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.
Banff Springs: Monarch of Mountain Golf
July 25, 2012 by Brian Kendall
Filed Under: Alberta, Canada, Destinations, Feature Stories, Golf Courses, Resorts We Love Tagged With: A. W. Tillinghast, Alberta golf, Alister MacKenzie, Banff National Park, Byron Nelson, Canadian Rockies golf, Canmore, Canmore Golf and Curling Club, Capilano Golf and Country Club, Donald Ross, Fairmont Banff Springs Golf Course, Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge, Gene Sarazen, Highlands Links, Kananaskis Resort, Silvertip Golf Course, St. George's Golf and Country Club, Stanley Thompson, Stewart Creek Golf and Country Club
Dakota Dunes Sparks Prairie Golf Boom
July 20, 2012 by Brian Kendall
(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 […]
Filed Under: Canada, Destinations, Feature Stories, Golf Courses, Saskatchewan, Spotlight Destination Tagged With: Chinook Golf Course, Cooke Municipal Golf Course, Dakota Dunes Golf Links, Evergreen Golf Club, Graham Cooke, Moonlake Golf and Country Club, North Battleford Golf and Country Club, Regina Golf Club, Saskatchewan golf, Stanley Thompson, Waskesiu Golf Club, Wayne Carleton, Weyburn Golf Club, Willows Golf and Country Club
Canada’s First True Links Opens in Cape Breton
June 21, 2012 by Brian Kendall
Has a Canadian golf course ever been more eagerly anticipated than Cabot Links? Touted as the country’s first true links, the dramatic seaside layout on Cape Breton’s west coast became an international flagship for the Canadian golf industry with its launch in 2012 and, not incidentally, the savior of Inverness, a former mining town that […]
Filed Under: Canada, Destinations, Feature Stories, Golf Courses, Nova Scotia Tagged With: Bandon Dunes, Bell Bay Golf Club, Ben Cowan-Dewar, Blackhawk Golf Club, Cabot Links, Cape Breton, Cape Breton golf, Dundee Resort and Golf Club, Glenora Inn and Distillery, golf travel, Highlands Links Golf, Inverness, Inverness Raceway, Le Portage Golf Club, Mike Keiser, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia golf, Rod Whitman, Stanley Thompson, The Lakes Golf Club, True Links