Opened downriver from Niagara Falls in 1951, Whirlpool Golf Club is undergoing a multi-year redo aimed at returning the classic Stanley Thompson design to its original glory.
Whirlpool Golf Course Gets a Facelift
Filed Under: Canada, Destinations, Feature Stories, Golf Courses, Niagara Falls, Ontario Tagged With: golf in Niagara, Ian Andrew, Niagara Parks, Stanley Thompson, Whirlpool Golf Course
Chase the Midnight Sun to Yellowknife
March 12, 2023 by Brian Kendall
Yellowknife Golf Club is home to the famous Midnight Classic Golf Tournament, played every June for 75 years under the never-setting subarctic sun.
Filed Under: Amateur golf tournaments, Canada, Destinations, Feature Stories, Northwest Territories Tagged With: golf Northwest Territories, Midnight Sun Tournament, Stanley Thompson, Yellowknife Golf Club
Do Digby Pines Resort Like the Mighty Babe
May 6, 2018 by Brian Kendall
Locals still recall the July day in 1935 when baseball’s mighty Bambino visited Digby Pines Golf Course and brought Stanley Thompson’s daunting par-four 11th hole to its knees.
Filed Under: Canada, Destinations, Feature Stories, Golf Courses, Nova Scotia, Resorts We Love Tagged With: Digby Pines Golf Course, Stanley Thompson
Fall in Love With Golf in Niagara
August 10, 2016 by Brian Kendall
Every year many of the more than 14 million people who visit Niagara Falls stay on to sample the Niagara Peninsula’s wineries, theatre offerings and all-star roster of golf courses by Stanley Thompson, Tom McBroom, Doug Carrick and other top architects.
Filed Under: Canada, Destinations, Feature Stories, Golf Courses, Ontario, Road Trip Tagged With: Doug Carrick, Glen Abbey Golf Club, Hunters Pointe Golf Course, Legends on the Niagara, Niagara golf, Peninsula Lakes Golf Club, Rees Jones, Stanley Thompson, The Rees Jones Course at Grand Niagara, Thundering Waters Golf Club, Tom McBroom, Ussher's Creek, Whirlpool Golf Club
Cobble Beach a Georgian Bay Star Maker
June 12, 2015 by Brian Kendall
Doug Carrick’s acclaimed Cobble Beach Golf Links put the Ontario tourist town of Owen Sound on the Canadian golf map with its launch in 2007.
Filed Under: Destinations, Feature Stories, Golf Courses, Muskoka and Georgian Bay, Ontario, Resorts We Love Tagged With: Cobble Beach Golf Links, Doug Carrick, Legacy Ridge Golf Club, Ontario golf, Stanley Thompson