Five Golf Zones to Travel in Canada
How do you define a nice neighbor? One who breaks out the 12-year-old single malt when you drop by instead of the cheap blended stuff? Or doesn’t complain when your split-level ranch becomes home to the world’s loudest garage band? No. A nice neighbor is someone who offers you your choice of tee times on more than 2,000 golf courses. Like Canada.
New Golf Mecca: Prince Edward Island
Forget the doom and gloom. This gotta-play region hasn’t thrown in the golf towel, choosing instead to invest in the game, add new courses and places to stay, and reach out to traveling golfers. It’s where to go now.
Cabot Links: A Great Course?
This Nova Scotia layout has been the most hotly anticipated new course of the year. Following his visit in September, LINKS Senior Writer Thomas Dunne found himself struggling with a simple question. What emerged was a (messy) search for the elusive border separating good from great—as well as a captivating conversation with a fellow linksophile.
Cabot Links, Canada
Cabot Links is off the beaten path, but well worth the trip
Essex Golf & Country Club, Canada
One of only a handful of Donald Ross golf courses built in Canada, this modest gem on the south shore of the Detroit River has stood the test of time
Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge, Canada
Deep in the Canadian Rockies, this 79-year-old showpiece of Stanley Thompson architecture continues to inspire
The Cape Breton Highlands Links, Canada
It’s a rousing journey just to arrive at the place. What follows is a soul-stirring tour of Stanley Thompson’s vivid golf imagination
Great Seaside Golf on Prince Edward Island, Canada
Prince Edward Island (PEI) is connected to the New Brunswick mainland by an eight-mile bridge. For about six months of every year, the maritime lifestyle and pastoral setting draw legions of visitors, many of whom have been coming here for generations to stay at the colorful inns and bed-and-breakfasts near the beaches—and to play the […]
Capilano Golf and Country Club, Canada
A Stanley Thompson masterpiece in Vancouver, Canada
Toronto Golf Club, Canada
The Toronto Golf Club keeps its own cutting garden, furnishing fresh bouquets for dispersal throughout its English manor-style clubhouse. Built in 1913, the clubhouse lies at the end of a half-mile, tree-lined road that winds past a classic Harry Colt-designed course. The club’s wooded grounds lie but a mile off the exit of a […]