The Royal Montreal Golf Club, Canada
Founded in 1873, Royal Montreal is the oldest golf club in North America, and many of its regulations are charmingly old fashioned in this 21st-century golf world. For example, golfers can wear shorts, but only in combination with high-top socks. Royal Montreal’s 80,000-square-foot clubhouse, tastefully festooned throughout with first-rate golf memorabilia and illustrations, oozes […]
Redtail Golf Club, Canada
The toughest part is finding the place. There are no markers for the front gate. Road signage is minimal. The farm country of lower Ontario, Canada, scarcely provides any sense of identifiable landmarks to visitors. Redtail Golf Club opened in 1992, before it was fashionable to talk about “minimalism” in course design. The name […]
Essex Golf & Country Club, Canada
During the 1920s Donald Ross embarked on a crisscross of North America, laying out new golf courses and remodeling old ones. Of the nearly 400 courses Ross designed and/or remodeled, no more than 11 were in Canada. Two of those are in Windsor, Ontario, a blue-collar town on the south shore of the Detroit […]
