Cottage country golf favourite South Muskoka is a shining example of how a closely connected trio of outstanding architects—Stanley Thompson, Robbie Robinson and Doug Carrick—has helped keep the Canadian game fun and fair for golfers since the 1920s.
Thompson to Robinson to Carrick to You
June 6, 2015 by Brian Kendall
Filed Under: Editor's Notebook, Golf Courses Tagged With: Angus Glen Golf Club, Bayview Golf and Country Club, Brudenell River Golf Course, Canadian golf course design, Capilano Golf Club, Doug Carrick, Greywolf Golf Course, Highlands Links Golf Course, Muskoka Bay Club, Robbie Robinson, South Muskoka Curling and Golf Club, St. George's Golf and Country Club, Stanley Thompson, Westmount Golf and Country Club, Windermere Golf and Country Club
Ontario Resort Golf’s Front Nine
July 25, 2014 by Brian Kendall
Taboo’s ruggedly gorgeous 7th. Cobble Beach’s magnificent 17th. A survey of acclaimed Ontario resort golf courses and the signature holes that helped make their reputations.
Filed Under: Canada, Destinations, Feature Stories, Golf Courses, Muskoka and Georgian Bay, Ontario, Road Trip Tagged With: Cobble Beach Golf Links, Collingwood golf, Deerhurst Highlands Golf Course, Georgian Bay golf, Hockley Valley Golf Club, Monterra Golf Course, Muskoka golf, Ontario golf, Owen Sound golf, Rocky Crest Golf Club, Smuggler's Glen Golf Course, Taboo, The Rock Golf Club, Thousand Islands golf, Windermere Golf and Country Club
Challenge Muskoka’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Fairways
July 23, 2012 by Brian Kendall
(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 […]
Filed Under: Canada, Destinations, Feature Stories, Golf Courses, Muskoka and Georgian Bay, Ontario Tagged With: Bigwin Island Golf Club, Deerhurst Highlands Golf Course, Deerhurst Resort, Diamond in the Ruff, Doug Carrick, Huntsville Downs Golf and Country Club, Lake Joseph Club, Mark O'Meara Course at Grandview, Muskoka Bay, Muskoka golf, Muskoka Highlands Golf Links, Nick Faldo, North Granite Ridge, Oak Bay Golf and Country Club, Rocky Crest Golf Club, Ron Garl, Shawn Watters, South Muskoka Curling and Golf Club, Taboo Resort, The Rock Golf Club, Tom McBroom, Windermere Golf and Country Club