bear Ridge: An Eastern Ontario Surprise

A mainstay of golf in Eastern Ontario, Black Bear Ridge quickly evolved from a rich man’s passion project into an enduring Canadian success story. And coming soon: a $1.54 billion residential expansion. … [Read More...]

A golf cart with golfers drives towards the ever-present midnight sun during the Yellowknife Golf Club Midnight Classic Golf Tournament. (Image: Yellowknife Golf Club)

Chase the Midnight Sun to Yellowknife

Founded in 1948 by golf-mad miners, bush pilots and other hardy Northerners, Yellowknife Golf Club is home to the Midnight Classic Golf Tournament, played every June under the never-setting subarctic sun. … [Read More...]

aerial view of famous par-three golf hole at the TPC Scottsdale Stadium Course. (Image: TPC Scottsdale)

Tee Off Where Arizona Golf Came of Age

Marketed as the Valley of the Sun, the twin cities of Phoenix and Scottsdale are home to more than 200 of Arizona’s 300 golf courses, including the groundbreaking TPC Stadium Course, host of the famously raucous Waste Management Phoenix Open. … [Read More...]

Golfer Arnold Palmer with Canadian Open trophy

How the Canadian Open Gave Birth to a King

Newly married and almost flat broke, Arnold Palmer arrived in Toronto for the 1955 Canadian Open desperate for success. How victory at Weston Golf and Country Club launched the rise of the golfer who would be "King." … [Read More...]

La Réserve Golf Links in Mauritius

Why Golf In Mauritius Is Worth the Jet Lag

It's a long way to Mauritius, but a roster of top courses—including La Réserve Golf Links, a recently launched Louis Oosthuizen-Peter Matkovich co-design—is drawing golfers to this Indian Ocean isle. … [Read More...]

The exclusive private golf club at Castiglion-del-Bosco in the Tuscany region of Italy

Pursuing Par and La Dolce Vita in Tuscany

A stay at five-star Rosewood Castiglion del Bosco includes exclusive access to the Club at Castiglion del Bosco, a private course designed by Tom Weiskopf that twists through Tuscan hills, valleys and vineyards. … [Read More...]

The Sands Golf Course at Gamble Sands (Image: Gamble Sands)

David McLay Kidd Redux at Gamble Sands

Scottish architect David McLay Kidd has returned to Gamble Sands resort in central Washington State to build a sister 18-hole layout to his acclaimed Sands Course. … [Read More...]

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